A must investigate the possible connection between one of the servants of the ministers of the (Supreme Federal Court) and a former member of the Federal Revenue in the management of (PL).
According to three people familiar with the investigations, fiscal auditor Ricardo Mansano de Moraes, target of last Tuesday’s operation (17) on suspicion of accessing information linked to members of the Supreme Court, is related to Ricardo Pereira Feitosa, who was head of intelligence at the beginning of the Bolsonaro government.
of tax auditor in 2023, after the Sheet reveal that he unmotivatedly accessed and copied confidential tax data from people considered disaffected by the then President of the Republic. Before taking on the role of national head of intelligence at the IRS, in 2019, Feitosa worked in the agency’s office in Cuiabá.
Mansano was targeted by the PF this week on suspicion of accessing the data of a former stepdaughter of minister Gilmar Mendes, daughter of lawyer Guiomar Feitosa. The operation was launched by order of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the STF.
In the statement to the PF, according to a report heard by the Sheetthe server argued that he accessed Maria Carolina Feitosa’s data because he was, in fact, looking for data from a person linked to Ricardo Feitosa himself, the former head of Revenue Intelligence. Feitosa and Mansano worked together in Cuiabá.
Investigators, however, are suspicious of this version presented by the tax auditor and believe it is necessary to clarify whether, in fact, Mansano had any type of joint action with Feitosa. To this end, the investigation must include breaking the server’s telephone and tax confidentiality, to also find out whether he received money after accessing Guiomar’s data.
This Thursday (19), of Tax Credit and Credit Law Management, in Presidente Prudente (SP), where he worked at the Revenue Secretariat. He entered the public service in 1995 through a competitive examination.
Feitosa’s lawyer says that his client has no relationship with the facts investigated within the scope of the STF investigation and that he did not ask or authorize the auditor to access his or his relatives’ tax data at any time.
Mansano’s defense states that he is a “professional with an unblemished reputation who, over years of work with the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service, has never responded to any functional absence.” When asked about her client’s relationship with Feitosa, she did not comment and said that a new position will be released when she obtains full access to the accusations and the respective investigation elements.
The PF is also investigating whether there is a connection between the president of Unafisco (National Association of Tax Auditors of the Federal Revenue of Brazil), Kleber Cabral, and Feitosa. The representative of part of the IRS auditors gave testimony this Friday (20). Publicly, he stated that he saw exaggerations in Alexandre de Moraes’ decision and defended Mansano.
The entity’s president has publicly criticized the STF’s decisions on suspected data leaks from court ministers. In interviews, Cabral stated that one of the auditors allegedly involved was the target of a “false positive” by the court. He also said that the case was being treated disproportionately.
Last Tuesday, the PF carried out four search and seizure warrants in , and , in an investigation investigating possible leaks of Revenue data involving STF ministers and their relatives.
In addition to Mansano, the targets of the operation were Luiz Antônio Martins Nunes (a server at Serpro, a state-owned data processing company, which was assigned to the tax authorities), Luciano Pery Santos Nascimento and Ruth Machado dos Santos.
