Investigation cites civil servants, social assistance beneficiaries and cash in financial movement scheme
The Federal Police states that a network of companies linked to the senator (PP) used family members, public servants, beneficiaries of social programs and cash transactions to hide funds of illicit origin. Part of these amounts, according to investigators, would have come from the businessman, former controller of , who would also have paid an “allowance” to the senator. Read the PF document that links Ciro to Vorcaro (PDF – 14.1 MB).
The conclusions come from analyzes of (Financial Intelligence Reports) from the (Financial Activities Control Council), which identify financial movements considered suspicious involving companies linked to the Nogueira and Vorcaro families, operating in Piauí and Maranhão.
According to the PF, there would be a “integrated circuit” between companies from the two groups, especially CNLF, linked to the senator, and BRGD, controlled by Vorcaro and family members. This flow would have been used, according to the investigation, for transfers that would include an allowance of at least R$6 million to Ciro Nogueira between 2024 and 2025.
The investigation states that these structures operated with “recurrent and interconnected structures, used, in theory, for the concealment, dissimulation and reinsertion of resources of origin incompatible with the formal economic-financial capacity of those involved, with senator Ciro Nogueira as a possible final beneficiary”.
The report also states that “such structures do not present themselves in isolation, but operate in an articulated way, through family businesses, intra-group circulation, intensive use of cash [dinheiro] in kind and interposition of third parties, including public agents”.
Circuit between companies
According to the PF, the amounts would reach the senator’s group through BRGD, managed by , and a fintech called PJBank. Between 2020 and 2025, the company would have transferred around R$3 million to the group, even without authorization from the Central Bank for this type of operation.
From this flow, Nogueira family companies would enter, such as CNLF and CN Motos, which, according to investigators, would receive the resources, mix them with legal values and redistribute the money within the economic group itself.
The PF also cites Coaf reports that add up to more than R$13 million in movements considered suspicious involving the network under investigation. “In summary”, says the report, there would be a “integrated circuit” between contributions from BRGD, transfers via PJBank and the use of cash, later internalized in the family group’s companies.
Suspicious deposits and movements
One of the points highlighted is the case of CN Motos, in which an employee identified as Bernardo allegedly made R$3.5 million in cash deposits. According to the PF, the deposits were made in periods close to transfers from the company to the senator’s account.
The investigation also indicates that the company received around R$1.2 million from public servants in Piauí, Maranhão and from Union structures. In some cases, those investigated had low income or a history of receiving social benefits.
One of the examples cited is that of a person who received R$2,000 per month and would have transferred R$90,000 to the company in one year. Another person investigated would have received emergency aid during the pandemic and sent R$143,000 in the same period.
In the opposite direction, CN Motos would also have transferred R$412,000 to a small company in Teresina, with a share capital of R$20,000 and a link with an employee of the Legislative Assembly of Piauí.
There are also records of transactions involving politicians, such as the federal deputy (Republicanos-PI), who allegedly paid R$357,000 to the company. He stated that the value refers to the purchase of part of an airplane.
Folha sought out Senator Ciro Nogueira and Daniel Vorcaro’s defense, but received no response until publication. The report also attempted to contact the aforementioned financial institution, without any response.
To the Poder360the defense of senator Ciro Nogueira said that he will not comment on the case at this time, but stated that he will “all technical clarifications” in the case to refute what he classified as “unreasonable police insinuations”.
