After spending the morning and early afternoon of Thursday (14) counting the banknotes, the PF (Federal Police) accounting R$ 3.312.260,58 in kind seized at different addresses of suspects of integrating a criminal scheme attached to the São Bernardo do Campo City Hall (SP).
The money was collected in the houses of entrepreneurs of the earthmoving branches, medicines and exports, as well as the residence of a municipal server. In these places, the police found R$ 3.225.552,15 in notes of R$ 20, R$ 50 e R$ 100in addition to U$S 3.497 e € 10.740 In foreign currency, according to the investigation. The seizure is part of the operation that investigates suspicions of corruption and money laundering in the city of Greater ABC.
The capture of values happens in the midst of the In the wake an operation performed this morning.
As the CNNIn addition to leaving the position temporarily, the politician will also have to wear an electronic anklet. PF investigates passive and active corruption, money laundering and criminal organization.
Also based on invoices and the mobile phone of the prisoner, the investigation of the PF points to a bond of the server with the mayor of the city located in ABC Paulista.
Police citize “diffuse payments” that emerged from city contracts with payments from companies from different segments, such as earthmoving, medicines and exports and imports.
PF agents have served two preventive arrests, 20 search and seizure warrants and measures to remove bank and fiscal secrecy.
In response to CNNthe City of São Bernardo said it will “collaborate with all the necessary information about the case.”
Already Somos, party of the mayor removed, said that recognizes the “great work” done by Marcelo Lima. The acronym adds that it trusts its work and says it is necessary “prudence” in “light” manifestations.
Who is Marcelo Lima, mayor away
Born in 1983, in the city of São Bernardo do Campo, It’s 42 years old.
Graduated in public management, he entered his political career as councilor in 2008, when he reached the 3,906 votes, becoming the youngest councilman of São Bernardo do Campo.
In 2022, he was elected federal deputy for solidarity. In the first year of office, he acted in the Finance and Taxation Commissions and Urban Development.
He did not end his time in the house, however, for wasting his term in 2023, as a result of a discharge without just cause of the solidarity party.
The caption, at the time, claimed that Marcelo de Lima Fernandes was elected using the financial and political structure of the acronym and later turned off without cause, which violates the legislation.
Shortly after taking over the City of São Bernardo do Campo, in January 2025, TRE-SP (Regional Electoral Court of São Paulo) sentenced Marcelo de Lima Fernandes and his deputy mayor, Jessica Paula, to pay a fine of R $ 5,320.50 for conduct prohibited in the 2024 elections.
*Published by Maria Clara Matos, with information from Elijonas Maia and Manoela Carlucci
