Faced with the PSDB's (Brazilian Social Democracy Party) financial report, the media remains silent. Why?
The account has the number (18.626), was operated at Safdié bank (now Leumi), and the equivalent of R$ 64 million circulated through it between 1998 and 2002; funds linked to the scandal of bribes paid by Siemens and Alstom to governments of the PSDB party passed through it; part of the money, which was deposited in an account belonging to Jorge Fagali Neto, former secretary of the FHC government, has already been blocked; however, nothing revealed by Istoé magazine was echoed in Jornal Nacional or in the Sunday editions of Folha and Estado; shielding or complicity?
247 - This weekend, Istoé magazine published a bombshell report. Authored by Claudio Dantas Sequeira and Pedro Marcondes de Moura, it revealed the secret account used by PSDB operatives in Switzerland (read more). here). It has number (18.626), was opened at Banco Safdié, which is now called Leumi, and R$ 64 million passed through it between 1998 and 2002 alone.
All the information in this report is based on official documents that are part of the investigation into the so-called "Tucano bribery scheme," linked to the companies Alstom and Siemens, which supplied equipment for the São Paulo subway and for São Paulo's energy companies. Among the revelations, there is even information that part of the funds has already been frozen by Swiss authorities at the request of the Brazilian government. They were deposited in an account belonging to Jorge Fagali Neto, who was a secretary in the FHC government. His brother, José Jorge Fagali, presided over the subway system during José Serra's government.
Given the seriousness of the events, it would be natural for the report to be echoed today on Jornal Nacional and, a day later, in the Sunday editions of major newspapers such as Folha and Estado de S. Paulo.
However, when it comes to the PSDB, there's a kind of pact of silence in the media. Like the little monkeys in the image above, nobody saw anything, nobody heard anything, and therefore nobody will say anything about the case. It's as if the scandal simply doesn't exist.
On Globo's Jornal Nacional (JN), there's nothing about the case. Nor in the Sunday editions of the newspapers, which are already circulating this Saturday.
Why? Shielding? Complicity?
And since asking doesn't hurt, what would the treatment be if the account named "Marília" were linked to another political party?