Caixa also provided security and internet for Pedro Guimarães’ mansion

Caixa Econômica Federal not only paid for works on the mansion where the former president of the bank Pedro Guimarães lived in Brasília (DF), but also provided security and an internet network for the property.

THE Sheet gathered secret reports that agents took turns guarding the house, seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

Among other companies, Caixa has a security contract with Confederal, signed in 2021, which provides for eight security guards for the presidency of the bank at a unit price of BRL 11,500, which represents BRL 91,400 per month. . Each security guard has a 44-hour shift per week, the document says.

Only the president has that specific kind of security. There are no details on where the service is provided.

The contract lists 116 Caixa units that receive 283 Confederal security guards with different attributions, working hours and responsibilities. In almost all of them, there is the address where they will work.

This is not the case of the line that specifies the amount destined for the presidency.

Caixa and Guimarães’ lawyer, José Luis Oliveira Lima, said that, like the works carried out by the state bank, the security guards were provided for by threats that Guimarães would have suffered.

“It was a decision by Caixa for the safety of the institution’s president,” said Oliveira Lima.

Caixa stated that it makes personal safety devices available to employees and managers “exposed to a risk situation regarding their physical integrity, due to the exercise of their attributions, through an adequate assessment of the degree of criticality involved and the compatibility of the instruments necessary for the prevention of incidents resulting from this risk”.

Regarding the internet, Caixa informed that “given the relevance of the position, the bank provides secure access, notebook and corporate cell phone to the bank’s presidency for their work activities”.

The institution did not answer, however, which contractor was used in the service, the legal support, who was the author of the request, who authorized it, how many agents were employed, what was the cost to the bank and if there were precedents, limited to generally say that the measure is provided for in the internal rules and complied with the governance rules.

Oliveira Lima sent an ordinance from the Federal Police that launched an inquiry in July 2020 to investigate threats against Guimarães made in a Telegram group in which forms of fraud against the Emergency Aid paid by Caixa during the Covid-19 pandemic were alleged.

The threat reported in the ordinance is that of a profile that suggested “taking a relative” of the then president of Caixa, “cutting off at least one of his fingers and sending it to the address inside a gift box”.

“There were several threats, this is one of them,” said the lawyer.

The investigation investigated a hacker attack on the president after the bank strengthened security measures to prevent aid payment scams. One person was arrested in September as part of the investigation.

THE Sheet revealed on Tuesday (5) that the bank paid for the installation of 11 light poles at the residence of Guimarães. The financial institution confirmed the information and claimed security reasons.

The interventions were carried out in July 2020 by four employees of a company that has contracts with the public bank to carry out maintenance services in its buildings and branches.

Guimarães left Caixa last week after the website Metrópoles revealed accusations of several cases of sexual and moral harassment practiced during his management.

In addition to him, Vice President Celso Leonardo also resigned on suspicion of covering up cases of harassment.

Guimarães was considered one of the closest assistants to Jair Bolsonaro (PL), being the record holder for participation in the president’s lives. There have been 28 broadcasts since the beginning of the current administration. The last was the week before his resignation.

The former president of Caixa was replaced by Daniella Marques, who served as special advisor to the Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes. She promised to hire an outside consultancy to investigate the harassment cases.

This will not be the only investigation into the matter, as the MPF (Federal Public Ministry), the MPT (Public Ministry of Labour) and the TCU (Union Court of Auditors) have also initiated procedures to investigate what was happening in the bank under Guimarães. .

The MPT inspected the financial institution’s headquarters in Brasília on Monday (4). The institution will also ask the MPF to share evidence obtained in its investigations.

Bolsonaro turned the inauguration of the new Caixa president into a political platform and ignored the accusations of harassment against Guimarães. According to the President of the Republic, the new administration will be a continuation of the previous one. The ceremony took place on Tuesday.