Mello Franco: it's Augusto Nardes' turn now
Journalist Bernardo Mello Franco highlighted this Sunday, the 10th, that the net is closing in on the Minister of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU), Augusto Nardes, rapporteur of the fiscal maneuvers that underpinned the coup against President Dilma Rousseff; "Until now, the minister has been safe from coercive measures or temporary arrests. The searches at his home are a novelty because they indicate that this protection may have begun to crumble," says Mello Franco.
247 - Journalist Bernardo Mello Franco highlighted this Sunday, the 10th, that the net is closing in on the Minister of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU), Augusto Nardes, rapporteur of the fiscal maneuvers that underpinned the coup against President Dilma Rousseff.
The columnist for Globo commented on the Federal Police operation against Nardes, accused of receiving bribes from Fernando Cavendish, the contractor who financed the lavish parties of former Rio governor Sérgio Cabral.
"Until now, the minister has been safe from coercive measures or temporary arrests. The searches at his home are a new development because they indicate that this protection may have begun to crumble," says Mello Franco.
"Former PP congressman Nardes was nominated to the TCU (Federal Court of Accounts) by Severino Cavalcanti, the same person who demanded that Petrobras's board of directors 'drill wells and find oil.' Before becoming a minister, he made a deal to escape charges of electoral crime and embezzlement. When he was pontificating against corruption, his record was already well known in Brasília," says the journalist.