A supporter of the coup, Pastor Everaldo also asked Cunha for money.
In one of the messages on Eduardo Cunha's cell phone, Pastor Everaldo, who ran for president of the Republic for the PSC party, asks the congressman for money and says he is "desperate"; in another, Geddel Vieira Lima says he has solved the politician's problem; the messages indicate that Cunha and Geddel were raising funds to maintain influence over parliament, financing deputies, and thus may have bought support for the impeachment; review the video in which Pastor Everaldo declares support for the 2016 parliamentary coup.
247 - Operation Cui Bono, launched yesterday by the Federal Police, may help to uncover how the 2016 parliamentary coup was financed.
In one of the messages on Eduardo Cunha's cell phone, the national president of the PSC party, Pastor Everaldo, asks him for money, saying he is "desperate."
In another instance, Geddel Vieira Lima claims to Cunha that he resolved the problem of Everaldo, who ran for president of the Republic in 2014.
The payments were allegedly made through a company called Dinâmica Segurança Patrimonial, in which Everaldo was reportedly a partner.
The messages indicate that Cunha and Geddel set up a bribery scheme at Caixa Econômica Federal, in which the release of loans was conditional on the payment of financial advantages.
They also indicate that the two raised funds to maintain influence over parliament, financing deputies. It was through economic power that Cunha became president of the Chamber of Deputies and, in the same way, may have influenced the votes of the deputies who supported the coup.
Read more about the donations made by Cunha and Geddel to the PSC, in Reporting by Leandro Prazeres, Flávio Costa and Mirthyani Bezerra.
Also check out the video in which Everaldo declares his support for the 2016 parliamentary coup, whose votes may have been financed by funds raised by Cunha and Geddel: