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Petrobras-BTG relationship could end in a Parliamentary Inquiry Commission.

Members of Congress aligned with the government will begin collecting signatures this Wednesday for a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) to investigate the relationship between Petrobras and the BTG bank, owned by André Esteves. The congressmen intend to focus their investigations on the negotiation for the sale of the Pasadena refinery in the United States and the entire divestment process of the state-owned company, including the sale of assets abroad.  

Petrobras-BTG relationship could end in a Parliamentary Inquiry (Photo: Jin Lee)

247 - Members of Congress aligned with the government will begin collecting signatures this Wednesday for a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) to investigate the relationship between Petrobras and the BTG bank, owned by André Esteves. This information was published in... column by Felipe Patury, on the Época magazine website.

The idea of ​​the congressmen involved is to focus the investigations on the negotiation for the sale of the Pasadena refinery in the United States, and on the entire divestment process of the state-owned company, with the sale of assets abroad, especially in Africa, where the state-owned company has a stake held by BTG Pactual.

In its latest edition, Época magazine published a report stating that the state-owned company headed by Graça Foster was mismanaging the sale of assets abroad. According to the publication, valuable assets of the state-owned company were being transferred at ridiculously low prices to allies of Cristina Kirchner in Argentina (read more).