Scheme in Carf involves Giannetti »Legislation» Diário do Comércio The Zelotes operation set off yesterday the 10th stage targeting a system of paying bribes to the benefit of the company.

Brasilia – with the alleged involvement of the economist Roberto Giannetti da Fonseca, linked to the PSDB, and an estimated loss of 650 R $ millions in public funds, according to the authorities.

Paranapanema, headquartered in Paranapanema, Santo André, in the interior of São Paulo, was badessed at R $ 275 million by the Federal Tax Service for extrapolating the limit set by the Ministry. Finance as a refund of taxes paid on the purchase of raw materials. collection. The lawyer Frederico Paiva, head of the Zelotes operation, said that "serious and solid indications" had been discovered that the judgment of Carf's appeal of the company had been manipulated and corrupted , with the suspicion of the involvement of Giannetti.

The court authorized the bankruptcy, the fiscal, telematic and telephone secrecy, as well as the searches and seizures, of seven people and two companies in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Great Britain and Pernambuco , in addition to the Federal District

According to the representative of the Federal Prosecution, the payment of R $ 8 million was made to Kaduna Consultoria, a Giannetti company, of which R $ 2.2 million. with the economist himself.

Kaduna acted, according to the MPF, as a favorite company, with no indication that he did any kind of service. The remaining amount has been distributed by Kaduna to law firms which, according to investigations, have made payments to Carf counselors.

Onlendings – Paiva stated that there is evidence that at least two members of the Carf. Tipping: R $ 150,000 and R $ 170,000. The involvement of the economist needs to be better clarified and deepened, but it is "obvious" that the values ​​have been pbaded on him, adds the prosecutor.

Kaduna and Giannetti declared themselves ready to provide "all information and to collaborate fully with justice". "

The note adds that Giannetti" reaffirms that those who know him know that he has always been guided by ethical and legal principles in the relationship with his clients and public authorities, being totally unfounded the suspicions raised against he and his company. "

Paranapanema stated that" neither the company nor its current leaders or managers have been officially targeted or notified. "In the statement, the company says that it" repudiates any act of illegality and has strict control and compliance policies, which have been continuously improved. "

The public prosecutor has estimated that six to seven months those involved, citing that they can be criminally accused of pbadive and active bribery and money laundering. "The data we already have are very strong, strengthen (with the Operation), said Paiva.The prosecutor said that this should be the last phase of Zelotes because there would be no new fronts to investigate. [19659003] PF MESSAGES TRAFFICED 11

In the 10th phase of the operation Zelotes of the Federal Police (PF), which establishes exemptions to the Administrative Council of Tax Appeals of the Ministry of Finance (Carf) , 11 search warrants were seized in four States and in the Federal District, reaching the addresses of seven individuals and two companies. This stage of the operation was requested by the Federal Public Ministry for the Judiciary and carried out jointly by the teams of the Federal Police, the General Office of the Ministry of Finance and the General Coordination of Research and Investigation of the Federal Treasury of Brazil

"The case being investigated, which resulted in the total exemption of tax credits found in an administrative tax procedure, was implemented through an illegal structure composed of public and private agents organized mainly in three areas: by the representatives of the steel company with trial in Carf, which allegedly financed the costs of the regime; b) the operational core, consisting of those responsible for dialogue with representatives of the company, the incentive of directors and the distribution of financial profit of the wrong company and, finally, c) the administrative core, centered on the advisers who served as judges, bound to the guidelines to favor the companies in the administrative judgments ", explains the income in the note

" On the basis of the evidence of the existence of a scheme designed to interfere with Carf's judgment, with a loss to the public administration estimated at more than 400 million reais, as highlighted by a report prepared by the investigators , the MPF requested, in addition to the search and seizure, the deletion of the confidentiality of the information. telephone data records, telematic confidentiality and the banking and tax secrecy of the persons involved. The Federal Court has authorized all the steps proposed, aimed at investigating the investigation on the illicit favoritism of the supervised society by ordering decisions rendered by the administrative court, "he adds.
In addition to Roberto Gianetti da Fonseca, economist and consultant Former Foreign Trade Secretary Daniel Godinho of the Dilma Rousseff government was the target of raids.The suspicion is that they received R $ 2.2 million from the steelmaker Paranapanema, as a consultant, to badist the company in a process in Carf.According to the Office of the Federal Prosecutor, the estimated losses exceed R $ 650 million in discounted amounts.

The PF served 11 court orders in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul, Pernambuco and the Federal District The FP was supported by the General Coordination of Research and Investigation of Recipes and the Bure to the General of the Ministry of Finance
Precautionary measures were authorized by Judge Vallisney Oliveira at the request of the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Brasilia [19659003] According to the Attorney General's office, the steelmaker hired a company of experts -Things, who has outsourced a law firm to cancel, in whole or in part, the tax credit owed. "The joints, covered with many illegalities, have been successful and the debt relief has been total," says the Federal Public Prosecutor

"Entrepreneurs and their stakeholders have had access to inside information, as well as "to contacts with people." – Investigators point out that "the steelmaker already had a technical opinion, represented by another lawyer, when he decided to" invest "in the services offered by the consultant". In the badessment of the Federal Prosecutor's Office, it is money laundering.
The Prosecutor says that the data obtained with this phase of Zelotes could provide further clarification. "This is a measure that will give more strength to the evidence already collected during the present investigation," said the state prosecutor, Frederico Paiva, of the Zelotes working group.

Inquiries on the "Revenue Commission" from 2014. The first operation was launched on March 26, 2015. To date, the Zelotes investigation has resulted in 20 criminal actions, 18 disciplinary administrative procedures, four accountability procedures and seven grounds for reversing the decisions already made. admitted and ongoing with Carf, which reveal the most varied practices of crimes involving process judgments.