Eduardo finds it strange that he was not heard in the internal investigation.

Tocantins 247 - State Representative Eduardo Siqueira Campos (PTB) took to the podium of the Legislative Assembly this Tuesday, the 19th, to question the investigation of the Tocantins Institute of Pension Management (Igeprev) during the period from 2011 to 2014, which holds it jointly liable for losses in investments that may exceed R$ 1 billion.

Eduardo claimed that he was cited in an internal investigation and accused of participating in irregularities by members of the current government without having been heard. "The disclosure of an internal investigation yesterday surprised me, as I was not heard, I never received an official letter, nothing," he stated. "Perhaps an internal investigation is not the place to present opposing arguments, but right at the beginning the investigation claims to use indirect evidence, through logical-deductive reasoning," he reported.

Eduardo Siqueira, who was president of the Board of Directors of Igeprev between 2011 and 2013, said that he was never consulted about any investments in illiquid funds, most of which were made by the institute's investment superintendent, Edson Santana Matos. The congressman also said that he was not negligent while he was president of the board. "The Board always had a president leading the meetings as determined by the Igeprev statute," he emphasized. "I will follow up, I will always respond when summoned, and I will not be negligent," the congressman stated.

The legislator also highlighted that the investigation omitted information regarding investments that had already been subject to convictions related to previous administrations of Governor Marcelo Miranda.

Eduardo Siqueira Campos's harsh speech was in response to the president of Igeprev, Jacques Silva, who accused him, in his capacity as chairman of the Board of Directors, of not taking any measures to prevent investments in illiquid funds with a high probability of causing losses to Igeprev. 

"[The Board of Directors] could have done something but didn't. And if it did anything, it was to provide support. The Chairman of the Board, from the very beginning, was Mr. Eduardo Siqueira Campos," stated Jacques Silva. The report also says that in March 2011, the then-president of Igeprev, Lillian Campos, questioned the degree of risk and the necessity of the first investment made by Edson Santana as the person responsible for the institute's investments. This was an investment of R$ 10,5 million made on March 14th in the Patriarca fund, which was the first to register unrecoverable losses.

"The facts that could have been avoided if the considerations of former President Lillian Campos, including those in writing, as recorded in Official Letters No. 794/2011 and 861/2011, on pages 2.207 to 2.213 of the case file, had been taken into account at that time by Mr. José Eduardo Siqueira Campos," the report states.

The report from the Igeprev internal investigation also states that Lillian Campos' questioning of Edson Santana Matos' investment policy resulted in her dismissal from the presidency of Igeprev in 2011. "However, what followed was the strange dismissal of Ms. Lillian Aparecida de Melo Campos and the appointment of Mr. Gustavo Furtado Silbernagel, Legal Advisor to Mr. José Eduardo Siqueira Campos at SEPLAN, as President of IGEPREV-TO, thus leaving the then Superintendent of Investments, Mr. Edson Santana Matos, free to, along with the aforementioned former Presidents, commit a flood of irregularities in the application of this Institute's resources," the report says.

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