In a 209-page report, the Federal Police in São Paulo detailed the intricacies of what it called a “complex structure” set up to operationalize the diversion of Health resources in five São Paulo municipalities – Embu das Artes, Itapecerica da Serra, Hortolândia, São Vicente and Cajamar – in contracts of more than R$300 million. The suspicions in question were investigated in the context of Operation Contagion, which culminated in the indictment of 27 people investigated for an estimated deviation of R$ 40 million.
The indictment in the investigation is a police indication of the alleged involvement of the investigated in illegal acts. Now, it will be up to the Federal Public Ministry to denounce or not those mentioned in Operation Contagion for possible opening of criminal action.
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The inquiry was completed on Wednesday, 22, with the submission of the report to the Federal Court of São Paulo. Investigators accused the group under suspicion of crimes of criminal organization, money laundering, embezzlement of public resources, overpricing in the supply of medicines, fraud in bidding and use of false documents.
In the final report, delegate André Luiz Barbieri, from the Police for the Repression of Corruption and Financial Crimes, says that the criminal organization investigated “is structurally ordered with clear divisions of tasks and aims to obtain an advantage through the diversion of public resources from the area of health and its money laundering”.
The investigators point out that “there are those responsible for the operational, financial (transfer, withdrawals and armed escort of resources) and administrative (including the existence of formal advisers who are unaware of the entity’s activities)” sectors of the group.
The PF’s conclusion was that the main source of deviations operated by the group under suspicion are medical shifts. The corporation says that the investigated social organization, the Metropolitan Management Association (AMG), “subcontracted the services of on-call physicians, and all the amount received from public entities was transferred to private for-profit companies belonging to OS controllers”.
“In practice, it was observed that the effective payment to health professionals for the medical shifts carried out was made at amounts much lower than those established with the government. […] In this way, the difference between the amount received and what was actually paid to the doctors was diverted to the members of the criminal organization, either through withdrawals in kind, or through transfers to other companies belonging to the members of the group”, the PF registered.
The investigators also pointed out that the members of the criminal organization targeted by Operation Contagion had “an ostentatious profile”. The PF listed objects seized during the investigations – including vehicles, boats, luxury cars, large sums of money and species – and recorded: “In the cell phones of some investigated, it was possible to identify the fact that they like to show the resources from the crime”.
Operation Contagion had two ostensible phases, occasions in which the PF seized more than R$700,000 in cash at addresses linked to those investigated, and ‘a good part’ of the money was located in ‘a bunker office belonging to OS itself’. Part of the steps were carried out in city halls in the interior of São Paulo, such as in Hortolândia.
Two defendants are in preventive detention by order of the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region and two doctors are considered fugitives, says the PF.
WITH THE WORD, THE DEFENSE
The report in the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo left open space for all the investigated mentioned in the Federal Police’s 209-page report.
In a 209-page report, the Federal Police in São Paulo detailed the intricacies of what it called a “complex structure” set up to operationalize the diversion of Health resources in five São Paulo municipalities – Embu das Artes, Itapecerica da Serra, Hortolândia, São Vicente and Cajamar – in contracts of more than R$300 million. The suspicions in question were investigated in the context of Operation Contagion, which culminated in the indictment of 27 people investigated for an estimated deviation of R$ 40 million.
The indictment in the investigation is a police indication of the alleged involvement of the investigated in illegal acts. Now, it will be up to the Federal Public Ministry to denounce or not those mentioned in Operation Contagion for possible opening of criminal action.
read more:
The inquiry was completed on Wednesday, 22, with the submission of the report to the Federal Court of São Paulo. Investigators accused the group under suspicion of crimes of criminal organization, money laundering, embezzlement of public resources, overpricing in the supply of medicines, fraud in bidding and use of false documents.
In the final report, delegate André Luiz Barbieri, from the Police for the Repression of Corruption and Financial Crimes, says that the criminal organization investigated “is structurally ordered with clear divisions of tasks and aims to obtain an advantage through the diversion of public resources from the area of health and its money laundering”.
The investigators point out that “there are those responsible for the operational, financial (transfer, withdrawals and armed escort of resources) and administrative (including the existence of formal advisers who are unaware of the entity’s activities)” sectors of the group.
The PF’s conclusion was that the main source of deviations operated by the group under suspicion are medical shifts. The corporation says that the investigated social organization, the Metropolitan Management Association (AMG), “subcontracted the services of on-call physicians, and all the amount received from public entities was transferred to private for-profit companies belonging to OS controllers”.
“In practice, it was observed that the effective payment to health professionals for the medical shifts carried out was made at amounts much lower than those established with the government. […] In this way, the difference between the amount received and what was actually paid to the doctors was diverted to the members of the criminal organization, either through withdrawals in kind, or through transfers to other companies belonging to the members of the group”, the PF registered.
The investigators also pointed out that the members of the criminal organization targeted by Operation Contagion had “an ostentatious profile”. The PF listed objects seized during the investigations – including vehicles, boats, luxury cars, large sums of money and species – and recorded: “In the cell phones of some investigated, it was possible to identify the fact that they like to show the resources from the crime”.
Operation Contagion had two ostensible phases, occasions in which the PF seized more than R$700,000 in cash at addresses linked to those investigated, and ‘a good part’ of the money was located in ‘a bunker office belonging to OS itself’. Part of the steps were carried out in city halls in the interior of São Paulo, such as in Hortolândia.
Two defendants are in preventive detention by order of the Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region and two doctors are considered fugitives, says the PF.
WITH THE WORD, THE DEFENSE
The report in the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo left open space for all the investigated mentioned in the Federal Police’s 209-page report.
