The measure stems from the process that forced the politician to restore R $ 417 million to the public coffers
The TJ-SP (Court of Justice of São Paulo) ordered the attachment of 19 properties that are on behalf of the former governor and mayor of the city, Paulo Maluf, 93. The measure is due to a process that condemned the politician to return R $ 417 million to the public coffers.
The process began in 1993 and, in 2007, the conviction was definitive, but the amounts have not yet been paid. Maluf’s defense will appeal the decision. The information is from .
In December 2023, the Swiss justice ordered the return of the money, but Maluf’s defense appealed the decision, which was upheld in the new sentence. The return of resources was determined by the condemnation of the politician for deviations of resources in the 1990s, at the time when he was mayor of São Paulo.
In March 2024, the Justice of Switzerland of $ 80 million that were blocked in accounts related to Maluf. According to the AGU (General Advocacy of the Union), the decision taken by the Supreme Court Swiss is definitive. Here the nota (PDF – 211 KB)
According to the court, the money was diverted abroad. Part of the amount was used to buy shares of the company that belongs to the family of Maluf.
The repatriation was determined after the international cooperation procedure presented by AGU in conjunction with the MPF (Federal Prosecutor) and the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. In 2017, Maluf was convicted by the Supreme Court (STF) to 10 years and 6 months in prison for money laundering.
Attachment and freedom
One of the pledged properties is a mansion in Guarujá, city of the coast of São Paulo.
Maluf is free after meeting more than 1/3 of the sentence and meeting the legal requirements to benefit from the Christmas pardon.
In January 2023, the Public Prosecution Service of São Paulo issued a statement stating that the city’s city US $ 44 million that were diverted by former mayor Paulo Maluf, according to court decision.
According to MP-SP, the deviations occurred during the works of Avenida Journalist Roberto Marinho, former Avenida Águas Espraiadas, and the Ayrton Senna tunnel, from 1993 to 1998. (PDF – 38KB).
The deviations reached $ 300 million, according to prosecutor Silvio Marques, who investigates Maluf for over 20 years. Of the total, the prosecution claims to have been able to recover about $ 110 million.
It was the 5th agreement that the prosecution has achieved since 2014. The other 4 were made with banks that helped move the money.
