The Public and Social Heritage Prosecutor’s Office of the Public Ministry of São Paulo opened a civil inquiry, this Friday (5), to analyze the possibility of judicial intervention in Corinthians. The information was initially published by ge.globo and confirmed by Itatiaia.
On November 18, the responsible for investigations into the use of the corporate card in past Corinthians administrations, suggested to the Public and Social Heritage Public Prosecutor’s Office the establishment of judicial intervention in the club.
The document presented is 55 pages long and lists 25 reasons that would justify the opening of a public civil action. Because he works in the criminal area, Cassio could not propose intervention.
Now, the case will be investigated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which may request measures such as presenting documents, collecting statements and carrying out expert examinations. This procedure may result in the filing of a public civil action.
Arguments presented for judicial intervention
- Reports from external auditors with notes of irregularities;
- Corinthians is a cultural heritage, whose protection is the responsibility of the Public Ministry;
- Complaint offered and received against former president Augusto Melo, among others, for criminal association and money laundering;
- Complaint filed against former president Andres Sanches and then financial manager of the current administration, Roberto Gavioli, for misappropriation and money laundering;
- Investigations into other former presidents in progress;
- Investigation at the Police Station for the Repression of Sports Intolerance Rights into a large amount of diversion of sports equipment by leaders of the current administration;
- Inoperative compliance system;
- The signature by the former president and financial manager, who also works in the current management, of confessions of debts that were then extinguished by prescription;
- Centralized Execution Regime not complied with and not approved, including contracts harmful to the club;
- Request for judicial intervention formulated by a creditor in the files of the Centralized Execution Regime;
- Reckless management when assuming the third largest payroll in the country;
- Supposedly cold notes issued by Oliveira Minimercado, cited as a shell company, with Corinthians as its only client, whose values came from the club’s coffers;
- Occurrence reports informing suppression of documents within the club;
- Evidence of the presence of organized crime substantiated in the payment of commissions by VAIDEBET to a company allegedly linked to organized crime;
- Professional athletes installed in an apartment owned by “Alemão” (José Carlos Gonçalves), an alleged member of a criminal organization;
- Gas stations allegedly linked to organized crime licensed under the Corinthians brand;
- Receipt of payment by Corinthians to former parliamentary advisor to former president André Sanchez, target of ministerial investigation, linked to a criminal faction involving the use of urban transport cooperatives in São Paulo;
- Failure to comply with the statute for the impeachment of Augusto Melo, whose delivery of the minutes of the current Deliberative Council was withheld, despite a court order;
- Use of corporate cards by former managers, even after the end of their mandates;
- Priceless debt, according to reports from independent external professionals;
- Threat to a witness perpetrated by an investigator in the case of the diversion of sports materials, then a member of the current management;
- Fifa transferban worth millions of dollars due to non-payment of athletes;
- Practice of acts that may characterize reckless management within the sporting entity;
- Institutional disorganization of financial management, with omission of deliberative and control bodies;
- Dozens of other possible irregularities involving dubious contracts, TV Corinthians, hiring of base players, licensing of brands with payment of insignificant royalties to the club, contracts with leonine clauses, relationships with shell companies or ghosts under investigation by the Public Ministry.
Shareholder action
At the same time, a group of Parque São Jorge partners, called “Salvem o Corinthians”, articulates another request for judicial intervention in Timão. The plan is still in its embryonic stage, but those involved are working to gather support and signatures in the coming months.
The tendency is for the collective to present the consolidated document to the São Paulo Court at the beginning of next year. In addition to the action still being under construction, care must be taken to wait for the end of the current season, so as not to interfere in the sporting sphere, and also the Judiciary recess, which is approaching.
