The STF (Supreme Federal Court) ordered the preventive detention of businessman Marcelo Conde, who was the target of an operation launched this Wednesday morning (1st) as part of an investigation investigating possible cases involving court ministers and their relatives.
The businessman, however, is on the run, according to the STF.
According to Sheet As it turned out, he was identified as being responsible for illegally ordering confidential data from the minister’s relatives, from the STF, including lawyer Viviane Barci, the judge’s wife.
Earlier, Conde told the reporter, by telephone, that his defense would issue a position on the case. Lawyer Nelio Machado, who represents him, stated that he has not yet had access to the decision that determined the operation.
“We immediately formulated a request to access it and are now awaiting acceptance of the request to take action.”
In this Wednesday’s action, the PF took to the streets to execute six search and seizure warrants, issued by the STF, in addition to the preventive arrest warrant, in the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. All addresses are linked to Conde, according to the Supreme Court.
“Several and multiple illicit accesses to the system of the Federal Revenue Service of Brazil were found, followed by a subsequent leak of confidential information”, says a note from the STF. As the PGR pointed out, data from 1,819 taxpayers were accessed, including people linked to ministers of the STF, TCU, federal deputies, former senators, former governor, heads of regulatory agencies, businesspeople, among others, according to the court.
Conde is president of STX Desenvolvimento Imobiliário and the Rio Vamos Vencer association. He is the son of former Rio de Janeiro mayor Luiz Paulo Conde, who died in 2015.
According to the STF, the PF investigation found the actions of public servants with functional access to data, security guards, dispatchers and intermediaries.
According to the Supreme Court, Conde had provided a list of CPFs and paid, in cash, R$4,500 to “receive the tax declarations obtained illegally”.
The STF states that, according to the file of the petition, in secrecy, the data would have been extracted from the systems of the Federal Revenue Secretariat and Coaf (Financial Activities Control Council).
“The investigation revealed a ‘structured intermediation chain’, which included the participation of: public servants with functional access, outsourced employees (vigilants), dispatchers and intermediaries”, says the STF. The removal of the telematic secrecy of the seized devices was also authorized.
The action is an offshoot of the Washington arrest, revealed by Sheet on the 21st. Until then, the arrest was kept secret. He is detained on suspicion of participating in the murder of Moraes’ relatives.
One of the illegally obtained papers was tax data from lawyer Viviane Barci. She is one of the centers of the crisis at the STF after the release of information about her contract with , currently in prison and negotiating a plea bargain.
Washington claimed to have been an intermediary between a person interested in the company’s confidential data and another who claimed to know how to obtain it.
The arrest order was given by Moraes himself as part of the investigation investigating irregular access to tax data of magistrates and their relatives.
On February 17, the PF complied with São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Bahia.
The action occurred as determined by Moraes based on a representation made by the (Attorney General’s Office).
At the time, the targets of the operation worked at the IRS: Luiz Antônio Martins Nunes (a server at Serpro, a state-owned data processing company, which was assigned to the Tax Authority), Luciano Pery Santos Nascimento, Ruth Machado dos Santos and Ricardo Mansano de Moraes.
The note states that initial investigations demonstrate the existence of “a block of accesses whose analysis, by the responsible areas, did not identify a functional justification”.
