Circulating at the high levels of the nuclear industry, he wants to leave the case of his former head’s Saudi jewelry in the past. “It’s a back page,” he told the Sheet During the largest event in the sector, the atomic week, in.
Admiral Albuquerque, 67, was indicted in June last year for the episode in which he tried to detangle jewelry given by the Saudi government on the return of a visit to the deserted kingdom in October 2021.
In testimony, he said he understood that one of diamonds would be for Bolsonaro’s wife, Michelle, and another pen and clock, for the then president.
The explanation did not convince the Federal Police, but so far there has been no complaint by the Attorney General’s Office on the case, which according to the accusation were diverted to the former Mandanician’s profit.
“They never searched me again,” he said in a quick conversation after their lecture at the legendary event of events of the VDNKH Soviet era in the north of the Russian capital. The event is promoted by Rosatom, the Russian giant who is one of the main actors of the nuclear field.
In July, the Presidency’s Ethics Committee to Albuquerque by the case, which has no practical effect. “This doesn’t worry me. It was a political decision, absurd,” he said.
In his new incarnation, after nearly five decades of Navy and three years in the Bolsonaro government, the Admiral has a stellar reputation. Since 2024 he has been a consultant to the nuclear area of Diamond Energia – the ironic name of the company, in the context, has been removed from its main business, in Santa Catarina.
The company is not immune to involvement in political plots. She is led by the nephew of Mandachuva do, Pedro, next to businessman Jorge Nemr. Both are in Moscow with Albuquerque and other diamond members.
The company is the beneficiary of a project approved in 2022 that extended by 2040 the obligation to buy energy from the pollutant matrix of coal, which has the largest facility in the country.
“There is no conflict of interest,” said Albuquerque. According to him, when politicians Santa Catarina presented their demand in support of the project, the park was still EU sold the operation in the background that formed the diamond in 2021.
The company’s name returned to the news in two reports this year in Sheet. One showed that jabutis embedded in projects in Congress could facilitate the installation of a gas thermoelectric plant in the region of Brasilia, an initiative of diamond and businessman Jorge Suarez.
Another, which the government hired compulsory energy purchase generated in Jorge Lacerda by other consumers.
In either case, the company denies any political favors in the sector, whose Kassab PSD – that, in turn, has nothing to do with the nephew’s business, who declined to talk to journalists in Moscow.
The lecture by Albuquerque, given in English, was in a panel on the so -called modular nuclear reactors, miniaturized atomic plants that can be placed in barges and brought to distant regions.
Diamond has associated themselves with Russian Rosatom, from the world and has already shown interest in expanding its space in the Brazilian market. A project of R $ 60 million, R $ 35 million, by Finep Public Agency, intends to set up nuclear microorrectors, even more practical for employment in distant communities.
From the nuclear sector, Deputy Julio Lopes (Progressists-RJ) advocates an urgent change in legislation to facilitate partnership with Russians and other actors in the market.
“There is no impediment to the participation of minority, but the market has fears. It takes a decree on the subject, a provisional measure. Minister Silveira will announce this in the coming days,” he said in Moscow. Playing at the same octave, Albuquerque said, “We need clear regulation,” he said.
His journey in the nuclear world made him interlocutor, president of the AIEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), linked to the UN. Last week, they were together in Vienna, headquarters of the organ, and Grossi is also in Moscow.
The journalist travels at the invitation of Rosatom
