Alvarez & Marsal, which received R$ 40 million from companies involved in the Lava Jato corruption scandal, opened a company registration number (CNPJ) in a tax haven.
The company that paid R$ 3,5 million to Sergio Moro in one year opened 12 branches at the height of the operation in 2017.
247 - The intelligence sector of the Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) is working on the corporate structure of Alvarez & Marsal, a company that hired the former judge Sergio Moro, who is under suspicion of corruption, for consulting work after he led Operation Lava Jato. This information comes from journalist Daniela Lima of CNN, who had access to part of the report.
The first part of the document states that A&M's first CNPJ (Brazilian tax ID) in Brazil was established in a tax haven, Delaware, in the United States, in 2008.
>>> Alvarez & Marsal, which hired Moro, received R$ 40 million from companies targeted by Lava Jato.
From the start of Operation Lava Jato, the group opened 12 branches – one of them being the Disputes and Investigations sector, which hired Moro to provide consulting services. The peak of the creation of new branches by the company was in 2017, when Lava Jato was in full swing.
The TCU's intelligence technicians are now cross-referencing data not only from Sergio Moro, but also from people with whom the former judge has corporate ties, and the amounts received from Alvarez & Marsal.
>>> Moro earned R$ 3,5 million in one year from the company that profited from Brazil's collapse.
The technicians were struck by the opening of a CNPJ (Brazilian company registration number) in a tax haven and the fact that another branch was opened in the Cayman Islands – a tax haven in the Caribbean region. The intention is to identify if there was tax fraud.
Sergio Moro received R$ 3,5 million in one year from the company. The contract stipulated a payment of US$ 656 to the former judge over the twelve months of services rendered, between November 23, 2020, and November 26, 2021. Parliamentarians are questioning whether Moro actually provided the consulting services or if he merely received the money.
The Federal Court of Accounts delegates to the Attorney General's Office the immediate freezing of Moro's assets.
Minister Bruno Dantas of the TCU (Federal Court of Accounts) believes that it is not yet possible to order the freezing of Sergio Moro's assets. However, the intelligence sector's investigation is working to gather evidence that would allow for such a decision. The Attorney General of the Republic, Augusto Aras, selected a group of prosecutors. to analyze, during Carnival, the TCU's (Federal Court of Accounts) proceedings against the former judge.
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