Summoned by the Senate’s Organized Crime CPI to provide clarification on financial operations investigated in the Banco Master case, businessman João Carlos Mansur, founder of the management company Reag Investimentos, appeared before the commission this Wednesday, but chose to remain silent during his testimony.
The decision had already been anticipated by the businessman’s defense. Mansur obtained authorization from the Federal Supreme Court (STF) not to answer questions that could lead him to self-incrimination, which, in practice, led the lawyers to advise him not to answer any of the questions asked by the senators.
Given the information that the businessman would not answer the questions, the CPI rapporteur, senator Alessandro Vieira, stated that he would present some of the points he intended to address and criticized the stance adopted by the defense.
— Let’s not stay here rehearsing a theater of questions. The Master is a scandal (…) and for my part I end my participation — said the parliamentarian.
Afterwards, the president of the commission, senator Fabiano Contarato, highlighted that the CPI should respect the constitutional right of the deponent.
— It is necessary to respect the decision of the person being investigated — he said.
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Mansur is cited in investigations into financial operations considered atypical involving funds managed by Reag Investimentos and transactions that would have been made possible by loans from Banco Master. The businessman was the target of search and seizure in one of the phases of Operation Compliance Zero, conducted by the Federal Police to investigate suspected financial fraud related to the bank.
Even without answering the questions, the businessman’s presence was considered relevant by members of the CPI, who seek to clarify the role of fund managers and financial market operators in the transactions under investigation.
