Son of former advisor to Gleisi and municipal secretary are arrested.
André Willian Szpak Gaiveski, son of Eduardo Gaievski, former advisor to Minister Gleisi Hoffmann, and lawyer Fernando da Silva Borges, Secretary of Administration for the municipality of Realeza, were arrested in the act on charges of witness intimidation and conspiracy; they were allegedly heading to a notary's office, accompanied by two witnesses, who supposedly accepted financial offers to alter testimonies incriminating Eduardo Gaievski, who is accused of committing nearly 40 crimes involving rape and sexual harassment.
247 - The Civil Police of Paraná arrested this Wednesday (23) André Willian Szpak Gaiveski, 19, son of Eduardo Gaievski, former advisor to Minister Gleisi Hoffmann, and lawyer Fernando da Silva Borges, 29, Secretary of Administration of the municipality of Realeza, 540 kilometers from Curitiba (PR). The two were arrested in flagrante delicto on charges of intimidation of witnesses and forming a gang. The information is from Portal Terra.
André and Fernando were reportedly heading to a notary's office, accompanied by two witnesses who allegedly accepted financial offers to alter testimonies incriminating Eduardo Gaievski. The former advisor to the Civil House, arrested in August, is accused of committing nearly 40 crimes involving rape of a vulnerable person, aggravated rape, sexual harassment, and aggravated sexual harassment. Gaievski was also indicted for the crime of malfeasance by a municipal mayor, as he allegedly offered positions in the Realeza city hall in exchange for sexual encounters.
André, Fernando, and others connected to the former advisor to the Chief of Staff had been monitored by the Public Prosecutor's Office for several days. The Prosecutor's Office had received reports that witnesses were being approached to change their testimonies. The two were arrested at the Ampére city junction. Along with them were two mothers of alleged victims. Each had reportedly received an offer of R$ 1 to alter previous versions of their testimonies. The intention was to register the new versions at a notary's office in Francisco Beltrão.
Since September, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Realeza has maintained an investigation to determine the participation of people from the city, including municipal employees, in intimidating witnesses in the case, following Gaievski's arrest.
Shortly after the arrest of the former aide to Minister Gleisi, Veja magazine published a report claiming to have had access to an exchange of emails between Gaievski and his lawyer, Rafael Seben, during the period when the former aide was already imprisoned in Curitiba. According to the magazine, the content of the messages indicated that Gaievski was telling the lawyer which victims could be approached to drop the sexual assault charges.
In addition to financial offers, people connected to Gaievski were also allegedly pressuring witnesses with threats. Retired João Pontes, grandfather of one of the victims, said he was threatened to vacate a plot of land belonging to the city if his granddaughter's statements were not removed from the case file.