Dalton of Avancini Santos, president of construction company Camargo Corrêa (Claudio Belli / Folhapress)
Under house arrest after sealing tipoff according awarded the Justice, the contractor Avancini Dalton, president of Camargo Corrêa, told the task force Operation Lava Jet paid bribes to perform works in the North-South railway - and that the operation given along the lines of megaesquema corruption installed in Petrobras, right up to contractors cartel. The information is the newspaper O Globo. According to the report, the executive also admitted that the scheme, as well as the petrolão, fueled coffers of political parties and filled the pockets of officials.
Released from jail PF on Monday, the executive was arrested since November 14, when the judgment was triggered Operation Final stage of Lava jet in which partners and contractors employees have been arrested for fraud and corruption in Petrobras contracts. After long negotiations with the Federal Public Ministry and the Federal Police, Avancini and commercial vice president of construction company Camargo Corrêa, Eduardo Leite, closed the whistleblower award agreement.
Executives testified daily for nearly two weeks, who confessed crimes and presented new evidence of the corruption scheme in Petrobras and other state, in exchange for more lenient sentence possible for Justice. As part of the punishment stipulated by the agreements, Avancini had to pay a fine of 5 million, and milk, 2.5 million. In statements made in the agreement, they confirmed payment of bribes to John Vaccari Neto, national treasurer of the PT, and Renato Duque, former director of state services.
According to O Globo, Avancini detailed the existence of another "club" of contractors in the North-South. Now, researchers want to know if the rules were the same cartel that Ricardo Pessoa, owner of UTC, commanded by Petrobras. Among the companies involved in this club were old friends of Lava jet, as Constran linked to UTC, Andrade Gutierrez and Queiroz Galvão. Camargo Correa participated contracts totaling $ 1 billion in North-South, signed with Valec, state of the Ministry of Transport to develop rail projects. In the North-South, the companies of "Billion Club" took fourteen lots of works. In four of them, under the responsibility of Constran-UTC, the Court of Audit (TCU) found "fat" of 64.6 million dollars in contracts totaling 390 million.
Avancini will also provide new evidence that detail how they were made payments and the amounts of bribes. But already said that the distribution of booty followed rules similar to petrolão scheme, according to the newspaper.
(From the Newsroom)
