The Minister of Finance, says that Operation Hidden Carbon represents an innovation in facing organized crime in. In an interview with “free canal”, from Bandwhich airs on Sunday (31), Haddad said the scheme reached the financial market, but not the traditional. “When we talk about Faria Lima, I’m not talking about the traditional financial market. I’m talking about people who made so much money that started renting floors from the most chic buildings in town,” he said.
Haddad stressed that the numbers at stake are expressive and tend to grow as the findings advance. “I have no doubt that with the deepening of investigations, the operation would reach hundreds of billions of reais washed for organized crime,” he said. Only in, he recalled, R $ 52 billion moved. “To reach 100, 200, 300 (billions).. Not needs much,” he added.
In another passage released by Bandthe minister spoke about the impacts of the negative repercussion of the IRS attempt to monitor movements via Pix. According to Haddad, the video released by the deputy (PL-MG), which has dozens of millions of views, damaged investigations from false information. “I think that fake news was intended to create controversy, gain visibility, seal,” he said, considering that attitude has not aimed to favor criminal organizations. The minister explained that, given the repercussion, the auditors were forced to carry out part of the inspection manually.
Hidden carbon
Launched by the IRS in partnership with the Ministry of Justice, the Federal Police, the Public Prosecution Service and state agencies, Operation Hidden Carbon is considered the largest ever held in the country against criminal organizations in the formal economy. The target was a billionaire scheme of fraud in the fuel sector, which used fintechs, investment funds, and cash output networks and hide equity.
The findings show that a fintech who worked as a parallel bank moved $ 46 billion in five years. Also part of the scheme, about 40 funds were used to protect estimated illicit assets of $ 30 billion.
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Nicolas Robert
