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      Dirceu accuses De Grandis of acting politically.

      Prosecutor Rodrigo de Grandis, who allowed an investigation into the Alstom case to be shelved after misplacing a search and seizure warrant, is accused by former Chief of Staff José Dirceu of acting under a political logic, favoring the PSDB party; "it's worth remembering that this same prosecutor, Rodrigo de Grandis, was one of those who violated my telephone privacy in the MSI-Corinthians investigation, without any legal basis," he says.

      Prosecutor Rodrigo de Grandis, who allowed an investigation into the Alstom case to be shelved because he placed a search and seizure warrant in the wrong file, is accused by former Chief of Staff José Dirceu of acting under a political logic, favoring the PSDB party; "it's worth remembering that this same prosecutor, Rodrigo de Grandis, was one of those who broke my telephone privacy in the MSI-Corinthians investigation, without any legal basis," he says (Photo: Leonardo Attuch).

      247 - Former Chief of Staff José Dirceu reacted to the Folha newspaper's report that a Swiss investigation into the Alstom case was shelved due to a procedural error by prosecutor Rodrigo de Grandis – who, according to his press office, filed a search and seizure warrant against a prominent PSDB member in the wrong file (read more). hereAccording to Dirceu, De Grandis acts according to political interests and only "fails" when members of the PSDB party are involved. Read his article below:

      Prosecutor ignores request, and Switzerland cancels investigation into bribery in the São Paulo government.

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      And now we've learned that the same prosecutor who spent a year stalling on the Federal Police report about bribery payments by the multinational Alstom during the PSDB (Brazilian Social Democracy Party) government also did nothing with documents sent by Switzerland regarding the case.

      The result: the Swiss Public Prosecutor's Office has dropped investigations into three suspects accused of acting as intermediaries in bribes paid by Alstom to politicians and public officials in São Paulo.

      The Folha de S.Paulo newspaper reports today that Switzerland, in 2011, A search and seizure warrant was requested for the home of a suspect accused of receiving bribes, but it was never executed.

      The request from Switzerland was received by the public prosecutor in São Paulo, Rodrigo de Grandis. Now he claims there was an "administrative error" and that the request was only discovered the day before yesterday.

      It's interesting that these "failures" only occur when the toucans are involved.

      Note that Switzerland requested the questioning of João Roberto Zaniboni, a former director of CPTM, a company controlled for 20 years by the PSDB party in São Paulo. He is accused of receiving R$ 1,84 million in bribes from Alstom in Switzerland. This "administrative oversight" was quite convenient for the PSDB.

      It's worth remembering that this same prosecutor, Rodrigo de Grandis, was one of those who violated my telephone privacy in the MSI-Corinthians investigation, without any legal basis, in collusion with Judge Fausto de Sanctis in his illegal escapades and abuses of authority.

      Read also the previous 247 report about a decision by De Grandis that favored Andrea Matarazzo:

      Tough Prosecutor Becomes Meek Against Matarazzo

      Rodrigo de Grandis, who gained notoriety in Operation Satiagraha, refused to indict councilman Andrea Matarazzo, identified by Alstom as the beneficiary of millions in bribes, even though a former treasurer of the PSDB party confirmed his participation in collecting slush funds for President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in 1998. Former minister José Dirceu believes De Grandis's current caution contradicts his previous actions and that he should recuse himself from the case. 

      August 23, 2013 at 07:48 AM

      247 - Prosecutor Rodrigo de Grandis, who became nationally known during Operation Satiagraha, which twice arrested banker Daniel Dantas, refused to indict city councilman Andrea Matarazzo, despite the indictment proposed by the Federal Police.

      Matarazzo, as is known, was identified by Alstom as being responsible for collecting bribes from the company (read more hereThese funds went into the slush fund of former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's 1998 campaign, a fact confirmed even by the party's former treasurer, Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira (read more). hereBecause of this, the Federal Police even decided to investigate the connection between the subway bribery scheme and FHC's campaign (read here).

      However, Rodrigo de Grandis considered the evidence presented insufficient and requested further investigations from the Federal Police before indicting Matarazzo. Former minister José Dirceu believes this action contradicts his entire previous stance. Read below the text posted by Dirceu on his blog:

      In the Alstom case, Grandis's prosecutor contradicts previous actions.

      The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF), in a case led by Public Prosecutor Rodrigo de Grandis, considered the Federal Police (PF) report that indicted PSDB politicians premature. He requested new testimonies from those involved in the case of bribe payments to PSDB members and to officials of the São Paulo state government by the French group Alstom (contracts in the areas of transport and electricity).

      Completed in August 2012, the report was based on information obtained by the Swiss Public Prosecutor's Office, which even froze accounts belonging to members of the PSDB party in São Paulo, suspected of resulting from corruption and bribes paid through contracts in which the multinational company was favored by members of the PSDB and the PSDB-led state administration from 1995 to 2003.

      But now, it's in today's Folha de S.Paulo newspaper: the federal prosecutor Rodrigo de Grandis, responsible for the case, is demanding new investigations because, according to him, it is necessary to "deepen what is already known in terms of scope. (...) This is not exceptional, it is part of the dynamics of the investigation itself." De Grandis requested new data from the Federal Revenue Service and the Central Bank regarding those involved and indicted in the scandal.

      As previously reported, the Federal Police (PF) states in the investigation that "a robust body of evidence was produced, demonstrating indications of the materiality and authorship of the crimes for which the investigated parties were indicted."

      And now, who would have thought, the former Torquemada-like federal prosecutor Rodrigo De Grandis is requesting new investigations into the corruption allegations and investigations involving the PSDB party in São Paulo. This behavior contradicts all his actions in recent years in São Paulo. He is under suspicion and should recuse himself from the case.