Journalist Adilson Laranjeira, the former mayor’s press officer for more than three decades, died on the 25th, at 85.
He was at his house and died of natural causes while sleeping, according to the family. Although bedridden in the previous days, he was still lucid and accompanied by a caregiver.
Passing through the Folha group before becoming Maluf’s advisor, Laranjeira was marked by the politician’s emphatic defense before the press, repeating numerous times in official demonstrations and letters to newspapers that “Maluf not abroad”, staff on the contrary of official investigations that pointed to the presence of money from the former mayor outside Brazil.
The journalist’s body was veiled and buried in the Araçá Cemetery, in the family deposit, with his wife, Maria Aparecida, and her daughter, Janaína.
Orange had a closed and reserved profile, says niece Paola Asta. “I didn’t open it, telling a joke.” When she called if everything was okay, I said yes and would warn if she needed anything. “He was so much, I didn’t want to bother.”
Paola, his goddaughter and who organized the funeral, attributes the death of Laranjeira to the mourning for the loss of his wife, with whom he was married for almost 50 years. She died about three months ago. The niece says the uncle “was in peace” and that she is now “happy because she is with her family.” “The truth is that he died of love.”
Born on October 12, 1939, Laranjeira was head of a report at Sheet And he had a prominent performance at the Agência Folha, where he coordinated the production of reports of branches for the group’s newspapers, and in Folha da Tarde, amid the campaign with the mission of modernizing the coverage.
In the 1990s, he was hired as an advisor by Maluf. Laranjeira was marked by the emphasis of official demonstrations to counter who accused the former mayor. In 2002, he stated that a prosecutor was “”.
In a statement, Maluf’s family said he deeply regretted the journalist’s death “who dedicated more than 30 years of his career as Paulo Maluf’s press officer.” “We express our feelings and gratitude for professionalism and friendship.”
Confirmation of the journalist’s death was surrounded by noise. Former advisor, a friend of Maluf and one of the assiduous visits to the former mayor during the period he was arrested in 2018, Jesse Ribeiro even denying death.
“No way,” he told the report last week after reporting he called the Orange Casa and confirmed that he was alive, though sick.
The concessionaire of the Araçá Cemetery, the cortel, also denied having registered a wake and burial of Laranjeira on the site and, questioned again on Friday (5), continued to deny.
The report, however, was in the cemetery and confirmed the records, although there is no nominal plate identification in the grave yet.
The company said the information may not yet be available in a system because “updating records depends on the integration between different bodies and service providers”.
