The Organized Crime CPI approved the breaking of banking and tax secrecy of the Arleen Fund, responsible for purchasing the stake in the company owned by Federal Supreme Court (STF) Minister Dias Toffoli in the Tayayá resort, in Paraná.
With the measure, parliamentarians seek to circumvent the impediment of access to the accounts of Maridt, Toffoli’s company, which had its confidentiality broken by the CPI, in a decision later reversed by order from Minister Gilmar Mendes, of the STF.
The request, presented by senator Sergio Moro, stipulates breaks in the interval between February 9, 2021 and January 29, 2026.
Documents from the Paraná Board of Trade show that Arleen became a partner in the venture on September 27, 2021 when he bought Maridt’s stake, for around R$20 million. Arleen, in turn, has another fund as its sole shareholder, Leal, which belongs to businessman Fabiano Zettel, brother-in-law of Daniel Vorcaro, owner of Banco Master.
Last week, the CPI had already broken Zettel’s banking, tax, telematics and telephone secrecy.
As shown The GlobeZettel handled R$99.2 million in seven months, an amount “incompatible with financial capacity”, according to the Financial Activities Control Council (Coaf). Account inflows and outflows were recorded between June 2021 and January 2022.
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The transactions mapped in the bank account coincide with the period in which Zettel purchased Toffoli’s company’s stake in Tayayá. The report shows that the businessman transferred a total of R$25.6 million divided into eleven transfers to the Leal fund. Four transfers were detailed by Coaf: July 20, 2021, July 29, 2021, September 20, 2021 and November 3, 2021. The dates are close to the entrepreneur’s entry into society in the venture.
Leal was under the management of Reag, a connection that formally motivated the request approved by the board.
In a note released when the case came to light, Toffoli reported that Maridt, a company in which he is a partner, sold its share in the Tayayá group to the Arleen fund “at market value”. In the text, the minister declared that “he never received any amount from Daniel Vorcaro or his brother-in-law Fabiano Zettel” and that the sale of the company to the Arleen fund took place, in fact, in September 2021.
Toffoli left the rapporteurship of the Master case at the Supreme Court after the revelation of a Federal Police report that cited messages from Vorcaro and Zettel discussing payments to the STF minister’s company. After a meeting between the 11 members of the Court, there was a new draw, and André Mendonça was chosen.
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Martha Graeff, and rejected, in a prominent vote, the request to hear the president of the PL, Valdemar Costa Neto.
Martha entered the CPI’s radar based on messages and notes seized in investigations into Banco Master and must provide clarifications on conversations related to the case. She also has a statement scheduled at the INSS CPI next Monday.
