Allegations that the Attorney General's Office was already against Geddel's building worsen the crisis, says Humberto.
The revelation that the Attorney General's Office (AGU), like Iphan (National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage), had already prohibited Geddel Vieira Lima's (PMDB) real estate development from exceeding the permitted height limit in a protected historical area in the city of Salvador is a very serious fact that only aggravates the crisis; "It is something shameful, which also warrants the investigation of common crimes committed by Michel Temer – a confessed defendant, a person who publicly admitted that, as President of the Republic, he acted in favor of private interests – as well as the crimes of responsibility he committed while in office," he pointed out.
Pernambuco 247 - The revelation that the Attorney General's Office (AGU), along with the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (Iphan), had already prohibited Geddel Vieira Lima's (PMDB) luxury real estate development from exceeding the permitted height limit in a protected historical area in the city of Salvador comes as a new bombshell for the government. This is the assessment of the PT leader in the Senate, Humberto Costa (PE).
According to him, the very serious news, released this Wednesday (30) by the branch of the British journalistic company BBC in Brazil, demonstrates that the Planalto Palace is a criminal consortium operated by the unelected president himself, Michel Temer (PMDB).
"They acted deliberately to have technical opinions from two state bodies disregarded so that the private interests of a high-ranking government official could be fully served," the parliamentarian summarized.
Geddel left the government amidst the scandal dubbed "Calegrate." The case came to light after the Minister of Culture, Marcelo Calero, resigned after being pressured by the Presidential Palace to authorize the construction of a building in the capital of Bahia. IPHAN, the agency linked to the ministry, had already decided to halt the construction, which angered Geddel.
According to Humberto, the former Minister of the Government Secretariat, with ulterior motives, put the country's power core, including "the diminutive figure of the President of the Republic," to work in favor of approving the project.
"It is something shameful, which also warrants the investigation of the common crimes committed by Michel Temer – a confessed defendant, a person who publicly admitted that, as President of the Republic, he acted in favor of private interests – as well as the crimes of responsibility that he committed while in office," he declared.
The PT leader also spoke about the seriousness of the conversations recorded by Calero that implicate Temer, the Minister of the Civil House, Eliseu Padilha, and the Deputy Chief of Legal Affairs of the Civil House, Gustavo Rocha, appointed to the position by Eduardo Cunha.
Humberto believes the recordings prove that the Minister of Culture refused to break the law and disregard the opinions of Iphan and AGU that prohibited the project.
"And what did the criminal conspiracy at the Presidential Palace do? The President of the Republic instructed the Deputy Chief of Staff to reiterate what he himself, Michel Temer, and the Chief of Staff, Eliseu Padilha, had already personally told Marcelo Calero: take the case and send it directly to the Attorney General's Office, where the Chief Minister, Grace Mendonça, will sort it out, will attend to what we want and what you, Marcelo Calero, refuse to do," he stated.
Humberto expects swift answers from the Attorney General's Office (PGR) regarding the crimes committed by Temer and others, and believes that Padilha and Rocha have much to explain about why they wanted to refer to the Attorney General's Office a case that was already finalized in their denial of authorization for that illegal construction.
According to the senator, the Attorney General, whose predecessor also left office denouncing political pressure and accusing her of leniency in investigating Temer's political cronies, must also say what loophole she would use to make viable a project that the very institution she leads prohibited from being built beyond what was stipulated.
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