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RIO – In his first testimony after his arrest, Governor Luiz Fernando Pezão denied receiving a bribe and used illicit money to pay for his personal expenses. He indicated that he is moving a personal account, managed with his own recipes, and not the one presented by the federal police, which is disabled and set to zero.
"Nothing to hide"
Pezão also told the federal police that he had not been involved in fundraising for his campaign for governorship in 2014. According to him , the task would have been for Secretary of Works Hudson Braga. In the donation of the doleiro Álvaro Novis, a tip supposedly paid as box 2 by Odebrecht is also mentioned that year. In return, the company would have won important contracts with the government.
The testimony, accompanied by the governor's lawyer, Flávio Mirza, at the PF headquarters in Praça Mauá, lasted about three hours. Mirza said that Pezão, if he wished, had the constitutional right to remain silent. But according to the lawyer, he chose to speak because he understood that "there is nothing to hide".
One of the main arguments of the defense of Pezão is to demonstrate, with the delivery of extracts, that the governor used personal accounts and money from his products to pay his own expenses.
– The delegate presents a Pezão account almost locked to claim that the governor was kept on a tip. However, such an account has been disabled for some time. Pezão uses another account to pay for his personal expenses. This is an error in the investigation, "Mirza said.
Pezão, according to Mirza, was calm during the testimony and refused to answer any questions.
Carlos Emanuel Carvalho Miranda, former operator of Sérgio Cabral's bribe, argues that, in addition to a monthly allowance of 150,000 rand, paid by the former governor between 2007 and 2014, 13th salary and two bonuses R $ 1 million, Pezão would also have received as a gift a system of
Home Theater
R $ 300,000, settled at home in Piraí and banked by High Control. The company belongs to brothers Luis Fernando and César Augusto Craveiro de Amorim, who were part of the consortium of the Arc de Rio Metropolitano, completed under the Pezão government.
In the testimony given to the PF, the Governor stated that the
Home Theater
was a birthday present offered by Cabral. According to him, it would not be appropriate to ask the Governor of Rio at the time a bill for the equipment.
– Pezão confirms the installation of the system, but guarantees that it is Cabral's gift. I did not know the relationship with the company. For him, Cabral was a wealthy friend, "said lawyer Flávio Mirza.
The governor admits to being a friend of entrepreneurs Cláudio Fernandes Vidal and Luiz Alberto Gomes Gonçalves, members of J.R.O Pavement, also prisoners. According to Miranda, Pezão would have received a bribe of one million R $.
– J.R.O s really settled in the south of Fluminense, but at the time, Pezão was mayor. And the company already had contracts with the state government, at the time of Governor Marcello Alencar (
already dead
– said Mirza.
On Thursday, the defense of Marcelo Santos Amorim, suspected of transferring funds of illicit origin to the governor, denied his participation in corrupt actions. The lawyer of Cesar Amorim, High Control, said the company had benefited from the services provided at Pezão's home.
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