The president of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ), and their families have secret accounts in Switzerland, says MPF (Miguel SCHINCARIOL / AFP)
The Federal Public Ministry confirmed on Wednesday that the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha (PMDB-RJ), is investigated in Switzerland for money laundering suspicions and passive corruption. Swiss investigating authorities found secret cons of the PMDB and family in the European country. The balance of these accounts were blocked and there is evidence that they contain kickbacks allegedly received by the deputy in petrolão scandal.
After identifying that Cunha was the holder of bank accounts, the prosecution of Switzerland sent on Wednesday to Brazil the information on the case, which allows the Attorney General's Office to investigate and prosecute the deputy for money laundering and corruption passive. The transfer of research from Switzerland to Brazil occurs so that if the calculations can be continued, since, being a native Brazilian, Eduardo Cunha could not be extradited to Switzerland.
The engineer João Augusto Henriques, appointed by prosecutors as one of the PMDB operators in Lava Jato, was one of the investigated in petrolão citing Eduardo Cunha as one of the beneficiaries of money in secret accounts abroad. In testimony to the federal police, he said he transferred money to a checking account whose real recipient was the mayor. According to the version of the operator, who was arrested at the 19th phase of Operation Lava jet, the transfer to the alleged Cunha bill was not a bribe and he did not even know the recipient would be the parliamentary. He said the account was in the name of a company and only when his own accounts in Switzerland were blocked did you know that the recipient of the money was the PMDB.
The police, Henriques confessed that he received money from certain customers abroad and did not report figures to the IRS of Brazil. He argued that resources are unrelated to the petrolão the scandal and are "finder's fee", ie commissions paid to intermediaries for financial transactions.
This was not the first time that the name of Cunha appeared in statements related to Lava jet. At Justice, the lobbyist Julio Camargo, who acted in favor of Toyo Setal company, said the deputy asked 5 million Petrobras propinoduto of dollars on a contract drilling ships.
The former manager of the International Area of Petrobras Eduardo Musa said in winning snitching agreement, it was up to Cunha, as a parliamentarian, give the "final word" on the decisions of the International board, when the board was controlled by the defendant in petrolão Jorge Zelada .According to Musa, fell to João Augusto Henriques topple Zelada at the top of the oil, though Wedge direct influence on the company's management.
"João Augusto Henriques said the declarant that managed to place Jorge Luiz Zelada to Petrobras' International director with the support of the PMDB of Minas Gerais, but who gave the final word was Congressman Eduardo Cunha, the PMDB / RJ" says excerpt from tipoff award-winning Musa. The mayor said he did not know Eduardo Musa.
