The fact that the vice-mayor of , the colonel, had not communicated to the mayor () caused embarrassment between the two.
On Monday morning (9), Araújo told the police that his cell phone was stolen and he was the target of a campaign to slander him due to his work investigating possible illegalities at city hall, with the dismissal of employees.
Nunes said he only became aware of the events when reading the Panel, on Monday night. On the same day, the mayor tried to speak to his deputy about the issue, but Araújo did not answer the call. This Friday afternoon (13), both did not mention the subject.
The mayor’s interlocutors suggested to Araújo that he should have communicated to the mayor, under the argument that any suspicion against someone in the government should also be investigated internally. The way Araújo described the case in the bulletins would be placing the entire city hall under suspicion.
Araújo told the Panel that “the truth will come out, God willing.”
In the police report, the deputy wrote that he learned that people — without mentioning how many and which ones — were hired to tap his cell phone and open a checking account in his name in Uruguay. Such an account, he said, would receive deposits from a bus company.
“With the purpose of demoralizing my image, due to my attitudes towards purges and exonerations that we are carrying out at São Paulo City Hall”, reported Araújo, in the bulletin.
“The idea would be to publicize it to the press, giving the image of corruption, demoralizing the image of this vice-mayor”, he continued.
Nunes also points out, publicly, that Araújo had his cell phone stolen on the 1st, during , but only registered the report on the 9th.
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