Central character of the investigation that overthrew (-ma) of the Lula government summit (PT), businessman Eduardo José Barros Costa, Eduardo DP, has expanded public contracts from his construction company and articulates his wife’s candidacy, Larissa Torres, to the Chamber of Deputies.
For the Federal Police, Juscelino and the businessman played for amendments presented by the former Minister of Communications when he was not still part of the government. He is a federal deputy.
The company Construservice, would have been used in the scheme, says.
Juscelino was denounced by the PGR (Attorney General of the Republic) in the same case and left the command of communications on Tuesday (8). He resumed the position of deputy and
Early on, Eduardo DP announced that his wife will be a candidate in 2026, under the name Larissa DP. In local press interviews, they said the MDB should shelter it.
In the following weeks, the couple sponsored carnival blocks in the interior of Maranhão to promote the candidacy. The two also said they will participate in the delivery of fish during Holy Week for families of Codó, a municipality about 300 km from the capital São Luís.
Eduardo DP and has coveted support, say federal and state deputies heard by Sheet. However, he moved away from the stands after 2022 in the PF operation that found deviations from amendments.
Larissa’s entry can displease Juscelino’s political group, according to authorities accompanying Maranhão policy. This is because Eduardo DP would be sewing alliances in Vitorino Freire (MA), a city several times governed by relatives of the deputy, with one with him.
Sought, Eduardo DP and Juscelino did not comment on the political articulation for Larissa’s election.
With the advancement of the police investigation, the businessman reailed the business. Construservice practically failed to participate in bids, while EDP Infrastructure, which has it as a formal partner, began to accumulate public contracts.
Since 2023, the company has signed paving contracts that total at least R $ 525.9 million with governments from states and municipalities of Maranhão, Tocantins, Rondônia, Goiás and São Paulo. Of this amount, about R $ 10 million are agreements with federal funds.
The company also received, in the same period, $ 90 million for contracts with the government of Maranhão.
Construservice was already one of the main benefits of paving services in the region. It only won from the state government more than $ 1 billion since 2020. The growth took place in the management of and was consolidated in the current government of Carlos Brandão (PSB). But Construservice has failed to sign new contracts in the state since 2023.
How it showed the SheetEduardo DP while expanding businesses. Today Minister of the Supreme Court (STF), involving Juscelino and the entrepreneur.
In December 2022, during an interview with the Roda Viva program. He said he had no “commitment” to companies or “friendly businessman”. “I never favored, never pursued, this is the correct conduct, under the principle of impersonality.”
In a statement, the Government of Maranhão said that “pays for legally contracted and delivered works, regardless of having been hired in previous governments.” He said he did not yet have “control over statements and/or third party reviews”, referring to Eduardo DP’s speech indicating proximity to Governor Brandão.
The businessman is the son of Arlene Costa, former mayor of Dom Pedro (MA). He even planned a candidacy for public office, but gave up. He was arrested four times between 2015 and 2016 in loan investigations, corruption and bid fraud.
In July 2022, which is luxury items in his house. Police operation aimed suspicions of fraud in bids and deviations from federal federal funds from state Codevasf.
One day after this last arrest, the then president (PL) appointed lawyer Téssio da Silva Torres, Larissa’s brother and brother -in -law of Eduardo DP, at the TRT (Regional Labor Court) of the 22nd Region, based in Teresina. Torres is the current president of the Court.
The PF started to investigate Juscelino after finding messages between him and Eduardo DP on the businessman’s cell phone seized in an operation. As, the messages show dialogues of the businessman and Juscelino about the execution of works and the destination of the amendments.
Juscelino was indicted in June last year, money laundering, passive corruption, ideological falsehood and bid fraud.
The content of the PGR complaint against him has not yet been disclosed. Sought, Eduardo DP’s defense said it has not yet been notified of any complaint against the businessman.
In a statement, Juscelino’s defense states that “the offer of a complaint does not imply guilt, nor can it serve as an instrument for the MP [Ministério Público] to guide the country. “” The trial is up to the Supreme Court, in whom Juscelino Filho trusts that he will reject the accusatory piece in the face of his manifest absence of evidence, “the defense said.
The same note says that the former minister “merely indicated parliamentary amendments to pay for works”, while the processes of bidding and execution of the work “are exclusive competence of the Executive Power”.
