Use of helicopters during the Murad era may be the subject of a parliamentary inquiry.

Raimundo Garrone's Blog This time it became untenable, and the deputies should indeed file a request for a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry to investigate the contracts with PMR Táxi Aéreo e Manutenção and the State Health Secretariat during Ricardo Murad's administration.

The request for a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry gained traction among deputies after allegations of the company's aircraft being used in the political campaign of congresswoman Andréa Murad (PMDB), daughter of the former secretary who received a campaign donation of R$ 120 from CC Pavimentações, owned by the same proprietor as PMR, based in Rio Grande do Sul.

Congresswoman Murad's campaign was the only one in the entire country to receive a donation from CC Pavimentações, even though the company does not provide any services in Maranhão!

To complete the donation, it was made on August 1st, one day after the health department paid R$ 411 to PMR.

It was also in August, on the 12th, that the congresswoman paid R$ 110 by check for the rental of a PMR helicopter for her campaign; however, the check was only cashed on September 19th, and strangely, the invoice for the service was not included in her campaign's financial report submitted to the TRE-MA, as required by law.

A report from the Health Department, under the new administration of Flávio Dino, also points to a series of irregularities in PMR's contracts between 2011 and 2014.

The SES detected that most of the time when PMR aircraft crossed the skies of Maranhão they were not carrying patients or even technicians to inspect works, as Ricardo Murad cleverly added to the objects of the contracts.

In 2014, for example, the department paid R$ 4,9 million to PMR for 1080 flight hours, of which only 204 hours were used for aeromedical services.

Each of the two helicopters had a minimum revenue of 45 hours/month, which was equivalent to a monthly amount of R$ 411, exactly the amount paid on July 31, 2014, one day before the donation from CC Pavimentações.

Apart from that, when the aircraft actually took off, Coroatá was one of the preferred destinations. Last year there were almost 60 flights to Coroatá, and the highest peak of landings and takeoffs was between August and September, a period of full electoral activity, when the aircraft were in the city, governed by Ricardo Murad's wife, at least 20 times.

However, only two of these flights are listed in the report of services provided by the Air Medical Transport as attending to urgent-emergency patients.