The Court of Auditors of the Union asked the court of accounts to investigate the loan of , from , to Bianca Medeiros, the sister-in-law of the president of the Chamber of Deputies, (PP-PB).
and was used to buy the land of an old cement factory in João Pessoa (PB), as revealed by Sheet.
The representation, signed by attorney Lucas Furtado, asks the TCU to verify whether there was direct or indirect use of “public resources, subsidies, guarantees or financing lines of state origin, including those operated through public funds, public banks or official development programs” in the loan.
“It is a fact that private banks often operate with resources from public funds, such as BNDES, constitutional funds, sectoral funds and transfer lines, in addition to being able to act as financial agents for official programs,” he wrote.
The representation also requests an analysis of the “conduct of the Central Bank of Brazil in supervising the Master Bank, especially with regard to transparency, risk management, compliance and the prevention of conflicts of interest or favoritism arising from personal relationships with political agents”.
For Furtado, the kinship between Bianca and Hugo Motta “reinforces public interest and the need for careful examination, given the potential risk to the image of institutions and the possibility of possible privileged use of credit lines fed by public resources.”
The representation requests precautionary measure from Banco Master for the full preservation of all documents related to the loan and to prevent any transfer, assignment or other form of restructuring in the financing.
In the requested injunction, Furtado also includes a request to Banco Centra for the loan to be monitored individually. Furthermore, for the monetary authority to inform the “supervisory measures adopted, the results of any inspections or ongoing procedures, as well as the origin of the resources used by Banco Master to back the reported operation”.
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