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The former mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, and pastor Silas Malafaia became defendants due to administrative improprieties. According to the complaint, the city administration applied without tender $ 1.6 million to the March for Jesus religious event in 2012.
The decision of January 10, released Thursday (24), is the judge Mirela Erbisti, of the 3rd Court of the Public Treasury of Rio, which was accused by the public prosecutor's office.
In the ruling, the magistrate points out that "there is sufficient evidence of the participation of each of the accused in the practice of the impotent act". Paes, according to her, "should ensure the proper use of public funds", as well as "the former secretary of the Civil House.
Malafaia, says the judge in the decision, "would have been locupletado with the event, the president and legal representative of Comerj, he is the direct beneficiary of the impotent act". "The promotion of his personal name and badociation has also contributed to the seemingly irregular spending of the municipality."
The March for Jesus is an international event that brings together the faithful of various evangelical religions in a party led by electric trios bringing together hundreds of thousands of people.
Paes, then mayor, alongside Pastor Silas Malafaia, at an event organized in 2016 – Photo: Alexandre Durão / G1
The former mayor Eduardo Paes said that it was only about the recipe and that, at the During the process, it will be clear that the Municipality of Rio has always supported events aimed at increasing religious tourism in the city, "in this case an evangelical event", "without any discrimination of belief or faith". [19659015] Paes said he was convinced that justice would be done and that the action would be rejected. lined that the trial does not indicate any act of corruption.
Silas Malafaia said that it was "religious persecution", that the money was only released after the presentation of the program, that the March for Jesus was organized to promote peace and that all documents and notes of the event were presented.
G1 and TV Globo could not get in touch with the other people mentioned.
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