TJ-SP identifies yet another advance payment.

Fernando Porfírio _247 - The São Paulo Court of Justice has identified another case of advance payment. This time, the beneficiary is a court employee. Ivete Sartorio was the secretary to the president during the administrations of Viana Santos and José Roberto Bedran. According to the document, the employee received R$ 229.461,49 over 14 months. The extra amounts, disbursed between August 2009 and October 2010, were received as advance payments.

With 32 years of service, Ivete Sartorio holds the position of judicial technical clerk. She receives a gross salary of R$ 17.297,55. For two years, during the administrations of Vallim Bellocchi (2008-2009) and Vianna Santos (2010), the employee benefited from advance payments. The amounts, the Court of Justice argues, are due because they are of an alimentary and labor-related nature.

The payment made to the employee is documented in the file "advance payments to an employee related to then-President Vianna Santos." The document details all the procedures that led the São Paulo court and its leaders to grant the benefit to the former secretary of the presidency. Most of the money was released without the employee justifying the reason for the concession.

In 2008, while still serving as secretary to the then-president of the Public Law Section, Ivete Sartorio filed a request for payment of unused vacation time from the years 1986, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005, "plus the days of paid leave, with exemption from income tax." This request was denied due to "budgetary constraints." In her requests, she cited "financial reasons."

The spreadsheet shows that Ivete subsequently received 13 successive payments, of which five were related to unused vacation time; four were for accrued leave; and four were related to the so-called Monetary Update Factor (FAM).

In October 2010, the employee was authorized to receive an additional R$ 40.937,54 for 71 days of paid leave. The amount was paid as a remaining balance of accumulated credits.

The issue of credits granted to employees is one chapter in the crisis facing the São Paulo court. The matter has not yet been analyzed by the Special Body. The advance payments are under inspection by order of the President of the Court of Justice, Judge Ivan Sartori.

There are three procedures investigating the authorization of payments: the first deals with the million-dollar paychecks to five judges; the second analyzes the early release of funds to 41 magistrates; the third deals with resources for civil servants. The inspection seeks to identify how and under what criteria the advances were made.