The Public Ethics Commission of the Presidency of the Republic determined an ethical censorship to the former Minister of Mines and Energy for his involvement in the case of the jewelry received by the former president on an official trip in 2021.
Ethical censorship is a record in the functional history of the server that remains for up to three years.
The decision was made by four votes by punishment and a contrary, by the rapporteur of the case, counselor Gheorgio Tomelin. The description of the case on the committee’s page points out that the punishment happened due to “anthetic conduct resulting from the transportation of luxury articles on official travel”.
Sought, the defense of the former minister and the Civil House, a body to which the commission is linked, did not respond.
On a trip to Saudi Arabia in September 2021, the then Minister of Mines and Energy Bento Albuquerque received one, containing a necklace, a pair of earrings, a ring and a wristwatch. This set was seized by the IRS at Guarulhos International Airport.
Another set of jewelry – male strings – was also brought to Brazil at the time, without being intercepted.
The former minister has always denied having committed any irregularity. He said that his entourage he received several gifts and that, when he came across the jewels, he supposed to have been sent to the first lady, as the entourage only carried gifts given to the Brazilian government.
The case led by the Federal Police on suspicion that there was a deviation or attempt to divert items whose market value reaches R $ 6.8 million.
Near the end of her term, says the PF, the former president set up an operation for retained.
Investigators say there was “an operation, to some extent desperate, to try to subtract the IRS retained by the IRS, in a timely manner to dispatch them on the presidential plane, which would take off on December 30, 2022 to the United States.”
In the case evaluated by the commission were also the former chief of the Historical Documentation Office of the presidency Marcelo da Silva Vieira and former Federal Revenue Secretary Julio César Vieira Gomes. Both were unanimously acquitted.
It is up to the agency to investigate, by letter or by complaint, attitudes that violate the Code of Professional Ethics or the Conflict of Interest Law, which prohibits the dissemination of privileged information for the benefit of third parties.
