The money changer Alberto Youssef testifies in CPI of Petrobras at the headquarters of the Federal Court in Curitiba (PR) - 05.11.2015 (Vagner Rosario / SEE)
One of the main informers of Operation Lava jet, the money changer Alberto Youssef detailed in testimony to the Federal Police, as operationalized the tuition fees for the Workers Party (PT). Youssef said, for example, that the black money payments made by Toshiba Infrastructure by works of the Petrochemical Complex of Rio de Janeiro (Comperj), the executive, José Alberto Piva Campana, came to complain that the PT would be "filling the bag "to receive a portion of tuition fee agreed with the company.
According to Youssef in 2010 or 2011, Toshiba sought his services to the then director of Supply of Petrobras, Paulo Roberto Costa, intercede in favor of the company in a Comperj work. At this point, he said the whistle-blower, Piva and the president of Toshiba, José Borba, were told they would have to pay a bribe not only the Progressive Party (PP), which gave political support to Costa, but also to the PT through the then treasurer party, Joao Vaccari Neto. Under the agreement, reported Youssef, of the dirty money due to the PT was handed over to sister of Vaccari, Marice, at the offices of GDF front company, owned by the money changer.
The testimony he provided to the Federal Police, Alberto Youssef also said he believed "all" the PT transfers made by businesses Treviso, Auguri Ventures and Piedmont Investments, also linked to snitch Julio Camargo, were the purest payment of bribes. In detailing the path of dirty money to the PT coffers, the money changer quoted sending about 160,000 reais Contractor rigidity of a shell company, the LXC Graphic Arts. The payment would have occurred at the behest of the contractor Ricardo Pessoa, who had committed to pass 2.5 million reais to the party. The receipt portion of kickback through the graphical, according to Youssef, was made by a Vaccari emissary identified as Chicão.
