The governor of Santa Catarina, Jorginho Mello (PL), traveled from Chapecó to Blumenau on Friday the 13th, on the plane of a businessman who has a R$ 2.5 million contract with the Santa Catarina administration. He was in the company of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), who currently does not hold a public office, and went to Vale do Itajaí to visit the areas affected by heavy rains at the invitation of his ally.
The politicians traveled to the region accompanied by Senator Jorge Seif and Deputy Júlia Zanatta, both from the PL of Santa Catarina. The plane landed with the group at Quero-Quero airport, in Blumenau, at 10.32am, according to a specialized aviation portal. The images published on social media show Mello and Bolsonaro getting off the plane at the regional terminal.
The Cessna 525 Citation M2 model aircraft used by the group cannot serve as an air taxi. The jet is operated by Oriente Gestão de Ativos SPE LTDA, which opened in February this year, according to the Federal Revenue Service. The company’s partners are Unifique Telecomunicações, its CEO, Fabiano Busnardo, and CLVR Participações LTDA, controlled by Clever Mannes. He is one of the shareholders of Unifique.
The government of Santa Catarina confirmed this to Estadao that the plane belongs to Unifique. Management said there was a “loan” of the plane to the group. A trip like this, lasting about 50 minutes, can cost R$40,000 (round trip), according to a quote from an airline in the region interviewed by the report.
Unifique Telecommunications has a R$2.5 million contract in place with the Fund for the Improvement of Public Safety of Santa Catarina, as of January 1, 2022. The company provides telecommunications services for “the implementation and maintenance of a system of transport of digitized data, point to point, for the transmission of images generated by the urban video monitoring system”.
Jorginho Mello began his first term as head of government on January 1, 2023. Over the past nine months, the government of Santa Catarina has paid the company R$2.3 million, according to information from the State Transparency Portal.
In September, the State Secretariat of Public Security, linked to the fund, signed a contractual modification to increase internet speed, from 20 megabits per second (Mbps) to 50 Mbps, in 51 connection points indicated by the department. The monthly contract value, for these accesses, increased by R$5,600. In other words, it went from R$115.8 thousand to R$121.4 thousand.
The CEO of Unifique, the entrepreneur Fabiano Busnardo was one of the 50 awarded by the Ministry of Communications in December last year. The Ministry organized the “5G Brazil: the legacy of a connected country” ceremony to celebrate the people and institutions that have contributed to the advancement of technology in Brazil.
Unifique was founded in 1997 in the town of Timbó, inland from Santa Catarina. The company’s share capital, registered with the Federal Revenue Service, is R$30 million.
The former president visits Vale do Itajaí
Bolsonaro, Mello and the parliamentarians arrived in Blumenau after participating in an anti-abortion act in Chapecó. In an interview with SBT in Santa Catarina, the former president said the state governor invited him to fly over the regions affected by the rains. Asked by television whether he could help overcome the crisis, the former president said he was an “ex”.
“I’m a former president. In fact they took away my right to run. It’s absurd, okay? I’ll do my best, taking advantage of the contacts I have, but I can’t say anything at the moment, no,” he said. former president, referring to the decision of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) which declared him ineligible.
The former president traveled to Vale do Itajaí two days after ministers of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) flew over the region. On Wednesday 11th, the Minister of the Environment, Marina Silva, and the Minister of Regional Development, Waldez Góes, signed a Water Governance Pact with the government of Santa Catarina to improve the management of water resources.
OR Estadao He sought out MP Júlia Zanatta and asked who owned the plane the group was traveling on and who had offered the transportation. “I don’t know,” replied the MP. “I have no idea. I didn’t ask.”
In a statement, Unifique advised that it “had a quota for this aircraft” and had not used it on the date indicated. “The other members are free to use it according to their respective quotas,” the company recorded. “The Company reiterates that it maintains maximum governance in its processes and acts ethically in its business, and has no relation to the reported incident.”
The report attempted to contact advisors to former President Jair Bolsonaro and Senator Jorge Seif. There has been no return, the space remains open.
Source: Terra
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