Members of the family of owners of the company, a company in the center of , financed the former president’s campaign () in 2022 with donations totaling R$ 1.5 million for the second round of the .
The case involving products from Química Amparo, responsible for Ypê, went from a health alert from the (National Health Surveillance Agency) to a political debate.
On the 7th, detergents, liquid soaps and disinfectants from batches ending in 1 after technical health risk assessment. Bolsonaristas, however, began to state that the company was being persecuted for having contributed to the election of the former president.
Among the owners, Eduardo Beira was the largest donor and allocated R$750,000. Antônio Ricardo, Ana Maria and Waldir Beira donated R$250,000 each. In total, Ypê representatives financed the equivalent of half of Bolsonaro’s largest donation that year, made by businessman and former pastor Fabiano Zettel, involved in the .
Zettel is named by the PF () as responsible for making illicit payments and creating false contracts for , the owner of the bank and the businessman’s brother-in-law.
Since 2015, corporate financing for candidates has been prohibited in Brazil, but businesspeople and executives still influence elections through donations as individuals.
According to what was declared, 70% of the donations came from almost 4 thousand individual donors, the equivalent of almost R$90 million.
Meanwhile, the president (PT), then candidate, led the transfers from the Electoral Fund — a reserve of public money used to finance political campaigns. He had only 7% of campaign spending from private resources, a total of R$9.7 million, distributed among 142 donors.
Most of it came from businessman Altair Vilar, founder of Grupo Cartão de Todos, a network of discounts on e-commerce services. Still in the first round, he donated R$600,000 to the PT campaign.
Altair was a councilor and vice-mayor for the PT (Workers’ Party) in . Despite investing in Lula’s campaign, he left the party after being sued for party infidelity after switching to the PSB (Brazilian Socialist Party), according to the.
See the individuals who donated the most to Bolsonaro and Lula in the 2022 elections.
