The Central Bank (BC) states, in a note, that the Director of Inspection, Ailton de Aquino, states that he “never recommended the acquisition of fraudulent portfolios” from Banco Master to Banco de Brasília (BRB). Also according to the statement, Aquino made the record of his conversations with the former president of the BRB, Paulo Henrique Costa, available to the Federal Public Ministry and the Federal Police.
“Imbued with his commitment to transparency and aware of his responsibilities as a public servant and as a citizen, director Ailton de Aquino makes his banking and tax information and records of the conversations he held with the former President of BRB, Paulo Henrique Costa, available to the Federal Public Ministry and the Federal Police, renouncing, for this purpose, the secrecy surrounding them”, informs the BC.
The note comes in response to the news published by the newspaper The Globewho stated, based on reports and messages obtained by the report, that the director had asked the then president of BRB to acquire Master’s payroll loan portfolios, which were later exposed as fraudulent.
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In the statement, the BC emphasizes that the authority’s supervision area, under the command of Aquino, was responsible for identifying inconsistencies in the aforementioned operations, “having immediately carried out rigorous investigations, which led to the demonstration of the insufficiency of the assets comprising such portfolios”. Amendment that came from this same area as the initiative to promote the communication of criminal offenses to the MPF, accompanied by supporting documentation and technical analyses.
“Subsequently, with the objective of preventing the practice of new operations with impacts on BRB’s liquidity, the supervisory area, under the guidance of the same director, applied a preventive prudential measure to BRB, with the director himself, finally, taking the initiative to submit to the Collegiate Board of the Central Bank the proposal for extrajudicial liquidation of the Master Conglomerate’s institutions, including due to the illicit acts perpetrated in them”, he adds.
The BC states that each financial institution, according to current legislation, has “the exclusive and full responsibility for analyzing the quality of the credits it acquires on the market, and must maintain the procedures and internal controls necessary for the adequate management of the risks of its business”.
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It also says that the authority has a legal obligation to permanently monitor liquidity conditions, including acquisitions of assets between financial institutions, aiming to ensure the stability of the National Financial System and protect the interests of depositors, investors and other creditors. It points out that, in carrying out this mandate, the supervisory area routinely monitors risks and seeks solutions for any liquidity problems that may be identified in each and every financial institution.
