The technical area of the (Federal Audit Court) recommended archiving the request for investigation into retirees from the (Supreme Federal Court) and the bank.
In the opinion, concluded on the 6th, and obtained by Sheetthe court’s auditors considered that there is not sufficient evidence for the occurrence of an alleged irregularity or illegality in the attribution of the TCU. The representation had been made to the court by opposition parliamentarians.
One of the points alleged by the technicians was that the legal nature of the resources that would have been transferred by the bank to the office would be private. Therefore, there would be nothing to talk about possible damage to the treasury – when there is financial loss to the public sector.
The audit also assessed that the only aspect with potential relevance to external control would be the existence of a possible conflict of interests. However, they said that the situation must be investigated by the (Comptroller General of the Union) and the Public Ethics Commission of the Presidency.
“The mere existence of a situation that potentially qualifies as a conflict of interest does not, in itself, give rise to action by the TCU, and there is no automatic extension of the jurisdiction of this court”, said the auditors.
The auditors added that, for the court to act, it would be necessary for the situation described to go beyond the ethical-disciplinary plan and project itself into the field of external control, which is when the case affects the server’s management acts.
“In the case under examination, although the conduct narrated is, in theory, ascertainable, no elements were presented that demonstrate the existence of a specific management act influenced by the alleged private relationship, nor the occurrence of concrete effects on public administration that attract the jurisdiction of this Court”, states the opinion.
They also pointed out that the legislation establishes that the configuration of the conflict of interests does not depend on the existence of damage to public property, but also acts to prevent and repress risks to the integrity of the public service.
The auditors’ position still needs to be approved by the case’s rapporteur, Minister Augusto Nardes, and then by the other members of the court.
as to Sheet showed, which began in November 2023.
The contract between Master and the office for legal consultancy services lasted from 2023 to August 2025, when he was Minister of Justice in the Lula government. He remained in the portfolio, to which he is subordinate, between February 1, 2024 and January 9 of this year.
The former minister left office on January 17, 2024, shortly before taking office in the government. Since then, the bank has been run by his wife, Yara de Abreu Lewandowski, and the couple’s son Enrique Lewandowski.
In a statement, the former minister’s office said that, as widely reported, after leaving the STF, in April 2023, he returned to his legal activities and that, in addition to several other clients, he provided legal consultancy services to Banco Master.
“Upon being invited by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to take over the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, in January 2024, Lewandowski withdrew from his law firm and suspended his registration with the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), as determined by current legislation,” he said.
The defense has argued that the hiring of consultants “occurred within professional, regular and technical parameters”.
on November 17 last year, as part of Operation Compliance Zero, which investigates fraud committed by the bank in issuing false credit instruments. He was released on the 28th of the same month, and began to be monitored using an electronic ankle monitor.
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