The entrepreneur and influencer Pablo MarçalPRTB’s defeated candidate for mayor of São Paulo (SP) in this year’s elections, was indicted by the Federal Police (PF) for the crime of using a false document.
Two days before the first round of the municipal election, on October 4th (voting took place on the 6th), Marçal’s campaign released an alleged medical report against the federal deputy Guilherme BoulosPSOL candidate. The document, which was false, associated Boulos with drug use.
According to information from TV GloboMarçal gave a statement, this Friday morning (8), at the PF Regional Superintendence, in the Lapa neighborhood (west zone of the capital of São Paulo). He was interviewed by police officers for around three hours and denied involvement in preparing or publishing the material.
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According to the businessman, the false document was published by his social media team.
An examination carried out by the PF concluded, on October 7th, that the doctor’s signature on the supposed report was false. José Roberto de Souza, who appears as the doctor responsible for the document, died in 2022.
“There was a prevalence of dissimilarities between the questioned signature and the patterns presented, both in graphic forms and in their genesis, with no evidence that such graphics were written by the same person. The evidence strongly supports the hypothesis that the questioned manuscripts were not produced by the same person who provided the standards”, concluded the PF experts.
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The expert also sought to certify the authenticity of the document, but had to request new analyzes to compare it with other reports of similar content produced by Clínica Mais Consulta, which appears in the false report.
“Therefore, in cases where the documents do not present such security elements, it will not be possible to attest to their authenticity through the aforementioned expert examinations, with the need to analyze other elements, such as the official issuance record or any other specification for the issuance of said document. document, in addition to common or dry stamps, with the need to compare them with the corresponding standards”, stated the experts.
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“In the case in question, it is not a security document, in addition to having been presented digitally and not physically. Therefore, the verification of tampering or electronic assembly may be carried out by specific tests that were not the subject of this report.”
Clinic owner
The clinic’s partner, Luiz Teixeira da Silva Júnior, denies having participated in the preparation of the document. In a note, he states that his name and that of his companies were used improperly, without his knowledge, “by a person unknown to him”.
Luiz Teixeira has already been convicted of falsifying a medical course diploma and graduation certificate. On his social media profiles, he presented himself as a clinical pathologist, judicial expert, writer and health attaché diplomat.
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Also on social media, the clinic’s partner appears in a photo, alongside Pablo Marçal, wearing a coat with the Albert Einstein Hospital logo. In a note, the hospital clarified that “the professional in question never worked in its units or in any other activity managed by Einstein”.
Deleted message and request for arrest
After the publication of the false report, on the eve of the first round, the Electoral Court ordered that the post be immediately deleted from all social networks. Marçal’s Instagram profiles were suspended.
The day after the publication, Boulos’ campaign presented a request to the Court for the arrest of the PRTB candidate, in addition to the revocation of his candidacy – which did not happen.
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In the first round of the election in São Paulo, on October 6, Marçal was in third place, with 28.14% of valid votes (more than 1.7 million votes). He was behind Ricardo Nunes, from MDB (29.48%), and Guilherme Boulos, from PSOL (29.07%). In the second round, Nunes was elected with more than 59% of the valid votes.
