Tax inspector warns: Bolsonaro is dismantling the system to combat corruption.
In a confidential memo, José Neto warns the Secretary of the Federal Revenue Service, Marcos Cintra (pictured), about a change in the department's structure that would "completely undermine" the fight against fraud; "It is absurd to halve the operational capacity of the unit responsible for combating corruption within such an important and sensitive body as the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service, in a context where the main directive of the incoming government is the intensification and strengthening of the fight against corruption," he says.
247 - In a confidential memo sent this Thursday, the 17th, to the Special Secretary of the Federal Revenue Service, Marcos Cintra, the agency's inspector general, José Pereira de Barros Neto, assesses that President Jair Bolsonaro is dismantling the system for combating corruption within the federal government with a decree signed at the beginning of the year. The document, brought to light by journalist Bela Megale, from Globo, refers to the administrative reorganization of the Revenue Inspectorate, carried out through decree 9.679, published in the Official Gazette on January 2nd.
The inspector general warns that the changes ordered by Bolsonaro have led the agency to suffer "serious losses" in its structure responsible for investigating and removing from public service civil servants involved in corruption cases in the Brazilian tax system.
"It is absurd to halve the operational capacity of the unit responsible for combating corruption within such an important and sensitive body as the Brazilian Federal Revenue Service, especially when the main directive of the incoming government is to intensify and strengthen the fight against corruption," says Neto.