Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 0:14:28 GMT -5
One day after the defense of offshore Durant admitted that the company's accounts in Jersey received money from former mayor and deputy Paulo Maluf (PP-SP), the Public Ministry of São Paulo wants to use the documents presented in court on the British island in proceedings in Brazilian justice. This Thursday (/), the last day of hearings at the Royal Court of Jersey, City Hall lawyers rejected the version that the amounts were a "commission" for private business. The information is from the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo .
Defense lawyers tried to postpone the trial of the action in which City Hall is trying to recover US$ million allegedly diverted from works on the former Avenida Água Espraiada (now Jornalista Roberto Marinho). The request was denied. The Jersey Court, however, will only announce a decision on the case in the coming weeks.
"This money was not payment for Enterpa contracts, but for corruption," said lawyer Stephan Baker, who represents City Hall in the trial in Jersey. "Invoices were given by Mendes Junior for services and were falsely inflated. They were payments that were part of a fraud."
Mendes Junior was the contractor hired by the extinct BTC Number Data Municipal Urbanization Company (Emurb), responsible for the works at Água Espraiada. According to the City Hall and the Public Ministry, the construction company required subcontractors to issue cold invoices to overprice the services. The additional amounts would have been passed on to municipal authorities, including Maluf. These funds would have passed through the accounts in Jersey.
The offshore company's defense stated in court and presented documents, as reported this Thursday by the newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo , admitting that Durant's accounts blocked by the courts were controlled by Flávio Maluf, son of the former mayor. But the lawyers allege that Maluf received a "commission" for "facilitating the acquisition" of the waste company Enterpa by the Argentine group Macri, between and The former mayor, however, was not aware that the "reward" would be paid through the Chanani account in New York, and then would go to Jersey.
In Brazil, prosecutor Silvio Antonio Marques, who has been investigating Maluf for years, informed that the Public Ministry will request a copy of the documents presented by Durant's lawyers. For him, the papers are "fundamental", as they would overturn Maluf's version that he never had assets deposited abroad.
Marques plans to add the documents to the Civil Action files of the th Public Finance Court of the Capital, ongoing since Since that year, movable and immovable assets belonging to Maluf and defendants, including his relatives, in the total amount of R$ billion, are blocked.
In the action, Maluf is cited for misconduct in the Água Espraiada and Ayrton Senna Tunnel works. On Monday (/), unanimously, the th Chamber of Public Law rejected the request to unlock Maluf's assets.
The defense's effort in Jersey to show that the transactions in the offshore accounts are the result of "legitimate business" is interpreted by the prosecution as an attempt to convince the judge that the assets were, at worst, the result of tax evasion, and not corruption. Tax havens, like Jersey, agree to collaborate with foreign governments to recover assets, but only when it comes to corruption.
Defense lawyers tried to postpone the trial of the action in which City Hall is trying to recover US$ million allegedly diverted from works on the former Avenida Água Espraiada (now Jornalista Roberto Marinho). The request was denied. The Jersey Court, however, will only announce a decision on the case in the coming weeks.
"This money was not payment for Enterpa contracts, but for corruption," said lawyer Stephan Baker, who represents City Hall in the trial in Jersey. "Invoices were given by Mendes Junior for services and were falsely inflated. They were payments that were part of a fraud."
Mendes Junior was the contractor hired by the extinct BTC Number Data Municipal Urbanization Company (Emurb), responsible for the works at Água Espraiada. According to the City Hall and the Public Ministry, the construction company required subcontractors to issue cold invoices to overprice the services. The additional amounts would have been passed on to municipal authorities, including Maluf. These funds would have passed through the accounts in Jersey.
The offshore company's defense stated in court and presented documents, as reported this Thursday by the newspaper O Estado de S.Paulo , admitting that Durant's accounts blocked by the courts were controlled by Flávio Maluf, son of the former mayor. But the lawyers allege that Maluf received a "commission" for "facilitating the acquisition" of the waste company Enterpa by the Argentine group Macri, between and The former mayor, however, was not aware that the "reward" would be paid through the Chanani account in New York, and then would go to Jersey.
In Brazil, prosecutor Silvio Antonio Marques, who has been investigating Maluf for years, informed that the Public Ministry will request a copy of the documents presented by Durant's lawyers. For him, the papers are "fundamental", as they would overturn Maluf's version that he never had assets deposited abroad.
Marques plans to add the documents to the Civil Action files of the th Public Finance Court of the Capital, ongoing since Since that year, movable and immovable assets belonging to Maluf and defendants, including his relatives, in the total amount of R$ billion, are blocked.
In the action, Maluf is cited for misconduct in the Água Espraiada and Ayrton Senna Tunnel works. On Monday (/), unanimously, the th Chamber of Public Law rejected the request to unlock Maluf's assets.
The defense's effort in Jersey to show that the transactions in the offshore accounts are the result of "legitimate business" is interpreted by the prosecution as an attempt to convince the judge that the assets were, at worst, the result of tax evasion, and not corruption. Tax havens, like Jersey, agree to collaborate with foreign governments to recover assets, but only when it comes to corruption.