At the time, a former senator who is expected to join Guilherme Boulos in the SP elections classified the entrepreneur’s statements as “absurd”; this Monday, 5, after Eduardo Suplicy saved the case, he decided not to comment
The businessman Joesley Batistafrom the JBSsigned a plea agreement as part of the operation Car washin 2017, and made several accusations against politicians regarding, for example, the use of slush funds for election campaigns.
In one of the statements, Batista stated that he had paid an “indemnity” to the then senator Marta Suplicy (PT, at the time at MDB). Marta then denied having received the sums and classified Batista’s statements as “absurd”.
The issue came back into the limelight after the state MP Eduardo Suplicy (PT), Marta’s ex-husband, will go to the JBS headquarters in Sao Paulo on Monday 5th to clarify Batista’s statement on the alleged payments. Batista, however, did not receive the PT member, who spoke to one of the entrepreneur’s lawyers. Wanted by Estadao On Monday the 5th, the former mayor informed through his advisor that he will not comment on the case.
Joesley Batista spoke for six minutes about the alleged transfers to Marta. “I know Marta well. I have never had an official act with her. I have never asked her for anything, she has never asked me for anything. She was introduced to me by (former Minister of Finance, Antonio) Palocci in the 2010 election campaign. One day he told me: ‘Joesley, Marta is running for Senate and she discovered that I know you and asked me if I could introduce you.’ He put me in touch with her and I went to her office and she asked for R$1 million to support the campaign. We made a contribution of R$1 million. Now, recently, when I saw the documents, I learned that R$500,000 in the official campaign it was cash and R$500,000,” he said in an excerpt from the statement, released by Federal Supreme Court (STF) at the moment.
After testimony, Batista stated that the money allegedly treated as “indemnities” would be used in Marta’s campaign in the São Paulo mayoral dispute. “Now, from 2015 to 2016, he asked me if I could give them a monthly payment and they were paid R$200,000 in a good period of time,” he stated at the time. According to Batista there were 15 installments of R$200,000. “We gave this R$200,000 because she was a senator.”
Marta ran for mayor of São Paulo four times (2000, 2004, 2008 and 2016) and was elected in her first candidacy. In the last elections you ranked fourth with 10.14% of valid votes.
Source: Terra
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