The attempt of the head of, Andrei Rodrigues, to enter a delegate in charge of the Coaf (Financial Activities Control Council) faces resistance in Congress and some ministers of.
The discussions to replace the current president of the agency, Ricardo Liáo, and crashed earlier this year. The choice of delegate Ricardo Saadi for the post created among authorities the fear of an excessive influence of PF on an organ that has access to sensitive bank movements.
At one point, some involved in the exchange process came to work that Saadi’s name had been discarded due to the opposition he faced. Last week, however, the delegate received messages that there is still a chance to be appointed.
COAF has, among other functions, the role of producing financial intelligence reports that often subsidize PF investigations from the identification of bank movements considered atypical.
Currently, Coaf has been linked to, chaired since January by. The appointment is made by the head of the monetary authority through a decree, but an indication for an important position often takes into account the support and resistance accumulated in other sectors.
According to people who follow the matter, the problem is not specifically Saadi, but the fact that a federal delegate commands the body. One of the arguments of critics of this idea is that members of the PF could take advantage of Coaf control unofficially to investigate politicians.
Supporters of Saadi’s name, in turn, claim that the operation of Coaf should be perfected, especially to make use of information about organized crime, a problem that has generated pressure on the federal government. PF delegate advocates also state that any suspicion that falls on politicians will have the referral provided by law.
Saadi’s name for Coaf command came at a moment of PF friction with the organ.
After the first round of the 2024 municipal elections, the PF Director-General criticized the council. Andrei declared to Sheet that the agency would have failed to send communications for R $ 50 million in suspicious transactions related to the purchase of votes. The Coaf countered by saying that he had acted in an integrated manner with the (Superior Electoral Court).
The current president of Coaf has been in office since 2019, when he was appointed by then -central bank head Roberto Campos Neto. Career server, he has worked as supervision director and executive secretary of the agency.
Saadi is today director to combat organized crime and corruption. He has commanded the PF Superintendence in Rio de Janeiro, from April 2018 to August 2019. It was dismissed.
At the time, Bolsonaro claimed “productivity problems” to replace him. Minister of Justice at that time, Sergio Moro said there was an order for Saadi’s resignation.
The delegate is considered a specialist in money laundering investigations and commanded the DRCI, department of the in charge of the recovery of assets and international legal cooperation, in the government of Dilma Rousseff (PT).
The worsening of the relationship between PF and Coaf was still in 2023 and originated in changes in the Council’s intelligence sector. Until July, the head of this area was José Carlos Coelho, a career employee at Banco de Brasil.
Alongside two federal police officers, he had been ahead of the special operations sector for more than five years, which takes care of more complex cases – as those involving criminal organizations linked to trafficking, corruption and money laundering through betting and cryptocurrency home.
Her immediate superior was Intelligence Director Ana Amelia Olczewski, Auditor of Revenue assigned to Coaf. The relationship between the two began to deteriorate at the end of 2023.
According to police, the disagreement had as its main reason the director’s criticism of the model of the team of Coelho – that, in turn, was well seen by federal police and members of the prosecutor.
After the clash with the employee, Ana Amelia asked to leave the organ. The current direction of the PF, then, nouched the name of delegate Silvia Amelia de Fonseca, chosen by the director of Coaf, Ricardo Liáo.
She was named May 9. Weeks later, he took a rabbit out of the role, causing irritation at the PF summit, which immediately requested the return to the corporation of all federal police ceded to Coaf, including the name of Silvia Amelia.
