Jucá changed the provisional measure at Gerdau's request, says Federal Police.

247 - Senator and former interim Planning Minister Romero Jucá (PMDB-RR) altered the content of a provisional measure at the behest of the chairman of the board of directors of the Gerdau group, Jorge Gerdau Johhanpeter. This information is contained in a report by the Federal Police carried out during Operation Zelotes.

Jucá was the rapporteur for Provisional Measure 627, issued in 2013 by President Dilma Rousseff, which dealt with the taxation of multinational profits abroad. 

According to the Federal Police, there was an exchange of emails between Jucá and Gerdau two months before the Provisional Measure was approved by Congress. On that date, the senator's office sent Gerdau a message containing an excerpt from the Provisional Measure. The executive forwarded the email to his legal advisor and received what, according to the Federal Police, was a draft of the response to Jucá.

In it, the advisor added another paragraph and said that the senator's text, as it was sent, "does not fully meet the requirements," since only one of the amendments of interest to the group had been included.

The paragraph added by Gerdau's legal advisor is included in the final version of the law.

According to the Federal Police, the material "indicates possible practices embodied in the illegal negotiation of amendments to provisional measures [...], in exchange for electoral donations, with elements that point to the participation of (allegedly criminal) conduct" by Jucá and deputies Alfredo Kaefer (PSL-PR) and Jorge Côrte Real (PTB-PE).

In the case of Representatives Kaefer and Côrte Real, both signed three amendments whose approval was advocated by Gerdau to Jucá and the Ministry of Finance. The investigators did not specify whether any of them were accepted.