André Esteves prison time (Play / SEE)
The minister Teori Zavascki, rapporteur of the processes of Operation Lava jet in the Supreme Court (STF) ruled on Thursday the transfer of banker André Esteves, owner of BTG Pactual, the incarceration of the Federal Police (PF) in Rio de Janeiro for the Ary Franco prison. The request had been made by the Federal Police, who claimed it could not afford to keep the executive arrested in incarceration.
Esteves's departure occurred at 22h18 this Thursday, in a convoy of police vehicles. Before entering the prison, he passed the Legal Medical Institute (IML), to forensic examination
André Esteves had decreed temporary detention by order of Teori own and was arrested yesterday morning. In winning snitching agreement, the former director of the international area Nestor Cervero Petrobras said the banker paid a bribe to Senator Fernando Collor (PTB-AL) in a flagging contract of 120 gas stations in Sao Paulo. The stations belonged jointly to the BTG Group and Santiago. The tipoff stretch of Cervero description was annexed by order of the minister of the STF on Delcídio Amaral Senator arrest warrants (PT-MS), Edson Ribeiro lawyer, Diogo Ferreira chief of staff and the very André Esteves. The banker is also suspected of providing money to buy the silence of Cerveró to prevent the former director did tipoff in accordance with the law.
"Nestor Cervero describes the practice of bribery crime by André Esteves, through Banco BTG Pactual, consistent in paying undue advantage to Senator Fernando Collor, on flagging contract within 120 gas stations in Sao Paulo, belonging BTG Pactual jointly to the Bank and the business group called Santiago Group, "says excerpt from a document from the Attorney General's Office. The whistleblower, the former head also tells that Senator Delcídio received bribes in both the acquisition of probes by Petrobras as the purchase of the Pasadena refinery in Texas, USA.
Possible references to Esteves had also appeared on a ticket contractor Marcelo Odebrecht seized the incarceration of the Federal Police in Curitiba. In a text excerpt, Odebrecht tells his defenders: "Destroy email probes". For researchers, the ticket could represent an order for the destruction of evidence. This order would be cause for Odebrecht had your extended prison - because it would be an attempt to obstruct the investigation. For lawyers of the entrepreneur, the use of destroying was metaphorical: Odebrecht only directed to deconstruct the charge of having overpriced contracts with Petrobras.
On the same ticket to lawyers, Marcelo Odebrecht notes: "story of André Esteves initiative Remember that time seven Petrobras off balance, so help Seven was seen as helping Petrobras.". Seven quoted by the contractor is the Seven Brazil, a company created to build rigs for oil exploration of the pre-salt and implicated in investigations of Lava jet.
