Federal Police request the arrest of Conab directors.

Judge Sérgio Fernando Moro, of the Court of Justice of Paraná, accepted a request for preventive detention against ten directors of the National Supply Company (Conab), including its president, Silvio Porto; he is accused of purchasing R$ 11 million worth of grape juice from two cooperatives in Rio Grande do Sul without bidding and of using his connection with Minister Gilberto Carvalho to ignore his subordination to the Minister of Agriculture.

November 06, 2013, 11:33 PMUpdated July 11, 2018, 13:02 pm

  The figures from the first survey of the 2011/2012 grain harvest will be released this Thursday (6), at the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa). The announcement will be made by the director of Agricultural Policy and Information at Conab, Sílvio (Photo: Roberta Namour)

247 – Directors of Conab (National Supply Company) could be arrested at any moment at the request of the Federal Police. Silvio Porto, linked to the Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Republic, Minister Gilberto Carvalho, is accused of purchasing R$ 11 million worth of grape juice from two cooperatives in Rio Grande do Sul without bidding. Read more in the note by Claudio Humberto, from [source name missing]. Power Diary:

Brazilian Federal Police request arrest of CONAB director and nine others.

A request for preventive detention from the Federal Police against ten directors of the National Supply Company (Conab), including its president, Silvio Porto, who is linked to the Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Republic, Minister Gilberto Carvalho, is in the hands of Judge Sérgio Fernando Moro of the Court of Justice of Paraná. This column has learned that the Federal Police are convinced that Porto is the head of an alleged criminal organization accused of diverting funds from the federal Zero Hunger program.

GHOST

Sílvio Porto was arrested by the Federal Police when Operation Agro-Fantasma was launched, which investigates the embezzlement of funds from the Zero Hunger program.

WELL ABOVE

Porto purchased R$ 11 million worth of grape juice from two cooperatives in Rio Grande do Sul without a bidding process, while the legal limit is R$ 1,5 million for each cooperative.

HOT BACKS

The president of Conab is accused of using his connection to Gilberto Carvalho to ignore his subordination to the Minister of Agriculture.

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