The leader of the Lula (PT) government in the Senate, Jaques Wagner (PT-BA), is target of Federal Police investigation (PF) by alleged receipt of undue advantages from Augusto Limaformer partner of the owner of Banco Master, Daniel Vorcaro. According to the corporation, the senator used private jets for free e received tickets to an international concert in Los Angelesevaluated in R$ 63,3 milfor their family members. The information is contained in the Operation Compliance Zero decision.
According to investigations, the relationship between Jaques and Augusto Lima would involve defending Banco Master’s interests in Congress. The PF report cites messages exchanged in 2023, in which Augusto would have made aircraft available to Wagner e of your family for travel to the “Passion Island”a place that the corporation points out would be owned by Augusto Lima, and for the Rio de Janeiro. In one of the dialogues in April 2024, the businessman sent the senator the contact a pilot.
The PF also identified the payment for tickets for a concert in the United States through the company Reag Investimentos. Upon receiving the entries, the senator would have requested the expanding the number of accesses to five people.
“The Federal Police maintains that, in the course of the investigations, elements were identified that indicated the parliamentarian had received undue economic advantages, directly or indirectly, through family members, trusted people and corporate structures linked to the economic group being investigated”, says the document.
Acquisition of luxury apartment
In addition to travel and tickets, the research shows unit 1702 of the Poème Horto development, valued at R$2.45 million. The PF maintains that the property would have been acquired through corporate structures interposed to conceal Wagner as the real beneficiary.
Another point of the investigation is the transfer of R$3.5 million to the company BN Financeira Ltda.linked to the senator’s family nucleus. For the researchers, the company, registered as a micro-enterprise and with low share capital, would have been used to provide appearance of legality to undue transfers originating from the economic group investigated. In return, Wagner would have worked on topics of interest to the bank, such as payroll credit matters and in amendments to Provisional Measure No. 1,106/2022.
MP nº 1,106/2022, cited in the investigation, expanded the credit margin for INSS retirees and pensioners. The text also authorized that beneficiaries of the Continuous Payment Benefit (BPC) and federal income transfer programs could take out loans and financing with a direct discount on benefitswhich would benefit financial institutions in the sector.
