Developments in Operation Car Wash
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A series of developments in Operation Car Wash have occurred since it was launched in March 2014. These are new investigations that have been conducted by the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Attorney General's Office and the Federal Police from documents collected from search warrants, depositions about coercive conduct [pt], and documents and testimonials obtained in cases of sovereign immunity.
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2015[edit]
Operation Politeia[edit]
On 14 July 2015, the Federal Police started the Operação Politeia (Operation Politeia), by issuing 53 search and seizure warrants in the houses of politicians involved in the Petrobras corruption scheme.[1] After searches at 40 addresses, in seven different states (including the Federal District), the Federal Police seized three luxury cars at the Casa da Dinda mansion (property of Fernando Collor de Mello)[2] and R$ 3.67 million in cash.[3]
Imprisonment of Delcídio do Amaral[edit]
On November 25, 2015, the Federal Police arrested Senator Delcídio do Amaral for trying to impede the plea bargain[clarification needed (see talk)] of former Petrobras director Nestor Cerveró [pt][lower-alpha 1] about the senator's alleged participation in irregularities in the purchase of Pasadena Refining System in the state of Texas.[6] Police said in 2015 that they had found evidence of $15 million in bribes related to the purchase of 50 percent of the refinery.[7]
According to investigators, Delcídio offered Cerveró an opportunity to escape[clarification needed (see talk)], so that he wouldn't take immunity, which, for the authorities, was an attempt to obstruct justice. A recording was made by Cerveró's son, showing the Senator's intention to interfere in the investigations and offer the former executive escape so that he would not make the report. In addition to Delcídio do Amaral and his chief of staff, two others were also arrested in the affair; namely banker André Esteves, then CEO of BTG Pactual, and Nestor Cerveró's defense lawyer Edson Ribeiro.
Operation Crátons[edit]
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Operation Vidas Secas[edit]
On December 11, 2015, federal police launched Operation Dry Lives as an offshoot of Operation Car Wash. It investigated invoice padding for works on the São Francisco River. There were 32 court orders, 24 of which were for search and seizure, four for temporary arrest and four for coercive conduct. The president of Construtora OAS, Elmar Varjão, held in São Paulo, and executives of Coesa Engenharia, Barbosa Melo and Galvão Engenharia, were arrested in the operation. According to investigations, entrepreneurs used shell companies to divert at least $ 200 million[clarification needed]. The value of the investigated contracts is R $ 680 million. The Federal Police also pointed to the participation of JD Consultoria, a company belonging to former Minister José Dirceu, arrested in Operation Lava Jato. According to the Federal Police's regional superintendent in Pernambuco, Marcelo Diniz, Galvão Engenharia's transfer of R $ 586,000 to JD Consultoria was found.[8]
Operation Catilinárias[edit]
On December 15, 2015, the Federal Police launched a new deployment of Operation Car Wash, dubbed "Operation Catilinárias", serving search and seizure warrants at the official residence of Deputy Eduardo Cunha (PMDB - Rio de Janeiro), in Brasília. Warrants were also served at Rio de Janeiro addresses of the PMDB. Police also carried out a search and arrest warrants at the homes of Federal Deputy Aníbal Gomes (PMDB -Ceará) and Minister of Science and Technology Celso Pansera.
Others involved in the operation are Senator Edison Lobão (PMDB - Maranhão), former Minister of Mines and Energy; Henrique Eduardo Alves (PMDB - Rio Grande do Norte), then Minister of Tourism and Sérgio Machado, former president of Transpetro indicated by PMDB. The main purpose of the Federal Police was to prevent destruction of evidence.[9] Documents were seized in Recife, Brejão, Agreste, and Petrolina, in Sertão. All seized material was sent to Recife and then to Brasilia.[10]
Operation Sangue Negro[edit]
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2016[edit]
Operation O Recebedor[edit]
On February 26, 2016, Operation O Recebedor ("The Receiver") investigated an alleged bribery and fraud scheme in the construction of the North-South Railway [pt; es] and West-East Railway [pt; de] based on evidence gathered in Operation Car Wash. In all, the Federal Police served seven coercive conduct [pt] mandates and 44 search and arrest warrants in six states—Paraná, Maranhão, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais, Goiás—and the Federal District. The operation, by the Federal Prosecutor's Office and the Federal Police in Goiás, targeted contracts signed between the state-owned company Valec S/A [pt], responsible for railway construction, and contractors investigated in the oil industry, such as Odebrecht, Brazilian industrial conglomerate Queiroz Galvão [pt], UTC Engenharia [pt], Grupo OAS [pt; es], Mendes Júnior [pt], Grupo Camargo Corrêa [pt], among others. According to the Federal Police, the contractors made regular payments through mock contracts to a law firm and to two other companies nominated by Juquinha, former president of Valec. The companies acted as a front to hide the illicit origin of the money. All were charged with passive corruption and money laundering.
The name of the operation refers to the defense presented by one of the targets in a previous investigation called the Trem Pagador ("Pay Train").[clarification needed See here.] In it, the defense alleged that "if the train was the paymaster, the target was not the recipient".[11] According to the Public Prosecutor's Office in Goiás, Camargo Corrêa admitted having paid R$ 800,000 to Juquinha. In that one state alone, the authorities estimated that the scheme diverted R$ 630 million from the public coffer.[12]
Operation Xepa[edit]
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Operation Janus[edit]
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Operation Custo Brasil[edit]
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Operation Tabela Periódica[edit]
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Operation Saqueador[edit]
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Operation Sépsis[edit]
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Operation Pripyat[edit]
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Operation Irmandade[edit]
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Operation Deflexão[edit]
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Operation Descontrole[edit]
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2017[edit]
Operation Cui Bono?[edit]
On January 13, 2017, the Federal Police launched Operation "Cui Bono?", an offshoot of Operação Catilinárias. They found a cell phone at Eduardo Cunha's home that contained, among other things, messages exchanged between the former deputy and Geddel Vieira Lima. Geddel served as Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Caixa Econômica Federal between 2011 and 2013, a period investigated by the Federal Police.[13] The name of the operation, cui bono, means, in Latin, who benefits?
Operation Eficiência[edit]
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Operation Mascate[edit]
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Operation Leviatã[edit]
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Operation Tolypeutes[edit]
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Operation Satélites[edit]
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Operation O Quinto do Ouro[edit]
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Operation Fratura Exposta[edit]
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Operation Satélites 2[edit]
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Operation Patmos[edit]
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Operation De Volta aos Trilhos[edit]
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Operation Ratatouille[edit]
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Operation Cifra Oculta[edit]
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Operation Manus[edit]
On June 6, 2017, the Federal Police arrested former Minister of Tourism Henrique Eduardo Alves. Former Deputy Eduardo Cunha, already in prison in Curitiba, was the target of a new warrant. Both men are from the PMDB and were president of the Chamber of Deputies. The operation investigated active and passive corruption and money laundering in the construction of Arena das Dunas in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte with a surcharge that reached $ 77 million.[clarification needed] Thirty-three warrants were served, five for pre-trial detention, six for coercive conduct and 22 for search and seizure in Rio Grande do Norte and Paraná. According to PF, bribes were identified through official donations between 2012 and 2014, as well as donations to the 2014 campaign for personal benefit. [14]
Operation Barão Gatuno[edit]
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Operation Ponto Final[edit]
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Operation Rio 40 graus[edit]
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Operation Gotham City[edit]
On August 9, 2017, the Federal Police carried out a new operation, in an offshoot of Operação Ponto Final, to arrest two construction entrepreneurs suspected of hiding the assets of the former president of the Rio de Janeiro Department of Road Transport, Rogério Onofre. He was accused of receiving R$43 million from bus entrepreneurs. Businessman Nuno Coelho, known as "Batman", was arrested in Curitiba. Guilherme Vialle, "Robin", was already abroad and featured in an Interpol red notice. Both are partners of VCG Empreendimentos Imobiliários and Koios Participações. According to the investigations, Onofre and his wife, Dayse Neves, bought 11 properties that belonged to the businessmen, but declared only 50% of the real cost of the acquisitions in the registry.[15]
Operation Unfair Play[edit]
On September 5, 2017, the Federal Police and the Federal Public Prosecution Service carried out an operation to investigate a vote-buying scheme for the election of Rio de Janeiro as host of the 2016 Olympic Games. The operation involved bribes for Rio de Janeiro government contracts. Two preventive arrest warrants and eleven search and seizure warrants were served in the cities of Rio de Janeiro, Nova Iguaçu (RJ) and Paris, France. The operation involved international cooperation with France and the United States. One of the targets of search and seizure was the president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB), Carlos Arthur Nuzman, investigated for allegedly paying a bribe of US$ 1.5 million. Tuition fees were paid in cash, dummy contracts, personal expenses, and money transfer. Those arrested were investigated for corruption, money laundering and organized crime.[16]
On October 5, in the second phase of Operation Unfair Play, Nuzman was arrested by the Federal Police.[17] According to the Federal Prosecutor's Office (MPF), Nuzman attempted to regularize 16 one-kilo gold bars after the first phase of the operation.[18] Also according to the MPF, over the last ten years Nuzman's equity has grown 457 percent, part of this money going to an offshore tax haven in the British Virgin Islands.[18] Lawyer Nélio Machado, who represents Nuzman, said the arrest "is a harsh measure and is not usual within due process."[18]
Operation Tesouro Perdido[edit]
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Operation Cadeia Velha[edit]
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Operation C'est fini[edit]
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Operation Baixo Augusta[edit]
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2018[edit]
Operation Jabuti[edit]
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Operation Descarte[edit]
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Operation Pão Nosso[edit]
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Operation Skala[edit]
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Operation contra ex-diretor da Dersa/SP[edit]
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Operation Tira Teima[edit]
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Operation Rizoma[edit]
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Operation contra parlamentares federais do PP[edit]
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Operation Câmbio, Desligo[edit]
On May 3, 2018, a new operation served 49 pre-trial (preventive detention) and four temporary arrest warrants in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul, and the Federal District, as well as Paraguay and Uruguay.[19] The main target was Darío Messer, who has been called the most influential money changer in the country. Messer is also a Paraguayan citizen.[20] The operation was supported by Uruguayan authorities and aimed to dismantle a money laundering, currency evasion and organized crime network. The suspects were part of a system called Bank Drop, in which moneymakers remitted funds abroad through an action known as the "cable dollar," a method in which money did not pass through central bank-regulated financial institutions. According to police, some 3,000 offshore companies in 52 tax haven countries handled about $ 1.6 billion (or $ 5.6 billion by 2018).[21]
Operation Pedra no Caminho[edit]
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Operation Ressonância[edit]
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Operation Hashtag[edit]
On August 3, 2018, the Federal Police (MPF) began a new operation, against money laundering suspects allegedly linked to former Governor Sérgio Cabral, as an offshoot of Lava Jato's Operation Efficiency. Banker Eduardo Plass was suspected of using offshore companies and a Rio South Zone jewelry store to launder bribe money. The businessman and two of his minority partners were the subject of temporary arrest warrants, and there were also four arrest warrants. He and the two partners are suspected of transferring about 90 million reais in the scheme. Plass was president of Banco Pactual and a majority shareholder of TAG Bank in Panama,[22] and the asset manager OPUS.[23] Police investigations pointed to money laundering and currency evasion crimes led by Eduardo Plass. Former billionaire Eike Batista was arrested based on information given by Plass, then released back to the house arrest where he had already been since 2017.[24] The scheme consisted of receiving cash from the Ipanema jewelry directors, and then transferring funds abroad from an account under their control to an offshore shell company and transferring the amounts to the jewelry group holding company.[25]
Operation S.O.S.[edit]
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Operation Marakata[edit]
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2019[edit]
Operation Descontaminação[edit]
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Operation Patron[edit]
Federal police announced Operation Patron on November 19, 2019. Thirty-seven court orders were issued by the 7th Federal Criminal Court of Rio de Janeiro, in the City of Rio de Janeiro, in Armação dos Búzios, Greater Sao Paulo and in Ponta Pora, Mato Grosso do Sul. Because some targets lived in Paraguay and the United States of America an Interpol red notice was authorized by the courts.[26]
Abroad[edit]
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See also[edit]
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References[edit]
Notes
Citations
- ↑ "PF faz busca nas casas de Collor e de outros parlamentares; Senado reage" [FP make searches in the houses of Collor and other parliamentarians; Senate reacts] (in português). O Estado de S. Paulo. 14 July 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
- ↑ "Collor classifica operação da PF como 'invasiva e arbitrária'" [Collor labels FP's operation as 'invasive and arbitrary'] (in português). O Estado de S. Paulo. 14 July 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
- ↑ "PF apreende R$ 3,67 milhões na Operação Politéia" [FP aprehends R$ 3.67 million in the Operation Politeia] (in português). O Estado de S. Paulo. 14 July 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
- ↑ Petrobras, "Organograma: Conheça o Organograma da Empresa - Petrobras" [Learn About the Organization Chart of the Enterprise - Petrobras], Who we are, Petrobras
- ↑ "Diretores" [Directors], Quem somos [Who we are], Petrobrás
- ↑ Zavascki, Teori (November 25, 2015). "Decisão do STF sobre a Prisão do Delcídio Amaral" [Supreme Court Decision on the Imprisonment of Delcídio Amaral] (PDF). Federal Supreme Court. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
- ↑ Anthony Boadle (October 11, 2017). "Brazil court freezes ex-leader Rousseff's assets over 2006 refinery deal". Reuters.
- ↑ Carvalho, Mario César; Pitombo, João Pedro; Nunes, Kleber (December 11, 2015). "Em desdobramento da Lava Jato, PF prende presidente da construtora OAS". Folha de S. Paulo. Folha da manhã. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
- ↑ "Polícia Federal cumpre mandado de busca e apreensão na casa de Cunha" [Federal Police comply with search and seizure warrant at Cunha's house]. G1 Politics (in português). O Globo. December 15, 2015.
- ↑ "Operação Catilinárias apreende R$ 170 mil, documentos e HDs em PE" [Operation Catilinearis seizes R $ 170,000, documents and hard drives in PE]. G1 Pernambuco (in português). O Globo. December 15, 2015. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
- ↑ "Em operação braço da Lava Jato, PF mira em contratos da Valec com empreiteiras" [In a spin-off of Operation Car Wash, Federal Police targets Valec dealings with contractors]. Veja (magazine). Abril. 2016-02-26. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
- ↑ "PF faz operação para investigar fraudes em works de ferrovias" [Federal Police initiates operation to investigate rail works fraud]. G1. Globo. 2016-02-26. Retrieved 2019-11-30.
- ↑ "Operação Cui Bono: o que se sabe até agora". Veja. Abril. January 15, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
- ↑ "Ex-ministro Henrique Eduardo Alves é preso em operação da PF" [Former Minister Henrique Eduardo Alves arrested in PF operation]. G1.
- ↑ "Em Operação Gotham City, PF busca 'Batman' e 'Robin' em Curitiba". Folha de São Paulo.
- ↑ "Lava Jato investiga compra de votos da Rio-2016 e mira Nuzman". Veja.
- ↑ "Nuzman e ex-diretor de Comitê Olímpíco são presos por suspeita de fraude na escolha da Rio 2016". G1.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 "PF termina de contar dinheiro do 'bunker' de Geddel: R$51 milhões". Veja. Abril. September 6, 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2017.
- ↑ "'O potencial realmente é explosivo', diz MPF após operação contra doleiros". O Globo. Globo. May 3, 2018. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
- ↑ Felipe Bächtold; José Marques (May 19, 2019). "Doleiros foragidos e no exterior emperram há 1 ano a maior etapa da Lava Jato" [Outlawed and overseas moneymakers have been jamming the biggest stage of Lava Jato for 1 year]. Folha de S.Paulo. Retrieved November 29, 2019.
- ↑ "Lava Jato mira doleiros que movimentaram US$ 1,6 bilhão em 52 países". Globo. Globo. May 2, 2018. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
- ↑ "Brasileño dueño de un banco en Panamá, arrestado por corrupción: Según la Policía Federal, Plass fue presidente del Banco Pactual, que opera en Río de Janeiro y ya fue investigado por su relación con esas tramas corruptas" (in español). Panamá América. August 3, 2019.
- ↑ "Banker used by Cabral to buy R$77.01 million in jewelry was arrested". Plataforma. Agência Brasil. Retrieved November 29, 2019.
- ↑ "Brazilian judge orders former billionaire Batista released from jail". Latin American Post. August 12, 2019. Retrieved November 29, 2019.
- ↑ "Lava Jato: banqueiro que teria ligações com Sérgio Cabral é preso no Leblon". Globo. Globo. August 3, 2018. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
- ↑ Federal Police (November 19, 2019). "PF desarticula organização criminosa investigada na Operação Cambio Desligo" [PF disrupts criminal organization investigated in Operation Foreign Exchange: Today's action is an offshoot of Lava Jato's working group]. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
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