Joana Prado is suspected of removing $ 7.7 million and compensation from coach Oswaldo de Oliveira and soccer players since 2022; She says she is a shutter
The (Federal Police) investigates lawyer Joana Prado de Oliveira on suspicion of unauthorized looting and retention of values of processes of soccer players and coach Oswaldo de Oliveira. There are $ 7.7 million under investigation. The total includes values allegedly taken from 7 FGTS accounts since 2022.
On Tuesday (5.ago.2025), the coach made a complaint to the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police. According to the investigation, the looting would have occurred without the consent of the victims. Among the affected players, only Juninho, a former Botafogo athlete, confirmed that he authorized the withdrawal, but said the lawyer did not informed him about the withdrawal and did not pass the amounts.
Oswaldo de Oliveira, who commanded large Brazilian clubs such as Flamengo, Fluminense, Botafogo and Vasco, claims to have an estimated loss of R $ 3.1 million.
“I’ve been without working for 6 years. I have economies, but they are perennial and I need my money, which I worked, to survive. My survival depends on what I planted, what I worked in 50 years of career, right?” declared Oswaldo de Oliveira to.
Peruvian striker Paolo Guerrero, who acted in Corinthians, Flamengo and Internacional, says he has a loss of $ 2.2 million. Former player Ramires, who has tickets for Cruzeiro, Chelsea, Palmeiras and Brazilian National Team, said he had lost approximately $ 1 million.
About the professional relationship with the lawyer, the coach said: “We hired her service so that she advocated in our favor. Since then, she has access our trust and we think it is good to transfer some legal cases..
Oswaldo said most of his loss came from indemnities not received in labor debt proceedings in Corinthians and Fluminense. He won the 2 actions. “It was about $ 2 million. She kept saying that we had no receipt. Every time we tried to access the processes, we couldn’t. ”
In November 2024, the lawyer signed a court agreement recognizing that he had received and retained the amounts, committing herself to return them, but did not comply with the arrangement. “She said: I will pay and signed. Only did not fulfill the agreement and, therefore, we are triggering Dr. Joana”said the coach.
According to documents presented to G1Joana Prado stopped passing R $ 2.3 million regarding the action against Corinthians and R $ 220 thousand of the action against Fluminense. In a range of one year, 10 withdrawals of the technician’s FGTS accounts were held, totaling R $ 589.1 thousand. Among these withdrawals, a value of R $ 211 thousand was referring to FGTS during the period when Oswaldo worked at Vasco.
“My wife, as a lawyer, went to see and ended up finding that I was also injured in several installments of my guarantee fund”said Oswaldo.
Also according to the report, documents show that the amounts were transferred from CEF (Caixa Econômica Federal) to an account on behalf of the lawyer. The withdrawals would have involved values deposited by several clubs where the coach worked: Atlético-MG, Vasco da Gama, Corinthians, Sport, Botafogo, Flamengo and Santos.
In a statement, Joana Prado said she was the victim of a blow. In the statement, she says that “Facing financial difficulties, whose origin is related to a scam from which it was a victim” and which presented criminal news to the PF. The lawyer also stated that “The necessary measures are already being taken for the proper repair” and reiterated “Vehesence, that there was no bad faith or intention to cause damage”.
The investigation goes on to investigate the accusations of estelionate, misappropriation and falsification of documents. It is not yet known how the lawyer was able to access FGTS accounts without permission of the victims, nor if there are other athletes or football professionals affected besides those already identified.
