The mayor of, (), has been a partner since 2022 of a businessman who was the target of search and seizure in the last phase of, who aims to deviate public funds, and money laundering with resources from parliamentary amendments.
Overclean, whose first phase was triggered in December last year, has among its target people who were proximity to the political group of Reis, who is the political godson of former Soteropolitan mayor.
Among those cited in the investigations is the. Because of these mentions, Overclean’s inquiry started to be processed in the (Federal Supreme Court), under the rapporteur of the minister. His content is under confidentiality.
Bruno Reis’s partner is businessman Samuca Silva Franco, 51, who operates in Ilhéus, in southern Bahia.
Samuca became suspicious for, according to the Federal Police, having received money from companies considered as a façade, simulating fictitious services and emitting cold invoices.
From material seized in the previous phases of the operation and financial transactions analysis, it was identified that the entrepreneur received R $ 200 thousand from one of these companies, Bra Teles Ltda., In March last year, and R $ 373,500 from BRA Teles and FAP Participações Ltda. “Another of the investigators.” Between April 2022 and March 2024.
It is also quoted in conversations among other investigated. Samuca is a partner of a series of companies, a large area of expertise: range from real estate to mineral extraction and also in the lease of aircraft.
Bruno Reis has been mayor of Salvador since 2021 and is in his second term. In May 2022, he bought Samuca Quotas from Spe Vento Sul Empreendimentos Imobiliários Ltda, according to documents registered with JUCEB (Bahia Commercial Board).
At the time, the company had 95% of its social capital represented by Samuca. The mayor bought 10% of the venture’s quotas, in the amount of R $ 60 thousand, through the company BB Patrimonial, which he divides society with his children. At the time, other partners also became part of the business.
SPE, according to its corporate purpose, operates in the area of ”purchase, sale and exchange of own real estate”, “incorporation and allotment of urban and rural areas”, as well as construction, administration and leasing of its own goods.
In addition to society, Bruno Reis has already shown proximity to Samuca on other occasions. In a video released on the social networks of a closed event, the mayor praises the businessman and says he talks to him often on the phone, usually when leaving the gym, on the way home.
“You know of my friendship, my affection, my love, but especially the admiration I have for this guy here, a brother that life gave me, Samuca Franco,” says the mayor of Salvador.
In the video, Bruno says he receives calls from Samuca every day, with words of stimulus and support, and cited the businessman’s real estate business. Beside the two, at the event, was ACM Neto.
Sought by the report, Bruno Reis said, in a statement issued by his advisory, that “the project quoted is an investment in the real estate field in Ilhéus, southern Bahia, without any political or public sector binding, so it is related to private area.”
“For this project, an area of R $ 600 thousand was acquired for the implementation of a subdivision, with the participation of ten partners. BB Patrimonial, of which Bruno Reis is a partner, acquired 10% of the venture, with a cost of R $ 60 thousand. The mayor points out that the project has no binding with the facts being determined.”
A Sheet could not locate Samuca Silva Franco or his lawyers.
The third phase of the operation was triggered on the last day 3 by the Federal Police and the Comptroller General of the Union. The warrants were fulfilled in Salvador, São Paulo Belo Horizonte and Aracaju.
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Bruno Barral was secretary of education of the Bahian capital between 2017 and 2020, under the management of ACM Neto, by appointment of the PSDB.
Overclean point out the performance of a criminal group that would have hit the DNOCS (National Department of Works against Drought), a body linked to the Ministry of National Integration, especially in Bahia.
The group, according to the PF, directed resources of parliamentary amendments and agreements to companies linked to municipal administrations, with overpricing of works and financial deviations. He would have moved about R $ 1.4 billion in fraudulent contracts and overpriced works.
Crimes of active and passive corruption, embezzlement, fraud in bids and contracts, money laundering and obstruction of justice are determined.
In the first phase of the operation, in December, the Federal Police served 43 search and seizure warrants, 17 of pre -trial detention and orders for kidnapping of assets.
Among the prisoners were entrepreneurs and brothers Alex Rezende Parente and Fábio Rezende Parente, as well as Lucas Lobão, who commanded Dnocs in Bahia during the government ().
Also arrested was the businessman José Marcos de Moura, known as “King of the Garbage”, who worked in the urban cleaning sector and was a member of the Union Brazil National Summit.
The arrests were (Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region), which determined that the suspects use electronic anklet and do not keep in touch with other investigated.
