Minister of Finance cited the case of “rachadinhas” after announcing that the government will revoke monitoring of Pix
The senator (PL-RJ) responded this Wednesday (January 15, 2025) to the criticism of the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, regarding the “rachadinhas” case. The congressman used Instagram to say that the “government tries to use the surname Bolsonaro” to “divert focus”.
This Wednesday, the government stated that it will the normative instruction that increased supervision over transfers above R$5,000 from Pix to individuals.
During the announcement, the Minister of Finance said that one cannot “putting to waste the instruments that the State has to combat crime”. He also mentioned that the practice was combatted “because the authority identified an absurd movement in Flávio Bolsonaro’s accounts”. In May 2022, the Rio de Janeiro Court the complaint against the senator.
The Bolsonaro family was one of the biggest critics of the monitoring of Pix transactions by the Tax Authorities. The former president (PL-RJ) reached that the monitoring of financial transactions made by Pix or credit cards “would not exist in your government”.
GOVERNMENT RETREATS
The special secretary of the Federal Revenue, Robinson Barreirinhas, was the one who announced the government’s retreat.
He blamed misinformation and scams in recent days to justify the fall in normative instruction, a defeat for the Executive after the negative repercussion of the measure.
Barreirinhas stated that the measure became a “arma” in the hand of “criminals”. And he added: “Unfortunately, these unscrupulous people aim to harm the most humble people in the country, including creating room for crimes to be committed based on this lie. Unfortunately, this damage is ongoing. And because of this continuity of damage, this manipulation of this act by the Revenue, I decided to revoke this act”.
Haddad was next to Barreirinhas during the announcement. He was criticized on social media for creating the measure that increases inspection.
CASE OF THE “RACHADINHAS”
Flávio was indicted in November 2020 for the crimes of criminal organization, money laundering, embezzlement and embezzlement (use of public money for personal purposes).
The investigation looked at transfers of salaries from employees of Flávio’s former office at Alerj (Rio de Janeiro Legislative Assembly) to former advisor Fabrício Queiroz, a practice popularly known as “crack”.
According to the complaint, Flávio was the leader of a criminal organization that embezzled R$6 million from the coffers of Alerj (Rio de Janeiro Legislative Assembly), by hiring employees who shared their salaries in part or in full with the former advisor. Fabrício Queiroz, appointed as the scheme’s financial operator.
The MP-RJ investigation was opened in 2018, after a report from Coaf (Financial Activities Control Council) identified atypical movements of R$1.2 million in the bank accounts of former parliamentary advisor Fabrício Queiroz, who worked for Flávio at Alerj .
