Document filed by Jorge Seif (PL-SC) states that a hearing from Martha Gonçalves Graef is necessary to ‘elucidate facts already reported and documented’
Senator Jorge Seif (PL-SC) presented, on Monday (9), a request asking for call by businesswoman Martha Gonçalves Graeff to give testimony to the INSS Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI). Martha is girlfriend of businessman Daniel Vorcarowhich is not center of investigationsand should be heard in witness status.
According to the registered document, the call seeks clarify revealed information for messages seized during Operation Compliance Zero. The dialogues show that Vorcaro frequently reported to the businesswoman the behind the scenes of meetings, dinners and reserved meetings which he maintained with high public authorities.
Among the episodes mentioned in the request, there are messages about meetings at the Palácio do Planalto with the President Lula (PT) e ministers of statein addition to encounters with the president of Chamber of Deputies, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB), with the senator Ciro Nogueira (PP-PI) by com ministers of higher courts. The senator understands that the material indicates that Martha had direct knowledge about the agenda and political contacts of the person being investigated.
The document also highlights conversations between the couple about movement of goods of high economic value. The messages address the purchase of a house in Miami (USA), the existence of a luxury boat baptized with the name “Martha” and spending millions on a engagement party in Romein Italy.
Defense alleges private issues
In the request itself, the senator mentions that the defense of Martha Graeff had already expressed in the press stating that the businesswoman has no involvement in business by Daniel Vorcaro and that the messages only concern the couple’s private life.
Despite this, the parliamentarian justifies that the hearing is “proportional, adequate and necessary”. According to Jorge Seif, as a witness and under the “commitment to tell the truth”, Vorcaro’s girlfriend could help to delimit “what concerned the strictly personal sphere and what
which eventually impacts the object of this investigation.”
