Amapá’s Secretary of Education, Sandra Casimiro, traveled to Brasília with the aim of meeting with senator Davi Alcolumbre (União-AP) on the same date that businessman José Marcos de Moura, known as the “King of Trash”, suggested to interlocutors to advance the negotiation of contracts with the state government.
According to the Federal Police (PF), he is one of the heads of a criminal organization that was involved in diverting parliamentary amendments, manipulating contracts and bidding.
The investigation mentions the possibility of paying bribes to politicians, but no names are mentioned.
The secretary’s own staff confirmed to the CNN that Sandra Casimiro went to Brasília and met with .
According to the PF report, obtained by CNNMarcos Moura forwards a message to Alex Parente — also arrested in the Overclean operation — on March 14, 2024 (Thursday), at 4:42 pm.
“The agenda with sec. of Education will be Wednesday at 6pm.”
The messages, according to the investigators, “suggest that they are about scheduling an appointment with person(s) linked to the Department of Education of the State of Amapá, in a meeting that would take place in the city of Brasília”.
Less than a week later, exactly on Wednesday, March 20, the Secretary of Education was released to travel to the federal capital.
Her trip to Brasília was recorded in the Official Gazette of the Government of Amapá, with a retroactive date, on March 22nd.
In the same official document, there is a record that the request for the meeting was made by Senator Alcolumbre.
“Approving the travel of Sandra Maria Martins Cardoso Casimiro, Secretary of State for Education, from the headquarters of her duties, Macapá-AP, to the city of Brasília-DF, in order to participate in the Meeting, in response to the invitation of Senator Davi Alcolumbre , on March 20, 2024”.
In the investigation, the PF points out that the mentions of the future meeting, in the messages on March 14, are “a clear demonstration of the existence of a partnership between the interlocutors, with regard to access to people linked to public administration, who can enable the business interests of both in contracts that may be signed with these bodies”.
Three days earlier, on March 10, the PF intercepted conversations showing that two people under investigation were talking about the direction of the contract.
Alex Parente asks his brother and partner, Pedro Parente, to “deliver to friend M” — for researchers Marcos Moura — projects in Rio de Janeiro and Amapá. Pedro Parente informs that “Amapá is ready”.
At the end of February, before Marcos Moura, one of those investigated sent drafts of documents that should be drawn up by the government of Amapá for contracting services, indicating an attempt to benefit the company linked to those being investigated.
“Allowing a private entity to prepare key documents for a bidding process leads to the direction of the contract, through fraud in the contracting procedure, with subsequent diversion of public resources for their own benefit or that of third parties. This collusion not only discredits public contracts, but also subverts the purpose of public resources, which should be used in favor of the collective interest, thus harming the efficiency and ethics that should guide public administration”, says the PF in the report .
Other side
A CNN He contacted the press office of the Amapá government, who confirmed the secretary’s agenda with Alcolumbre.
“The Communication Secretariat of the State of Amapá informs that the Secretary of Education, Sandra Casimiro, according to Decree No. 2377 of March 22, 2024, fulfilled an institutional agenda in Brasília, with the coordinator of the Federal Bench, Senator Davi Alcolumbre”, says the note from the state government.
Senator Davi Alcolumbre’s office did not return requests for contact from the CNN.
Earlier, the parliamentarian told the CNN who “is president of the CCJ, former president of the Senate and receives numerous demands from Brazilian states and municipalities on various national agendas, and this occurs in the natural routine of Congress”.
