Former president of Petrobras Jose Sergio Gabrielli (Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters)
In a report to the Federal Supreme Court (STF), federal police said that Lava Operation Jet found elements that link the former president of Petrobras Jose Sergio Gabrielli had extensive knowledge of the mega corruption scheme installed in the state - and used the propinoduto in favor of PT. The findings were referred to court with request that various authorities are heard in the investigation into the billionaire corruption scheme that bled the coffers of the oil, including former President Lula.
The federal police Josélio Azevedo Sousa said that "there are elements that indicate that José Sérgio Gabrielli not only knew of this corruption network in Petrobras, but also made use of it directly for the benefit of the Workers Party."
Among the evidence cited by the police authority are reports that the shell companies Sanko Sider, Contractor Stiffness and MO Consulting, all used by the money changer Alberto Youssef to operationalize the corruption scheme at Petrobras, held 3.4 million actual transfers for two other companies - Muranno Brazil / Marketing LTD and Mistral Communication LTD - so that the owner of them, Ricardo Marcelo Villani, "did not denounce the payment of undue advantages for the benefit of the PT." What's more, the financial hit would bribe AIDS operationalized by itself Youssef at the request of Gabrielli.
In testimony given in its award-winning snitching agreement, the former head of state supplies Paulo Roberto Costa made it clear that Gabrielli "had full knowledge of the corruption scheme that was going on Petrobras' Downstream Board."
In the document submitted to the Supreme Court, the sheriff also implied the Workers' Party and said government allies, especially the PT, took the Petrobras "in exchange for crystallized partisan political interests on the need to indulge themselves and remain in power ". "The PT would have exploited Petrobras to meet its political and partisan interests," says the PF.
"The level of detail of the stories of the employees, the logical line of events narrated by different employees and the sheer number of factual events have demonstrated, resulting including millions in refunds to the public coffers and convictions under the first instance, require the present research progress what seems to underlie the range of situations descortinadas within the Lava jet operations, which is the fact that parties of the government's power base, especially the Workers' Party, made use of Petrobras in exchange for crystallized partisan political interests in need of It indulge themselves and stay in power, "concludes the delegate.
Currently, survey targeted the STF PT authorities as Senator Gleisi Hoffmann, the former treasurer of the party Joao Vaccari Neto, senators Lindberg Farias and Humberto Costa, Mr Vander Loubet and former government leader and former deputy Candido Vaccarezza.