Prosecutors open investigation into corruption charges against Alckmin's secretary.
The Secretary of the Environment for the São Paulo state government, lawyer Ricardo Salles, creator of the "Endireita Brasil" (Right-Wing Brazil) movement, is accused of administrative misconduct along with two employees of the secretariat for possible interference in the process of drafting the management plan for the Várzea do Rio Tietê Environmental Protection Area (APA).
SP 247 - The Public Prosecutor's Office of São Paulo has opened an investigation against the Secretary of the Environment of the São Paulo state government, Ricardo Salles, for administrative misconduct. He is accused, along with two employees of the secretariat, of possible interference in the process of preparing the management plan for the Várzea do Rio Tietê Environmental Protection Area (APA).
After Salles took over the ministry, the plan, approved in January by the State Environmental Council (Consema), underwent changes to the zoning of the protected area to make it more permissive for industrial and mining activities. The investigation indicates that there was no justification for the changes and that there was pressure to ensure they went unnoticed, it says. report from Estado de S.Paulo.
Prosecutor Silvio Marques, from the Public and Social Heritage prosecutor's office, defined the changes as "malicious" for "allowing companies to benefit" in a press conference about the investigation given this Friday, the 17th.