The MPSP (Public Ministry of São Paulo) denounced, this Wednesday (3), the vice-president of Corinthians Armando Mendonça on suspicion of embezzlement of the club’s sporting materials.
A CNN Brazil had access to the complaint presented by prosecutor Cássio Roberto Conserino, which alleges the existence of aggravated and continued misappropriation, theft qualified by abuse of trust and coercion during the course of the process.
According to the prosecutor, the investigation process had access to information that proves the crimes.
“Interviews were carried out with storekeepers from the Parque São Jorge warehouse and the Training Center. Concrete data on the appropriations of sports materials were externalized. Notes on requests, approvals, releases, irregularities in the flow of movement of materials were also subject to analysis”, says an excerpt from the document.
The investigative process began with Corinthians’ technology director, who observed irregularities in the control of materials from Nike, the team’s sports sponsor. A.
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Understand the case
According to findings from Marco Bello, a guest on the then program Domingol da CNN Brazilin 2025, around nine thousand Nike pieces — valued at approximately R$5 million — disappeared from the Corinthians warehouse.
Also according to the journalist, the club’s security guards do not know the fate of the images from the security cameras installed in the Parque São Jorge warehouse.
“The uniforms were not supposed to be in the CT. They were supposed to be in the warehouse at Parque São Jorge, and the cameras didn’t find out where they were going. Osmar Stable took over as president and he asked Corinthians’ technology director to carry out an audit regarding the shirts. The technology director appointed a club employee to check incoming invoices and outgoing invoices. It took him two months to produce this report”, he explained.
“I spoke to him and he said that the report did not accuse anyone, it was a report that was based on an invoice, saying where each shirt was going — and that is the question that everyone wants to find out”, added the journalist during the program.
Other side
At the time of the internal audit, by means of a note, check it in full;
The information that I am responsible for the distribution guidelines for Nike materials at Corinthians and the administration of the warehouses is false. Due to the chaos found in June of this year, when the Augusto Melo management did not carry out the necessary control and, in January 2025, the annual quota had already been exceeded by far, I decided to personally help with the chain of approvals system for material removal, precisely to provide greater transparency and control over the allocation of the club’s assets and avoid losses and misdeeds.
Since then, I have constantly requested improvements to the system for the Nike material withdrawal control flow. It should be noted that it is not and has never been my responsibility to define internal distribution policy by department, which is normally done every year.
My role is to analyze extra requests and authorize them according to needs, together with the administrative department.I deeply regret information disconnected from the truth and devoid of any evidentiary material.
Furthermore, I will always welcome improvements, greater control and the correct investigation of irregularities.
Contacted by the report about the MP’s complaint, the club has not yet responded. The space remains open.
*With information from Iúri Medeiros (Itatiaia) and Ana Karolina Reis
