The cleanup has already swept through 16 areas of the Ministry of Transport.
The Official Gazette of the Union published this Wednesday three more dismissals; the Director-General of DNIT is not among the names and remains on vacation.
Three more officials linked to the Ministry of Transport have been dismissed by the Presidential Palace. The dismissals were published in today's edition of the Official Gazette of the Union. Since the beginning of the month, when the corruption allegations in the ministry were revealed, 16 people have already been removed from their positions.
Among those officially dismissed today is Eduardo Lopes, an employee of the Ministry of Transport, as anticipated by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo in its Wednesday edition. The others are employees of the state-owned company Valec: Cleilson Gadelha Queiroz, manager of bidding and contracts, and Pedro Ivan Guimarães, an advisor to the company.
Yesterday, four employees from the Ministry of Health and two from the National Department of Transport Infrastructure (DNIT) were dismissed. The immediate objective of the Presidential Palace with the dismissals is to undermine an alleged embezzlement scheme, set up over years, which supposedly has close ties to PR party leaders. Employees from the department in other states are also expected to be dismissed in the coming days. The dismissals of DNIT's Director-General, Luiz Antonio Pagot, and DNIT's Director of Road Infrastructure, Hideraldo Luiz Caron, a member of the Workers' Party (PT), are also anticipated.