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The advance in the investigation of one of the most delicate points of fraud in public tenders: money. The inquiry, which dismantles a family criminal organization, points to millionaire movements and paves the way for the responsibility of not only the articulators, but also of the “clients” who paid to win public positions of prestige.
The breach of bank secrecy authorized by the court seeks to track the flow of values that fueled the scheme. The first tracks also appeared in 2024, at Operation Before of the Paraíba Civil Police, when transactions between Wanderson Gabriel de Brito Limeira, son of leader Wanderlan Limeira de Sousa, and Bianca Paskelina Pereira Freire, candidate caught with electronic point in his ear.
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Millionaire damage to the treasury
The account for the public coffers is high. An illicit approved server for the position of Labor Tax Auditor, whose initial remuneration exceeds R $ 22,000, can cost more than R $ 7 million in salaries over 30 years, without including benefits and retirement.
With at least ten suspicious approvals already identified in the 2024 Unified National Competition (CNU), only this nucleus represents a potential loss of more than R $ 70 million.
The sum can be much higher if fraud in other events, such as those of the Civil Police of Pernambuco and Alagoas, Caixa Econômica Federal, Banco do Brasil and Federal University of Paraíba.
Facades and money laundering
The PF also investigates signs of washing. Ariosvaldo Lucena de Sousa Junior, a military police officer from Rio Grande do Norte and approved fraudulently at the CNU, has a dental clinic in Patos (PB), a city where he does not reside.
For investigators, the business may have worked as a facade to give the fraud money lawful.
In the last phase operation, a safe seized at the house of one of the investigated can reveal documents, values in kind and proof of payments made by the candidates.
Who are the “customers”?
In addition to the family gang, PF works to identify all candidates who bought their approvals.
One of the highlight is a woman who has accumulated careers in high competition, from medicine to fiscal audit, with the identical template of leader Wanderlan. Other names follow under confidentiality.
To ensure compensation to the purse, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office requested the abduction of assets of the investigated, preventing illicit accumulated assets from being dissipated. The objective is to ensure that, in case of conviction, part of the damage is reversed to the public coffers.
