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The Federal Police () suspected money laundering in the transaction that involved the purchase of a mansion of $ 22 million, later demolished and transformed into the garden of the mansion. The business, which involved businessman Maurício Camisotti, suspected of controlling three entities of the undue discounts about retirees by the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), was revealed by Metrópoles.
Wilians is investigated by the PF on suspicion of laundering Camisotti from the INSS’s spree.
The suspicion was raised by the PF when requesting the arrest of Nelson Wilians and Camisotti under the unfolding of the discount, which investigates the INSS’s spree. The request was endorsed by Minister André Mendonça, from the Federal Triubunal (STF), to the businessman. It was, however, rejected to the lawyer. In the same operation, was also arrested the lobbyist Antonio Carlos Camilo Antunes, the “Bald of the INSS”.
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As Metrópoles showed in November 2020, the businessman acquired, for R $ 22 million, a mansion in Jardim Europa, noble Paulistano neighborhood. The family mansion bought by Camisotti was from the family of the late businessman Abílio Diniz and neighboring to Wilian. It was demolished, had the walls knocked down, and the land was eventually attached to the garden of the lawyer’s house. The property never moved to the name of Wilians.
According to the PF, it caused “strangeness” to “Nelson Willians demonstrate so much interest in previously justifying his financial transactions with Maurício Camisotti, especially in view of the wide dissemination of the subject by the Metrópoles newspaper since 2024, reinforces the criminal hypothesis of the determination by indicating that he considered himself the target of the operation to the point of determining the concealment of part of his heritage”.
“The justifications presented range from alleged real estate operations – nonexistent in official databases – and alleged advances in advance, which were not identified in the personal or business accounts of both,” said the PF.
“It is also noteworthy that both Nelson Willians and Maurício Camisotti are the holders of numerous communications to Coaf, which point to a strong indication of suspicious financial movements, carried out through overlapping people and companies, with evident spraying of resources and concealment of final beneficiaries,” says the PF.
The Metropolis revealed in 2024 that the Financial Activities Control Council (COAF) had identified transfers of R $ 15.5 million from the lawyer to Camisotti. In the Federal Police -free operation, Coaf reports brought to the surface of Wilian movements, in the amount of R $ 4.3 billion, between 2019 and 2024.
Coaf report showed Nelson Wilian atypical millionaire payments to Maurício Camisotti
Health plan
Most of the transactions between the lawyer and the entrepreneur, in a total of R $ 12 million, was made between 2016 and 2020, when companies linked to Camisotti, such as Prevident, and the Nelson Wilian board, were service providers of Geap, the health plan of federal public servants who have in their council and board political nominations and was a political fiefdom of PP and PT.
In 2019, in the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, military personnel were nominated by the government and rescinded contracts with Camisotti and Wilians on the grounds that they harmed. Judicial battles between the health plan of servers, Camisotti and Wilians drag on to this day in the Judiciary of Brasilia. In this fight, the lawyer has already defended PREVIDENT against GEAP.
Called to the bank to explain Willians’ transfers, Camisotti said the values were loans he took with the lawyer. Most of the transactions were from the time when companies linked to Camisotti and Wilian law board provided services to the Federal Public Servants Health Plan, GEAP – both had terminated contracts.
In addition to defending himself, the lawyer also represented Camisotti companies in court disputes against Geap after the termination of contracts. Then, when Camisotti created entities to make a retirees’ associative monthly fee discounts, directly on the payroll, through the INSS agreements, Wilians began to advocate for one of the associations, Ambec, which earned about $ 30 million a month.
Defense
In a statement, Nelson Wilians stated that he has collaborated with the authorities and that “trusts that the investigation will demonstrate its total innocence.” He also said that the connection between him and one of the investigated S restricts to the professional relationship.
“Nelson Wilians has stated earlier that his relationship with one of the investigated-his client in the legal field-is strictly professional and legal, which will be proven in a thorough manner. The values transferred by him refer to the acquisition of a terrain neighboring his residence, lawful and easily proven transaction,” he says.
“We emphasize that the measure fulfilled is exclusively investigative in nature, not implying any judgment of guilt or responsibility. The lawyer remains available to provide all necessary clarifications and reaffirms his commitment to legality and transparency,” he wrote.
Already the defense of businessman Maurício Camisotti states that there is no reason that justifies his arrest in the context of the operation that investigates frauds in the INSS and points to an “arbitrariness” allegedly committed during the police action.
According to lawyers, Camisotti had his cell phone taken from his hands just as he spoke to his lawyer. “Such conduct violates basic constitutional guarantees and is equivalent to embarrassing a investigated to speak or produce proof against oneself,” the defense says.
“The defense reiterates that it will adopt all appropriate legal measures to reverse the prison and ensure full respect for the entrepreneur’s fundamental rights and guarantees,” the note concludes.
