Marconi dismisses aide linked to mansion sale.

247 - The governor of Goiás, Marconi Perillo (PSDB), dismissed 15 special advisors, including Lúcio Fiúza, who allegedly participated in the negotiation of the sale of the house where the illegal gambling operator Carlinhos Cachoeira was arrested. According to the Goiás government's press office, the advisors were dismissed to comply with the deadline for potential candidates to step down from their positions in this year's municipal elections, scheduled for October.

Marconi will have to explain to the Cachoeira Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry next Tuesday the murky operation of the sale of the house, which allegedly cost R$ 1,4 million. After the testimony of businessman Walter Santiago to the commission, taken on Tuesday the 5th, Marconi said, through a note, that the statements of the administrator of the company Mestra corroborate his claims about the sale of his house, despite the businessman contradicting the governor by maintaining that he bought the mansion in cash, in R$ 50 and R$ 100 bills, instead of checks. The money, according to Santiago, was delivered to Wladimir Garcez and Lúcio Gouthier Fiúza.

According to Marconi's version of events, the house was first sold to former city councilman Wladimir Garcez, who, in turn, told the commission that he had bought the property for R$ 1,4 million with three checks borrowed from the former director of Delta Centro-Oeste, Cláudio Abreu, and Carlinhos Cachoeira.