Brazilian Federal Police deny having information about alleged money transfers from the PCC to Ciro Nogueira.
Senate police also denied that the senator met with members of the PCC.
From the Legal Consultant portal – Unlike what it was published through the portal ICL News On Sunday (August 31), the Federal Police had no information about the alleged money transfer by members of the criminal organization. First Capital Command (PCC) to Senator and national president of the Progressistas (PP) party, Ciro Nogueira, as reported by the online magazine. Counsel.
O ICL It was revealed, based on an alleged anonymous witness, that the congressman had received a cardboard bag containing cash from Mohamad Hussein Mourad, known as "Primo," and Roberto Augusto Leme da Silva, known as "Beto Louco." They were identified as leaders of a scheme through which the faction allegedly managed investment funds in Faria Lima, in addition to fraud in the fuel sector. They have been fugitives since the Federal Police investigation was launched on Thursday (August 28).
"He (Crazy Beto) said that (the bag with money) "It was for Ciro Nogueira. They were going to meet Ciro, in possession of this bag. It was a cardboard bag. It was a stapled bag. Of a width compatible with the size of a banknote," the alleged witness reportedly said in an exclusive interview with [source name]. ICL News.
He also stated that the meeting with the senator took place in the politician's office in August 2024, and that he had already recounted the conversation in an official statement to the Federal Police.
In response to a letter from Nogueira, the Federal Senate Police Secretariat informed this Monday (September 1st) that the president of the PP did not receive any visits from Mohamad Hussein Mourad or Roberto Augusto Leme da Silva in his office in the year 2024.
Arrangements
In response to the anonymous complaint, the senator sent a letter to the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Ricardo Lewandowski, requesting that the Federal Police investigate the case: “I ask Your Excellency to order, with the utmost urgency, the Federal Police to request the entry records to my office in the aforementioned year or any other year, and to request the images and entry records to the headquarters or offices of these individuals.” information It's from the portal. Brazil 247.
Here is the full text sent by Ciro Nogueira to the Minister of Justice:
Mr. Minister, Attached is correspondence from the website. ICL, admittedly a left-wing attack site against its adversaries, a kind of digital militia, with very serious and unfair slanders imputed against me by an alleged witness who supposedly told the Federal Police — under your command — that I had: Received cash from a figure identified as a leader of the PCC;
That he and some of his representatives would have met with me in my office;
That I allegedly acted in favor of this criminal organization within the National Petroleum Agency (ANP);
That my positions on the bill currently being debated in the Federal Senate, regarding habitual debtors, could have any connection with this sordid plot.
In informing Your Excellency that these individuals have never been in my office, that I have never had any kind of proximity to them, and therefore could never have advocated on their behalf, and that the unacceptable hypothesis that they could have financially benefited me in any way is absolutely false, I request that Your Excellency order, with the utmost urgency, the Federal Police to request the entry records to my office in the aforementioned year or any other year, and to request the images and entry records to the headquarters or offices of these individuals. I hereby place ALL my confidential information at your disposal (starting with that of my office, my telephone, and all others) to prove that I have never maintained any connection with any criminal faction. I understand that freedom of the press is a fundamental value of democracy, and all who know me are well aware that the fight against crime in general and organized crime in particular has always been and will continue to be one of the cornerstones of my activity as a parliamentarian. I request urgency and I want to believe that the important fight against and repression of criminal organizations will not be used as an instrument of... Political persecution, through the proliferation of false and utterly mendacious information that never happened or would ever happen. Your Excellency, as a former magistrate, I am certain you will know how to contain the primitive impulses of the extreme left that may want to turn something fundamental—the dismantling of organized crime in Brazil—into an instrument of attack and an attempt to obtain abominable political gains through the sordid use of fragments, with the sole purpose of intimidating or tarnishing those who oppose this government, as is my case, something absolutely legitimate in a democracy. They will in no way affect me with this kind of depravity. I have a clear conscience and the truth on my side. I want more, not less, investigation. Sincerely, CIRO NOGUEIRA Senator of the Republic (PP-PI)
Click here to read the response from the Federal Senate Police Secretariat
