The lobbyist suspected of working in offices at the (Superior Court of Justice), is the target of an investigation by those investigating him for alleged money laundering.
Suspicions fall mainly due to an increase in assets of 3,052% between 2014 and 2015.
“[Andreson é] protagonist of relevant evolution in terms of property ownership between 2014 and 2015, jumping from an asset valued at R$305,000 to another estimated at R$9,311,540”, says the PF analysis of the lobbyist’s financial information.
According to the document, he did not present, in his Income Tax declaration, “financial substrate that supports the highlighted evolution”. Between 2009 and 2015, Andreson’s declared income was approximately R$1 million.
Currently, the lobbyist’s defense awaits a decision from the STJ itself in an appeal in this investigation. When contacted by the report, Andreson’s lawyers declined to comment.
In the process, Andreson tries to get the Court to transfer the investigation from a court specializing in money laundering in Mato Grosso to the Federal Court of Cáceres, a municipality on the border with Bolivia.
He justifies that the investigations were initiated in the city — they are related to a case in which he was acquitted of drug trafficking charges — and therefore they should be tried there.
The rapporteur of the appeal at the STJ is Minister Messod Azulay, who has not yet commented. The Federal Public Ministry took a contrary position.
These investigations that ended up analyzing Andreson’s assets began when he was investigated on suspicion of drug trafficking, after taking a trip to Bolivia in 2011 and, later, contacting the lawyer of a man who was arrested weighing almost 300 kg of cocaine.
He was denounced by the Federal Public Ministry on August 7, 2015 on charges of the crimes of association for trafficking and international trafficking.
His defense stated that he had no involvement in the case and that the conversation with the lawyer was intended to discuss “legal work in favor of the client”. Andreson is not a lawyer, but says he graduated in law.
Later, in October 2018, the Public Prosecutor’s Office itself understood that there was no clear link that associated Andreson with the drug trafficker to carry out irregular acts and asked for his acquittal.
The court acquitted him in the process, a decision that was upheld in the second instance by the TRF-1 (Regional Court of the 1st Region).
This trafficking case was initiated in the federal court of Cáceres. In 2019, material involving suspected money laundering was sent to the specialized court.
According to the Public Ministry, this happened because “several inconsistencies were found in the data declared by Andreson […]especially when compared with the information provided by banking institutions linked to the person being investigated”.
“In the aforementioned analysis report, it was evident that the assets achieved by Andreson de Oliveira Gonçalves cannot be justified”, he says.
There is evidence, he also states, that the “considerable evolution of the investigated man’s assets and the large financial transactions he initiated are related to possible criminal practices”.
When analyzing Andreson’s data, the IRS also said it identified that there was a lack of information from paying sources that increased his assets, in addition to other omissions and inconsistencies.
In the case file, in addition to disagreeing with the change of the case to the specialized court, Andreson’s defense says that since 1996 he has “carried out lawful business activity, as well as currently practicing law in partnership with his wife” —Andreson is not a lawyer.
The lobbyist’s request for a money laundering investigation has been being processed at the STJ since August this year, shortly before those that exposed suspicions about sales of decisions at the STJ involving Andreson.
The lobbyist was an interlocutor of , murdered in December last year in Cuiabá.
The conversations that were on the defender’s cell phone pointed to suspicious relationships with magistrates and supported the removal of two judges from the Mato Grosso Court of Justice.
Andreson was Zampieri’s connection with the courts in Brasília, according to investigations, and negotiated decisions in STJ offices.
He was also involved in suspected sales of decisions in Mato Grosso do Sul. In this case, Andreson is named in suspicions related to one of the judges removed from operation last month.
Investigations regarding suspicions regarding the sale of judicial decisions are currently being processed at the (Supreme Federal Court), under the report of the minister, at the request of the (Attorney General’s Office). Two STJ employees were dismissed and face administrative disciplinary proceedings.
