The video shows Joãozinho Pereira, superintendent of Codevasf in Alagoas and Lira’s cousin, celebrating the work on a Pereira Group tractor
A company belonging to the family of the president of the Chamber, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), was involved in a paving project carried out by the Companhia de Desenvolvimento dos Vales do São Francisco e do Parnaíba (Codevasf) in Alagoas, which is led by a cousin of the parliamentarian. The information is from the newspaper The globe.
The resources for laying cobblestones in the streets of the area known as Atoleiro, located in the municipality of Junqueiro, came from the secret budget sent by Arthur Lira, as revealed by him to the Federal Supreme Court (STF).
The President of the Chamber has allocated an amount of R$ 1.1 million to finance the paving services carried out by Codevasf in Junqueiro. Initially, these resources were assigned to a contract with the company Vibal Construções e Serviços, responsible for carrying out the works.
However, in a video dated May 27 this year, the superintendent of Codevasf in Alagoas, Joãozinho Pereira, together with his brother, the state deputy Fernando Pereira (PP-AL), celebrate the start of the works by appearing on a tractor belonging to the Pereira Group.
The partners of the company are Zirlene Pereira, their mother, and her sister, former deputy Jó Pereira. Lira is the cousin of brothers Joãozinho and Fernando Pereira.
“The works are taking place in the municipality of Junqueiro through Codevasf and the parliamentary amendments of our federal deputy Arthur Lira and at the request of our state deputy Fernando Pereira. Let’s deliver this beautiful work starting here today, and work on the car. Stick to the car,” Joãozinho says in the video.
The leasing of the machinery was confirmed by Vibal’s managing partner, Ivandi Brilhante de Araújo Jr., who explained that the subleasing was a decision made due to the inability to mobilize its equipment for the region. Vibal has its headquarters in Barra dos Coqueiros, Sergipe, 160 kilometers from Junqueiro.
“It is normal for us to rent equipment from another company, even for other jobs in other contracts we also rent equipment. The problem in this case is that the Pereira Group is a political group, but my company has nothing to do with it. This – supports the owner of Vibal, who has already received transfers of R$ 7.2 million for other Codevasf services in the cities of Alagoas”, he said The globe.
Joãozinho and MP Fernando denied that Vibal had rented the machinery for the Codevasf project. Fernando said that the car is often “made available to people who ask for it, friends, voters, local associations”, with the aim of “improving access” to other roads in the Atoleiro region.
Given the information that the car was located exactly on the Codevasf construction site, the deputy changed his version and recognized that the car was crossing the road in question.
Joãozinho stated that there was no payment to the Pereira group. “The machinery of the Pereira Group has never been used to carry out work without rent, for payment or without the necessary contractual coverage in Junqueiro or in any other municipality”, he declared.
What did Lira say?
Arthur Lira argued that “evaluating the use of machinery, whether they are part of a work or whether they were used only to illustrate an action” does not fall within his “institutional functions”. Lira also said that requests like the one presented by his cousin, Fernando Pereira, to allocate amendments to work in the village of Atoleiro are part of the “dynamics of daily politics” and “can be made in meetings, on platforms, in site visits “.
Source: Terra
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