The Bahia employee associations, which allegedly gave rise to the fake payroll loan portfolios transferred by Banco Master to the BRB (Banco de Brasília), informed the Federal Revenue Service of the telephone number and email address of the business group of Augusto Lima, a former partner of Daniel Forcaro.
The email “contabilidade@grupoterrafirme.com.br” was one of the elements used by the Federal Police to confirm that Lima was behind the two associations responsible for fraudulent payroll loan portfolios worth R$12.2 billion.
“The Asseba and Aseba associations informed the Federal Revenue, as a contact email, of the email address ‘contabilidade@grupoterrafirme.com.br’, which is the same email address as the company Terra Firme da Bahia Ltda (…), owned exclusively by Augusto Lima. Asseba and Terra Firme still share the same contact phone number, before the Federal Revenue,” says the PF representative.
Terra Firme, from Lima, also gave its name to Instituto Terra Firme, which is headed by his wife, former federal MP and ex-minister of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) Flavia Pérez. Despite the name, “the social purpose and actions of the group and the institute are completely different,” the NGO says.
“The investigation will prove the absolute absence of a connection between Augusto Lima and the operations under investigation,” says lawyer Pedro Evo Veloso. The defense adds that the businessman had already left Master, had an impeccable record, and had always acted legally, transparently and responsibly.
ASTEPA (Association of Professional, Administrative and Related Staff of the State of Bahia) and ASIPA (Association of Health and Related Staff of the Direct Administration of the State of Bahia) were also the target of search and seizure during Operation Zero Compliance, which arrested Lima and Forcaro on the 18th.
The Federal Public Ministry determined that the deductions made on the state payroll checks indicated low-value monthly fees and interconnected services and could not have generated R$6.7 billion in payroll loan portfolios (plus R$5.5 billion in installments, which is the value that the portfolio was supposed to be worth, plus the bonus).
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