The testimony of the president of Corinthians, Augusto Melo, in the Department of Citizenship Protection Police and the third police laundering, which has an inquiry to investigate the club’s contract with its former patrocinator Master, lasted the president.
The investigation began from the suspicions raised from the payment of the commission of R $ 25.2 million to Alex Fernando André, Alex Cassundé, which would have been the intermediary of the agreement, terminated in June last year.
Heard as investigated, Melo was one of the last people called by the police, who is expected to end the investigation by the first week of May, when the names of the persons who will be indicted will be announced.
Melo arrived at DPPC on Wednesday (16) around 14h, about an hour ahead of expected. He was accompanied by his lawyer, Augusto Cury, from the club’s advisory, and security.
On leaving the scene, he tried to convey tranquility about his statement. He said he had a “very cordial” conversation and that his “truth is one”.
Asked about Cassundé’s participation in the negotiations with Vaidebet, the top hat was interrupted by his lawyer. The defender argued that he guided his client to keep confidential about technical parts of the inquiry.
The agent, however, said again that his contact with the intermediary “was only there at the beginning and then the legal [do clube] He took care of everything “. According to him,” everything is documented. “
Before his client ended the brief interview, Augusto Melo’s lawyer commented on the fact that the president of Corinthians only answering the authorities’ questions in the final stretch of the investigation rather than being called to contribute from the beginning of the investigation.
“Who defines the pace, the continuation, is the police. We have no way to run over the rites,” argued Cury,
