The businessman Sidney Oliveira was temporarily arrested this week after the outbreak of Operation Icarus, from the São Paulo Public Prosecutor (MP-SP)
The governor of, (Republicans), spoke for the first time about the corruption case surrounding the businessman, owner of, and the State Finance Secretariat, on Friday (15). According to Tarcisio, those involved will be punished “strictly.”
In conversation with journalists after an event in (SP), Tarcisio said that, when assuming the government, he found a “still very analog” and “lacking digitization” state. About those involved in the scheme, Tarcisio said there was no central HR organ or a controllership general, and that his management is promoting changes with technology investments.
“This specific fraud began in 2021, but there have been cases since 2015. Now, it is to redesign processes, invest in technology, rigorously punish those involved – in the administrative, civil and criminal sphere – and go after the assets of those who damaged the state,” said the governor. “They will feel the heavy hand of the state … tramp has to be treated rigorously, and that’s what will happen.”
The businessman Sidney Oliveira was temporarily arrested on August 12 after the outbreak of the São Paulo Public Prosecutor (MP-SP). The lawsuit investigates a corruption scheme involving tax auditors of the São Paulo State Treasury Secretariat (Sefaz-SP), which would have received more than $ 1 billion in bribes to favor companies in the retail sector.
In addition to Sidney, the executive was the executive Mário Otávio Gomes, statutory director of Fast Shop, a network specializing in appliances and electronics, and the tax auditor Artur Gomes da Silva Neto, from Sefaz-SP. Secretary Samuel Kinoshita was restricted to quoting a phrase from former US-Corted Supreme Minister between 1916 and 1939, Louis Brandeis, in the X ever since. “Transparency is correctly praised as a medicine for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light, the most efficient policeman,” he wrote.
*With information from Estadão Content
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