The executive Augusto Mendonca Neto (House Agency / Handout)
The businessman Augusto Ribeiro Mendonça, the Setal group, reaffirmed on Thursday the Federal Court, in Curitiba, which made official donations to the PT that served to hide bribery corruption scheme at Petrobras. Whistleblower Operation Lava jet, it was heard in the criminal case in which defendants are the president of Andrade Gutierrez and group executives.
"Official donations were made to EN at the request of Renato Duque," Mendonça said. Duke was the head of the State Service, sustained in office by PT, particularly by former minister José Dirceu.Mendonca confirmed the practice of cartel agreements and combination of division between suppliers contractors Petrobras.
Last week, the businessman Ricardo Pessoa, owner of UTC, confirmed in a statement to the judge Sergio Moro also have made donations to the party concealed bribery. The business closed tipoff according awarded last month with the Attorney General's Office.
Mendonca had delivered to Federal Justice receipts of party and election donations made by their companies to the PT between 2008 and 2012, which, according to him, concealed diverted values of Petrobras.
The former treasurer PT Joao Vaccari Neto and Renato Duque - detention pending trial by Lava Jet - are seen as centerpieces of money laundering, which made illegal in legal resources within the official system of transfers for parties and campaigns.
Mendonça, Vaccari and Duke are a defendant in another criminal case of Lava jet, in the final phase, which involves the alleged payment of 4 million reais to the PT. In the material, are four receipts worth 500,000 reais issued by PT donations to the National Directory of the party in 2010. The amount passed on April 7, when he was given the start for the campaign of Dilma Rousseff, was the most donated high in a list of 24 supporters transfers and campaign listed by the whistleblower.
Refineries - As the Federal Public Ministry, have been diverted resources from two works of refineries (Repar, Parana, and Replan in Paulinia). Benefited: the National Directory, the Directory of Bahia, the Municipal Directory Porto Alegre and São Paulo Municipal Directory. Andrade Gutierrez was one of the members of the consortia that participated in the works of these projects.
First executive to make plea bargaining with the Lava jet operation in 2014, Augusto Mendonca confessed that paid kickbacks "agreed with Duke" in the form of official grants.
(With Estadão Content)