Luis Claudio Lula da Silva, son of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Reginaldo Castro / Lancepress / SEE)
A company of Luis Claudio Lula da Silva, son of former President Lula, received payments of one of the suspects consultants to act by Provisional Measure 471, which extended tax benefits to automakers.The Marcondes & Mautoni Ventures made transfers to the LFT Sports Marketing, opened in March 2011 by Luis Claudio. The values reach 2.4 million reals and 400,000 were transferred in real plots.That same year, the provisional measure came into force.
Luis Claudio confirms payments. He said through his lawyers in a statement that the LFT provided services to Marcondes & Mautoni in the "sports marketing", but did not specify them. "This amount was properly accounted for and declared" he said. The entrepreneur argues that his line of work "has always been the sport, exclusively in the private sphere." Luis Claudio said his company made "projects" for Marcondes & Mautoni, "always in their area of expertise."
Opened in August 1998, Marcondes & Mautoni acts as a representative of manufacturers in industry bodies such as the National Association of Vehicle Manufacturers (Anfavea) and the National Vehicle Industry Union (Sinfavea). The records of the IRS, there is no reference to sport among the economic activities of the company.
The firm's owner, Mauro Marcondes Machado, has worked for decades as a representative of manufacturers in the automotive sector entities. "There are nearly forty years he is vice president and has positions within the Anfavea. It is a person who has deep industry knowledge," explained the president of MMC Automotores, representative of Mitsubishi, Robert Rittscher, in testimony to the Board CPI Tax Appeals (Carf) in the Senate.
The transfers to Luis Claudio company were identified in research on financial transactions of Marcondes & Mautoni. The company is in the sights of Operation Zealots, who investigates corruption scheme in Carf held jointly by the Federal Police, Internal Revenue Service, Federal Public Ministry and Internal Affairs Division of the Ministry of Finance. She is suspected of having operated to reduce, irregularly, a fine applied by the "Recipe of the court" at MMC Automotores.
Sought, Marcondes & Mautoni reported never having done "any transfer to any company or person." In a statement, he maintained that "there was never any management anyone on behalf of M & M, or at its request, or to any of its customers in the government environment, one despautério any implication to the contrary." And he said it does "all your business always in compliance with the law." The company gave no explanation of services provided to the Luís Cláudio company.
