A mansion measuring around 500 square meters in Lago Sul, in Brasília, was allegedly used by the investment company Fictor as a base for political lobbying and coordination around the INSS CPI, according to a newspaper report The State of S. Paulo.
The company would have rented the property through a former partner, Luis Phillippi Rubini, and transformed it into a type of “business house”, with Fictor’s identity even in the name of the Wi-Fi network, according to the newspaper.
According to the Estadãothe mansion hosted at least one event with the presence of PT ministers and leaders, including the then president of the party, Gleisi Hoffmann, and the then minister of Institutional Relations, Alexandre Padilha, as well as the general director of Itaipu, Ênio Verri.
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A Fictor consultant, Felipe Alcântara, would have tried to use the approach to offer that the company or a manager appointed by it manage up to R$1 billion from a binational hydroelectric reserve fund – a proposal that ended up not moving forward due to legal restrictions, according to the report.
The newspaper also reports that the property was the scene of a meeting involving federal deputy Paulo Pimenta (PT-RS), PT leader in the CPMI of the INSS, and former civil police officer Rogério Giglio, who had recorded lawyer Eli Cohen and accused him of asking the Bolsonaro bench for money to testify against the government.
Giglio, however, later recanted in a notary’s office and stated to the Estadão who was paid by Fictor representatives to lie and produce material against Cohen, with the aim of supplying the government wing of the commission.
According to the EstadãoAlcântara admits to having organized the meeting and states that he tried to “offer” the case to the PT members, while Pimenta says that he did not know that the house was linked to Fictor and that he considered the evidence presented by Giglio to be fragile, although he used the audio to request a new summons for Cohen to the CPI.
Lawyer Renato de Matteo Reginatto, named by Giglio as the person who recruited him to work for Fictor, denies the version and claims professional secrecy; Rubini, in turn, claims to have never met the former police officer and denies any involvement in the events described.
Lawyer Eli Cohen, who denounced billion-dollar fraud involving associations linked to the INSS and says he is the target of “reputational lynching”, defended the newspaper for a rigorous investigation into the alleged fabrication of evidence, the actions of Fictor and the use of political structures to target whistleblowers.
