The reserve military police officer, former advisor to the senator (PL-RJ), received R$6,300 from an aesthetics company used, according to the Public Ministry of Rio de Janeiro, in the money laundering scheme of the former PM, a militia member killed in 2020.
The transfer took place in 2017, when Queiroz worked at Alerj (Legislative Assembly of) as chief of staff for Flávio, now a pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic.
Information about payment is contained in a Coaf report used in Operation Legado, this year by MP-RJ. The investigation led to the denunciation of a network of people involved, according to the MP-RJ, in the money laundering of Adriano, a former PM linked to different criminal activities.
Among those accused in this case is Adriano’s mother and also Flávio’s former advisor at Alerj.
Queiroz was not charged in the case. However, this payment is the first financial transaction identified between him and a link in the criminal structure attributed to Adriano beyond the “rachadinhas” case.
The retired PM declined to comment on the case. “I am not being investigated for any of these false accusations. I ask that you leave me alone to take charge of my life and take care of my family.”
In a statement, Flávio Bolsonaro said that he “has no relationship with the facts mentioned and that he never had knowledge of or participated in illicit activities attributed to Fabrício Queiroz or Adriano da Nóbrega”.
“The attempt at association and resumption of the agenda, already surpassed in the Judiciary, is strange, especially given the PT’s announced strategy to promote the wear and tear of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. The timeline of the facts, already recognized in investigations, shows that appointments and dismissals of people linked to Adriano occurred before any public accusation against him, ruling out the hypothesis of prior knowledge”, said the senator, in a note.
Currently, Queiroz was appointed by the MP-RJ as the operator of Flávio Bolsonaro’s former office in Alerj.
According to the complaint, filed in 2020, the senator embezzled R$6 million from public coffers and collected part of the salaries of ghost employees he kept in his office. The PM, according to the accusation, was responsible for managing the transfer of money to Flávio.
The case was closed after the court nullified the evidence. The two have always denied the accusations.
Among the alleged ghost employees reported were Adriano’s ex-wife. According to the MP-RJ, they would have transferred just over R$200,000 to the “rachadinha” scheme — there are, however, suspicions that the amount could be higher, due to Adriano’s mother having withdrawn 98% of his salary, money whose destination is unknown.
They were appointed on the recommendation of Queiroz, who was from the time they were active in the PM, in the early 2000s. The militia member also has one with the Bolsonaro since 2003, when he received one.
Queiroz was appointed to Flávio’s cabinet in March 2007. According to investigations by the MP-RJ, Adriano began to work, from 2008 onwards, as a hired assassin, head of the militia, controller of Jogo do Bicho in the south zone, in addition to other illegal activities.
In reporting the “rachadinha” case, offered in 2020, the MP-RJ pointed out that Queiroz had also received R$69,000 from two pizzerias in the name of Adriano (R$42,000) and Raimunda (R$27,000). The Prosecutor’s Office, at the time, raised suspicions that the transfers could be part of the scheme attributed to Flávio Bolsonaro.
The Operation Legado investigation, however, points out that Raimunda’s pizzeria was also used as a way of laundering money from Adriano’s illegal activities. For this reason, the militiaman’s mother was denounced.
The Operation Legado process does not make reference to transfers from pizzerias to Queiroz. The name of Flávio’s former chief of staff appears in a Coaf document on the financial transactions of another company, SC da Silva Estética Pessoal. It is the official name of an eyebrow design kiosk that operated in a shopping mall in the north of Rio de Janeiro.
Coaf indicated a transfer of R$6,300 to Queiroz in July 2017. According to Sheet found, this is the only transfer from the beauty company to the PM identified in the breach of confidentiality made in the investigation of the “rachadinha” case, which covered a period of 12 years (2007-2018).
According to the MP-RJ, the company belongs to Shirlei Costa da Silva, sister of Márcio Carneiro Ferreira da Silva, appointed by the Prosecutor’s Office as responsible for operating shell companies used to launder money from Adriano’s illicit activities.
According to Coaf reports, the beauty company had credits of more than R$2 million in its accounts between April 2017 and December 2018, and a similar amount in debts, the majority through cash withdrawals. The MP-RJ saw “incompatibility between the volume of resources and the size of the business” and also raises suspicions about the volume of withdrawals, as well as in the case of “rachadinhas”.
The beauty company also transferred R$38,400 to the pizzeria in Raimunda’s name. This was one of the bases of the complaint against Adriano’s mother.
Queiroz’s conduct was not the subject of analysis in Operation Legado. However, the name of Flávio’s former advisor appeared in the intelligence information that opened the investigation.
The document, of apocryphal origin, states that Queiroz worked in Adriano’s militia and laundered money at a car dealership in Barra da Tijuca. The process data does not show any confirmation of this information after investigations.
‘Leave me alone’, says Fabrício Queiroz
Fabrício Queiroz declined to comment on the transfer made by the aesthetics company under suspicion.
“As stated in the article itself, I am not being investigated for any of these false accusations. I ask that you leave me alone to take charge of my life and take care of my family.”
Senator Flávio Bolsonaro declared that he “has no relationship with the facts mentioned and that he never had knowledge of or participated in illicit activities attributed to Fabrício Queiroz or Adriano da Nóbrega”.
“The attempt at association and resumption of the agenda, already surpassed in the judiciary, is strange, especially given the PT’s announced strategy to promote the wear and tear of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. The timeline of the facts, already recognized in investigations, shows that appointments and dismissals of people linked to Adriano occurred before any public accusation against him, ruling out the hypothesis of prior knowledge,” he stated.
“The senator reinforces that possible conduct by third parties occurred without his knowledge and remembers that previous accusations were rejected or annulled by the courts.”
Lawyer Manoela Santos, who represented Raimunda, said she would not speak.
Shirlei was contacted through her social networks, but did not respond. The report also contacted the phone number of his beauty company, but did not receive a response.
A Sheet did not locate Márcio. He has been considered missing since 2023 and has no defense in the Operation Legacy process.
