Post by xyz3000 on Feb 11, 2024 23:26:20 GMT -5
This Thursday (22/12), the Public Ministry of São Paulo announced that it is promoting investigations into the conduct of the São Paulo Municipal Department of Transport in the investigation of alleged fraud by three bus companies against the municipal treasury. The case of the alleged scam, a false bank guarantee to win a public tender, is already the subject of a criminal investigation in the São Paulo MP. Now, it is also the target of a civil investigation — as the Department of Transport has not taken any action to punish the companies' conduct. The person responsible for the civil investigation is Citizenship Justice Prosecutor Saad Mazloum . He announces that he has already summoned the municipal secretary of transport of São Paulo, Frederico Bussinger, to make statements in the first half of January.
We became aware that some bus companies, when they qualified for the public tender to contract this service, had presented false guarantees. The guarantee is an important procedure that companies should adopt to guarantee the good provision of public services and that there will be no continuity solution, and if there is a continuity solution, the municipality will not be at a loss”, explained Mazloum to Estonia Email List Consultor Jurídica magazine . According to Saad Mazloum, “the Municipal Department of Transport took the step of initiating an investigation and at the end of the investigation, this illicit fact was established, of presenting false guarantees and it also appears that the municipality was not adopting necessary measures, so in That's why I'm setting a date to hear the municipal secretary of transport, here at the prosecutor's office, so that he can provide clarification on the matter.
Regarding the testimony of the municipal secretary of transport, Frederico Bussinger, Mazloum clarifies that the “hearing is precisely to verify why the secretariat has not done anything and what measures it intends to adopt, because it is still possible that the municipality takes some measures, or demand new guarantees, new letters of guarantee, or even somehow cancel this contract and look for other companies to present this letter of guarantee”.at a time in which they were unaware issues such as, for example, the equity situation of the BEC or the minimum price for its sale” and that “the parameters adopted to determine the economic-financial capacity of potential buyers were set based on the net equity of the financial institution to be auctioned ” which remained unchanged with the exclusion of the State of Ceará's cash resources.
We became aware that some bus companies, when they qualified for the public tender to contract this service, had presented false guarantees. The guarantee is an important procedure that companies should adopt to guarantee the good provision of public services and that there will be no continuity solution, and if there is a continuity solution, the municipality will not be at a loss”, explained Mazloum to Estonia Email List Consultor Jurídica magazine . According to Saad Mazloum, “the Municipal Department of Transport took the step of initiating an investigation and at the end of the investigation, this illicit fact was established, of presenting false guarantees and it also appears that the municipality was not adopting necessary measures, so in That's why I'm setting a date to hear the municipal secretary of transport, here at the prosecutor's office, so that he can provide clarification on the matter.
Regarding the testimony of the municipal secretary of transport, Frederico Bussinger, Mazloum clarifies that the “hearing is precisely to verify why the secretariat has not done anything and what measures it intends to adopt, because it is still possible that the municipality takes some measures, or demand new guarantees, new letters of guarantee, or even somehow cancel this contract and look for other companies to present this letter of guarantee”.at a time in which they were unaware issues such as, for example, the equity situation of the BEC or the minimum price for its sale” and that “the parameters adopted to determine the economic-financial capacity of potential buyers were set based on the net equity of the financial institution to be auctioned ” which remained unchanged with the exclusion of the State of Ceará's cash resources.