Coaf sees ‘atypical move’ for firm investigated in CPI that brokered Covaxin sale | CPI for Covid

company Entered the line of sight of the CPI Covid in the Senate after a Health Ministry official pointed to irregularities in the 1.6 billion Brazilian riyals contract to purchase 20 million doses For the Indian vaccine Covaxin, which was negotiated Need acted as a mediator.

The information is contained in the documents submitted to CPI, to which TV Globo has exclusive access.

According to the report, within four months, the company’s turnover was R$43.7 million – however, Necessidade’s annual turnover was R$17 million, according to data from Coaf.

Coaf investigators also noted difficulties in determining the destination and origin of the resources in the report.

“The most expressive appropriations occurred through the same ownership, which makes it difficult to identify the creators,” the report says.

In a memo, Britta denied wrongdoing. “These are regular legal financial transactions between related companies. To consider this illegal is to want to distort the facts, because the concept of an atypical transaction for Coaf is not necessarily an irregular financial operation,” the company’s press office said.

In one of the accounts of 6M Participações, whose partner Francisco Maximiano was the co-chairman of Need, investigators identified several partial deposits of less than 10,000 Brazilian reals.

In another 6 million bank account, investigators discovered a movement of R$66.57 million between September 1, 2020 and February 28, 2021. The amount and channeled funds drew the investigators’ attention to possible fraud.

“The financial movement for the period appears to be inconsistent with the assumed financial capacity of the company considering the last reported invoice of R$5,462,850.00,” the document states.

Coaf also highlights the payments the company has made to companies in another sector. The report notes that “the company registers with CNPJ the activity in support of health management, but has made several payments to other companies engaged in the management of real estate.”

Maximian engine

TV Globo has already shown that Francisco Maximiano announced in 2020 that he has only one source of income, From them he earned 52.2 thousand Brazilian reais over the year (a monthly average of 4.3 thousand Brazilian reais).

Despite this, the businessman’s financial movement indicates a rise in spending on restaurants and luxury purchases.

In one of his personal accounts, he transferred nearly R$4 million in 2020. In another account, more than R$1.2 million was traded. The bank statement mainly shows the credits from the accounts of the companies in which he is a partner. Expenses made on the card include visits to expensive restaurants and luxury purchases

In February last year, for example, Maximiano spent more than 3,000 Prada reais in a Prada store in São Paulo. A few days later, he spent nearly R$3,000 on a popular restaurant in Brasilia. In March 2020, he spent R$5,204.00 on one visit to a steakhouse in Barueri (SP), the city where he lives. In February of this year, in one day, Maximiano spent nearly R$6,500 on purchases of clothes, shoes and supermarkets.