Like prisoner Daniel Forcaro, of Banco Master, Ricardo Magro, the owner of the Manguinhos refinery – and the target of a massive operation against a tax fraud scheme suspected of causing a loss of R$26 billion – has a wide range of political friends. As the article reported on Saturday, Magro told the Folha newspaper in September that he was seeking advice from Bolsonaro’s senator, Ciro Nogueira, head of the People’s Party, “a friend of mine outside politics.”
Malik Manguinhos, who presents himself as a lawyer for former MP Eduardo Cunha, has no party or ideology with the political world – as long as he has power. In 2010, Workers’ Party leader Marcelo Sereno, who had been José Dirceu’s chief of staff in the Civil House of Lula’s first government, as well as the Workers’ Party’s national secretary of communications, was summoned to lead the refinery.