The José Serra case disappears from the Brazilian press.

247 - The Brazilian press demonstrated once again this Sunday that it protects Senator José Serra (PSDB-SP), who, along with his daughter Verônica Serra, was accused of transnational money laundering related to multimillion-dollar embezzlements in the Rodoanel highway construction project and the receipt of bribes abroad. The Serra scheme even led to an account containing R$ 40 million being frozen, but the corporate media seems no longer interested in the matter.

Check out the video about the bulletproof glass, the statement from the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office, and the full indictment:

The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) filed charges this Friday (3) against former governor and current senator José Serra (PSDB/SP) and his daughter, Verônica Allende Serra, for the practice of transnational money laundering. According to the charges filed by the Lava Jato Task Force in São Paulo, between 2006 and 2007, José Serra used his position and political influence to receive undue payments from Odebrecht in exchange for benefits related to the Rodoanel Sul works. Millions of reais were paid by the construction company through a sophisticated network of offshore companies abroad, so that the real beneficiary of the funds would not be detected by the control bodies.

The investigations, conducted as an offshoot of other lines of work in the Lava Jato operation in São Paulo, demonstrated that José Amaro Pinto Ramos and Verônica Serra established companies abroad, concealing their names, and through them, received payments that Odebrecht intended for the then-governor of São Paulo. In this context, they made numerous transfers to disguise the origin of the funds, and kept them in an offshore account secretly controlled by Verônica Serra until the end of 2014, when they were transferred to another account with concealed ownership in Switzerland.

Operation Revoada – In parallel with the indictment, the task force also launched Operation Revoada today to further investigate other facts related to the same money laundering scheme benefiting José Serra. With authorization from the Federal Court, eight search and seizure warrants are being executed in São Paulo (SP) and Rio de Janeiro (RJ).

So far, the task force has detected that tens of millions of reais may have been laundered in the scheme involving Odebrecht and José Serra over the past few years. With the evidence collected so far, the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office obtained authorization from the Federal Court to freeze approximately R$ 40 million in a Swiss bank account.

In a time of uncertainty, the Lava Jato Task Force in São Paulo reaffirms its commitment to a technical, impartial, and calm approach. The investigations remain confidential.

Full text of the complaint