04/17/2024 – 22:22
A leader of União Brasil in the city of Suzano has been on the run since Tuesday, 16th, after being the target of an arrest warrant in an operation by the Public Ministry of São Paulo (MP-SP). Dario Reisinger Ferreira is suspected of being part of a group allegedly linked to the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), which is allegedly promoting fraud in tenders in several cities in the state.
O Estadão He contacted the party's state directory this Thursday, the 17th, to understand what would be done about the matter, but there was no response. Ferreira, who owns a law firm in Suzano and took on the role of municipal president of the party before the 2024 elections, could not be located.
According to the Public Ministry, giving the appearance of legality to the collusion.
The investigation as a whole began with an anonymous complaint in Guarulhos, in the metropolitan region of the capital, reporting that disputes over the provision of outsourced cleaning services were being directed to a specific company in several cities in the region. Prosecutors then gathered evidence that public servants were receiving bribes to favor companies in contracts with city halls and city councils.
The criminal organization would still have direct involvement from the PCC with some members and “oranges” acting as owners of companies under suspicion. The criminal faction would still be responsible for deliberating on the “luck of contracts, when there were differences between the companies”. According to prosecutors, contracts with signs of fraud total around R$200 million in at least 12 municipalities.
According to the report, Ferreira would be “extrapolating legal action to adhere to the group's illicit conduct” and acting “not only in criminal proceedings, representing the personal interests of members, but also with representations in his own name, aiming to challenge bidding notices to favor the companies of the criminal group, all to guarantee simulated competition and an advantage in public contracts”.
The criminal case in question is against Márcio Zeca, convicted of drug trafficking after being caught transporting 200 portions of cocaine under a false bottom in a Mercedes-Benz vehicle. He is defended in the records by Ferreira. Zeca was also considered a “member of the PCC” in another court conviction, but there is still an appeal.
When authorizing the search and seizure request at the lawyer's residential and commercial addresses, judge Priscila Devechi Ferraz Maia, from the 5th Criminal Court of Guarulhos, stated that “the evidence collected so far brings strong indications of involvement […] in the activities of the association now being investigated, due to the messages obtained with the breach of telematic data granted, with the representation even pointing out a challenge to the notice of the contest held in its own name.”
Ferreira is one of the 15 targets of the operation who had a request for arrest authorized by the Court. Of these, 13 were fulfilled. The other who is still at large is Vagner Borges Dias, known as Latrell Brito, who declares himself a pagode singer and has more than 1 million followers on Instagram. He is suspected of being one of the main operators of the scheme, with a company in his name that alternated with others in the competitions.
Vice candidate
About a month ago, Ferreira gave an interview to Diário de Suzano and expressed his desire to run as vice-mayor on the ticket of Pedro Ishi (PL), a name nominated by current mayor Rodrigo Ashiuchi, from the same party, for the October election. . “I will be in the campaign. I don’t know if it will be as a vice president, holding a flag, distributing cards or going door to door.”
The lawyer claims in the video that the invitation to lead União Brasil in the city came from Renato Felix, vice-president known as Renatinho and who is linked to state deputy Solange Freitas (União Brasil), a journalist whose electoral stronghold is São Vicente.
“União Brasil inherits this history (from DEM) a little, but it is a new party. There is a new face, a new way of doing politics, and I have the honor of being the face of União Brasil in Suzano”, declared Ferreira. According to the report, he had been in charge of the municipal directory since July 2023 and, without his own headquarters, gave space to the party in his office.
Three councilors arrested
Operation Muditia also resulted in the arrest of three São Paulo councilors: Flávio Batista de Souza (Podemos), known as Inha, from Ferraz de Vasconcelos; Luiz Carlos Alves Dias (MDB), Luizão Architect, from Santa Isabel; and Ricardo de Oliveira (PSD), Ricardo Queixão, from Cubatão. Only the MDB declared to the press that it will expel the parliamentarian, while Podemos and PSD say they are following the investigations.
Prosecutors state in the report that Inha dealt “directly with the owner of the companies contracted by the City of Ferraz de Vasconcelos” regarding the distribution of values and acted as “receiver of shady transfers from the criminal group”. Luizão, in turn, maintained “intense contact” with one of the suspects and “registers concern about other companies that appear in the bidding, due to the payment of bribes given to him”. Complainant is also suspected of receiving bribes arising from signed contracts, “according to telematic data”.
O Estadão tried to contact the councilors' defense until the publication of this text. The space is open for demonstrations.
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