Three months after the death of João Carlos Di Genio, an unknown company presented million-dollar charges based on contracts with his supposed signature
One trio of suspects are investigated for trying to carry out a million-dollar scam against the heirs of João Carlos Di Genio, businessman and founder of the Unip/Objetivo groupwho died in 2022 and left an inheritance estimated at R$16 billion. The information about the suspects was revealed in a report by the Fantastic, from TV Globo.
According to the article, a company unknown to the family presented, months after Di Genio’s death, a million-dollar charge based on contracts with allegedly forged signatures.
The police investigation resulted in the decree of nine preventive arrests; So far, one suspect has been arrested and the rest are considered fugitives.
Among the main investigated are:
– Luiz Teixeira da Silva Júnior, linked to the company that presented the charge;
– Rubens Maurício Bolorino, former civil police officer with experience in judicial decision-selling schemes;
– Wagner Rossi Silva, responsible for the entity used in the case;
– Jorge Alberto Rodrigues de Oliveira, appointed as facilitator of the group, who is in prison.
According to Fantástico, Luiz Teixeira appears to be linked to the company that presented the charge, which alleged a debt of hundreds of millions of reais for an alleged purchase of land — negotiation that the family claims to be unaware of. Experts indicated that the businessman’s signatures had been copied from original documents and digitally inserted into contracts considered false.
After the refusal of the common court, the group turned to an arbitration chamber to try to validate the charge, increasing the value to close to R$1 billion. The entity used in the process would be controlled by Wagner Rossi Silva and, according to investigators, functioned as a space without real structure.
According to Fantástico, former civil police officer Rubens Maurício Bolorino had acted as a witness for give the appearance of legality to the scheme. He had previously been arrested in Federal Police investigations.
The suspects are being investigated for crimes such as fraud, ideological falsehood, criminal organization and attempt to mislead Justice.
The arbitration chamber acts as a form of private justice: instead of resorting to the Judiciary, which is generally slower, the parties choose an arbitrator to decide the conflict. The decision, called an arbitration award, has the same weight as a court order.
In the investigated scheme, Fonamsp (International and National Business and Finance Forum for Arbitration and Mediation) was used. THE responsible for the entity is Wagner Rossi Silvawho, according to the Fantástico report, has a record of drug trafficking, embezzlement and crimes against property.
According to the investigations, the Colonizadora had hired Fonamsp to facilitate the legal maneuver. “It was all an act. These criminals identified loopholes in the regulation to try to obtain an economic advantage”, said prosecutor Carlos Bruno Gaya da Costa to Fantástico.
The report from Young Pan attempts to locate the defenses of Luiz Teixeira da Silva Júnior, Jorge Alberto Rodrigues de Oliveira, Wagner Rossi Silva and Rubens Maurício Bolorino, which, at the time of publication, have not been located. The space remains open for demonstrations.
O Public Ministry of São Paulo (MP-SP) also names others involved in the case. Among them are Anani Cândido de Lara, suspected of participating in the drafting of documents and contracts; Patricia Alejandra Ormart Barreto, who allegedly simulated notifications without the estate’s knowledge; and Camila Mariana Alejandra Piaggio Nogueira Ormat, appointed as responsible for assisting in the formalization of contracts.
Also mentioned are Carlos Xavier Lopes, linked to the financial core and suspected of hiding the origin of the values, and Aline Cordeiro de Oliveira Boaventura, who allegedly acted as an “arbitration judge” in a decision considered simulated.
In a note sent to Fantástico, the National Council of Justice (CNJ) informed that arbitration chambers are private entitieswithout accreditation or prior supervision by the Judiciary, but highlighted that its acts can be subsequently reviewed by the Courts.
Understand the case
The Public Ministry of São Paulo, through the Special Action Group to Combat Organized Crime (GAECO), launched a against the founder of the Unip Objective group, João Carlos Di Gênio.
According to investigations, the group used fraudulent contracts to support judicial and extrajudicial charges undue payments against the inventory. The strategy, according to the prosecution, consisted of simulating million-dollar debts and misleading both the victims and the Judiciary itself, with the aim of enabling illegitimate payments.
The operation carried out nine preventive arrest warrants and 15 search and seizure warrants. According to the Public Ministry, the suspects operated through two business fronts. One of them involved Colonizadora Planalto Paulista Ltda, while the other used the company Fonamsp, presented as a mediation and arbitration entity, responsible for giving the appearance of legality to the charges.
Still according to the investigation, the false contracts were later used to support simulated arbitration procedures, creating a formal structure that would support the supposed debts. The intention was to pressure the estate into making million-dollar payments based on fraudulent documents.
