Elias files request for a Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CEI) for Comurg on Tuesday.
So far, only eight city councilors have registered their support for an investigation by the City Council into irregularities at Goiânia's urban cleaning company; the minimum required for its establishment is 12 signatures; a councilor from the PSB party says he will file a request with any number to officially register the councilors "complicit in the corruption that has taken hold at Comurg and those (councilors) who are not being complicit"; alleged irregularities, denounced by Elias himself and the Public Prosecutor's Office, range from excessive salaries to bid rigging.
Goiás247_ Councilman Elias Vaz (PSB) will give council members until next Tuesday, the 25th, to sign the request to establish a Special Commission of Inquiry (CEI) to investigate irregularities at Comurg. So far, eight council members have signed the document. To open the CEI, the approval of at least twelve is required. Otherwise, the request is archived. “Regardless of the number of signatures, I decided to file the request to officially register who are the council members who are not complicit in the corruption that has taken hold at Comurg, who are not being negligent. It's a way to make it very clear who is willing to investigate the irregularities, so that society is aware of this,” says Elias Vaz.
The councilman has been fighting since last year to establish a Special Commission of Inquiry in the City Council to investigate Comurg. The initiative gained momentum with the repercussions of other irregularities, such as a loan sharking scheme by the Union of Employees in Cleaning, Conservation, Public and Environmental Cleaning, Garbage Collection and Similar Companies of the State of Goiás (Seacons); Comurg's transfers to the Union of almost R$3 million over 10 years and 0,2% of the gross payroll of the Company to the Association of Comurg Workers (Ascom); alleged misappropriation of Seacons funds for the benefit of Union directors and cases of privileges and nepotism.
Elias Vaz also denounced the payment of excessive salaries, including bonuses and overtime of up to R$7 per month, paid even to employees assigned to the Union, and problems with Comurg's contracts with the companies Lopac Locadora de Veículos e Equipamentos Ltda and Metropolitana Serviços Ambientais Ltda for the rental of garbage collection trucks in Goiânia. Last November, the councilman found that the city hall had already spent almost enough on rentals to buy two fleets. He also received information that, although the contract stipulated that Metropolitana would provide the service with its own drivers, Comurg employees were driving the vehicles in one shift, and the company's employees were responsible for the maintenance of the trucks from both companies. Furthermore, a video recorded by an employee and sent to the councilman shows Comurg vehicles without wheels and engines. According to the complaint, the fleet had been 'stripped' and some of the parts were intended to replace those of trucks from companies that provide services to the company.
City council members who have already signed the request:
Elias Vaz (PSB)
Thiago Albernaz (PSDB)
Dr Gian (PSDB)
Tatiana Lemos (PCdoB)
Geovani Antônio (PSDB)
Virmondes Cruvinel Filho (PSD)
Djalma Araújo (SDD)
Dr. Cristina (PSDB)