A and (Comptroller General of the Union) and the Federal Revenue triggered on Thursday (17), the fifth phase of Operation Overclean, on deviations of amendments, which aimed the family of the deputy (União Brasil-BA).
The goal was to dismantle a criminal organization suspected of involvement in bidding fraud, diversion of public resources from parliamentary amendments, corruption and money laundering.
10 search warrants were fulfilled in Bahia cities such as Salvador, Campo Formoso, Senhor do Bonfim, Petrolina, Mata de São João and Brasilia, as well as an order of precautionary departure from a public servant from his duties.
All orders were authorized by the minister of (Supreme Federal Court).
The operation focused on contracts signed in 2022 by, through parliamentary amendments, with the municipality of Campo Formoso, city of the parliamentarian.
The targets of the operation of Elmar, Elmo Nascimento, who is the mayor of Campo Formoso, his cousin, councilman Francisco Nascimento, and former Codevasf president Marcelo Moreira, who was appointed by the parliamentarian to office, were targets. The deputy himself was not the target of searches.
The Supreme Court also determined the blockade of R $ 85.7 million in bank accounts of individuals and legal entities investigated.
The objective, according to a note from CGU and PF, was to interrupt the movement of values of illicit origin and preserve assets for eventual reparation to public coffers.
According to these bodies, the investigated nucleus acted in the manipulation of bidding procedures and diversion of public resources for the Municipality. This would have been done upon payment of improper advantage and obstruction of the investigation.
Crimes calculated include integrating criminal organization, embarrassment to investigation, active and passive corruption, embezzlement, bid fraud and administrative contracts and money laundering.
