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Eduardo Paes, former mayor of Rio de Janeiro, had a heart attack Sunday morning in Campinas, in the interior of São Paulo, and was taken to Albert Einstein Hospital, in the southern area of the capital. Paes, even though he was sick, was stable afterwards.
Albert Einstein's press office confirmed Paes' admission to the hospital and said he would perform tests, but did not publish a medical report before the last update of this report.
Eduardo Paes was mayor of Rio de Janeiro for two terms. He took office for the first time in 2009 and was re-elected in 2012. He remained in office until the end of 2016.
In the 2018 elections, Paes applied. to the governor of Rio de Janeiro by the DEM, but was beaten in the second round by Wilson Witzel (PSC). After the defeat, he declared that he did not want a political post and that it would come back to private initiative.
Last Tuesday (22), the judiciary of Rio de Janeiro ordered, as a precautionary measure, the blocking of badets of a maximum amount of R $ 7,434,466.51 per year. former mayor and six people for alleged fraud. for emergency medical services on World Youth Day in 2013.
The complaint lodged against the mayor by the Rio Prosecutor's Office (MPRJ) was accepted by Judge Ana Helena Mota Lima Valle, of the 26th Criminal Court of the capital. Paes, moreover, in addition to responding for a crime, is also accused by the deputy of the mayor's liability crime.
The former mayor said that the rent of ambulances by the city of Rio had been planned to meet a request of the organizing committee of World Youth Day and to guarantee the service to the population.
On May 10, the former mayor also became defendant in an administrative misconduct alleging that the Municipality of Rio had applied, without offer, $ 1.6 million to the religious event Marcha Para Jesus in 2012. [19659009] Paes said that it was only a matter of receiving an action and that, in the "course of the process, it will be clear that the Municipality of Rio has always supported events aimed at stimulating religious tourism in the city "- in this case an evangelical event – discrimination of belief or faith".
