Funaro says Yunes was 'sure' he passed the money on to him.
Contrary to the version given by Temer's friend, who claimed not to know that the package delivered by Lúcio Funaro at José Padilha's request to his office in São Paulo contained R$ 1 million in bribes, the PMDB operative stated in his testimony that the lawyer and former presidential advisor José Yunes "was certain" that the box delivered to him in September 2014, on the eve of the election, contained money; this statement was made in testimony to the Attorney General's Office on August 23.
247 - PMDB bribe operator Lúcio Funaro stated in testimony to the Attorney General's Office that lawyer José Yunes, a friend and former advisor to Michel Temer during his presidency, "was certain" that the money delivered to him in September 2014, on the eve of the election, remained in the box.
Yunes' version of events is that he received a package from Funaro at his office in São Paulo at the request of the current Chief of Staff, Eliseu Padilha, but that he did not know it contained R$ 1 million in bribe money, sent by Odebrecht for the PMDB politician's campaign.
"He [Yunes] was sure it was money, he knew it was money, so much so that he asked if my car was in the garage, because he didn't want me to risk taking the box out into the street. And even because of the weight of the box itself, for a volume of R$ 1 million, it's a very heavy box," Funaro said.
The testimony was given by Funaro on August 23rd. The plea bargain agreement was approved by Minister Edson Fachin of the Supreme Federal Court. Watch here to the video of the testimony, obtained by Folha de S.Paulo.