Former President Lula can be investigated by the Task Force Lava jet to have benefited the farmer and friend Jose Carlos Bumlai in contracts with the public administration
The Federal Police and the Task Force Lava jet should investigate if the government of former President Lula has benefited the farmer José Carlos Bumlai in contracts with the government. Although Lula is not formally the subject of investigation, it was often quoted by Bumlai itself as the authority which could unlock deadlocks - from maintaining the former director Nestor Cervero at Petrobras until confirmation of a contract probes by Schahin group. For now, the offensive of researchers should focus on loans from financial institutions such as BNDES, used for the corruption scheme, but the PF rule not determined whether the Presidential Palace under the Lula administration interfered in operated contracts Bumlai .
The San Fernando Acucar e Alcool Ltda. He received in 2005 loan of 64.66 million reais from BNDES.In 2008, new transfer. This time 388 million. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2013 with a debt of 1.2 billion reais, including debt of 300 million reais a result of development bank loans. In July 2012, the San Fernando Energy I Ltda., Also Bumlai received loan of more than $ 100 million from BNDES, even though at the time the company counted with only seven employees.
In its award-winning snitching, the lobbyist Fernando Baiano said in an attempt to topple a contract between OSX now, the former billionaire Eike Batista, with Sete Brazil, gestated company in the Lula government to build oil exploration rigs Pre -salt, the businessman José Carlos Bumlai was asked to intercede with Lula. In return, the farmer would have received commission of 2 million, who have just passed on to a daughter of the former president to the debt discharge of a property.
"Regarding the former president Lula, they are still quotes without any supporting proof content. It is very common that the name is used without authorization. That may be the case, but have to investigate, to see if there was really any interference Palace Plateau these contracts ", today defended the delegate Igor Romário de Paula, who works in Lava jet.
According to the prosecutor Diogo Castor de Mattos, the task force Lava Jet is already investigating "tens of millions of real" suspects contracts, including documents involving companies San Fernando Sugar and Alcohol and San Fernando Energy, administered by the children of Jose Carlos Bumlai, and Bertin. According to testimony of the former president of Banco Schahin, Sandro Tordin, the PT Delúbio Soares and José Dirceu, convicted in the trial of the monthly allowance, interceded for the financial institution to release a loan of about 12 million reais to Bumlai. This loan, say the researchers, have been rigged to give an air of truth to the transfer of resources that quitariam debt of former President Lula campaign in 2002. In the end, with money in Bumlai of account, funds were transferred to accounts fridge Bertin.
"There are other loans from financial institutions that are under investigation and total amounts of tens of millions of reais. There is a suspicion of other loans. If there really is this relationship [with corruption scheme at Petrobras], we will take appropriate action in relation to the investigation" , Mattos said.
