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The Minister of Labor, Helton Yomura, of the PTB, resigned. He began the day as the target of a federal police operation, dismissed by Supreme Minister Edson Fachin. Yomura is under investigation as part of the Spurious operation, which determines the grant of the registration of a union in exchange for the payment of the gratuity.
Federal police searched for documents and evidence in Helton Yomura's office at the Ministry of Labor. At 7:30 am, at a hotel in Brasilia, Yomura was informed that he had been dismissed from his position as Minister of Labor and that he was also prohibited from attending the Ministry and from 39 have contacts with other people being investigated. The agents also searched the hotel, and at his other address in Rio.
Yomura went to the Federal Police in Brasília, still in the morning, to testify, but he was silent. The investigators confirmed that he had also refused to hand over the passwords of two seized, personal and functional cell phones.
The PWB has been responsible for the Ministry of Labor since 2016. Strategic positions are approved by Roberto Jefferson, a former MP and National Party Chair.
Jefferson tried unsuccessfully to name his daughter, Cristiane Brasil, Minister. She had to withdraw her candidacy because she had been sentenced in labor lawsuits and the case became a case before the Supreme Court. Helton Yomura was the solution
Federal police say that "he was sent to the post of Minister of Labor with the aim of allowing the criminal enterprise to continue" and that he he sought to make possible "the interference of Cristiane Brasil Robert Jefferson's Offenses at the Organ.It seems that it is nothing more than a leader of the PTB Chiefs", according to l & # 39; investigation.
The Wilson Filho and Jovair Arantes party members also have political influence in the ministry. Jovair's nephew, Leonardo Arantes, became number two in the hierarchy of the ministry. All are studied in Operation Spurious Register. Leonardo was arrested and exonerated in June.
Thursday, the minister was dismissed. His chief of staff, Julio de Souza Bernardes, was arrested. The Ministry's command posts are empty.
The third phase of the operation also fulfilled warrants in the House. The officers searched documents in the office of MP Nelson Marquezelli, also of the PTB, who accompanied the search because he was already in the office at 6 o'clock. "Nothing to fear."
His aide, Jonas Lima, was arrested, suspected of acting illegally at the Labor Relations Secretariat of the Ministry to promote unions.
In the investigation of frauds in the granting of registrations to the unions, he was arrested in Rio de Janeiro, where he was arrested,
The Federal Police requested research outside the Ministry, to the Address of the Minister of the Government Department, Carlos Marun, Federal Police, and the Federal Police said that it was a privileged entity with political links. was quoted in messages from the investigation, who spoke in "proceedings of interest to Minister Marun." PF wanted to know if he could be related to fraud.
The Chief of Marun's cabinet, Viviane Melo, was heard by federal police and denied the irregularities. also denied any involvement in this project: "I have never spoken to this department's employees about the requirements of a union, personally, by phone or by any other means. However, unfortunately, the fact that trade unionists of Mato Grosso do Sul, in the context of a public meeting, planned and published, was the subject of a routine trial, became a reason for the behavior of my honor. "[19659006] In a letter to President Michel Temer, Helton Yomura stated that he" had never respected the irregularities "and" with the outbreak of the operation, he removed all the people involved, opened a number of business and suspended union registration proceedings "
Yomura said that he had resigned to" prevent the Ministry of Labor from being in a state of distrust. "
The Palace of the Planalto reported on the evening of this Thursday that the Minister of the Civil Chamber, Eliseu Padilha temporarily took the Ministry of Labor.
Defense of Helt Yomura stated that he did not know what he was accused of, that he had denied any wrongdoing, that he had cleared the police and opened investigations. [19659002] Roberto Jefferson, the president of the PTB, said that he had not participated any ploy the Ministry of Labor.
Cristiane Brasil, daughter of Jefferson, said that she hopes to complete the investigation as soon as possible to prove that she is innocent.
Jovair Arantes said he hoped
Jonas Lima's defense denied that the client acted unlawfully or had a connection with union records
Wilson Filho asserted that his innocence will be proven.
The defense of Julio Bernardes stated that the client gave all explanations to the police and that he did not commit any illegal act.
Vivianne Melo said that there was no illegality.
We can not get in touch with the defense of Leonardo Arantes and Adriano José Lima Bernardo
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