A wing led by PT president Gleisi Hoffmann took a stand against the idea under discussion in the Lula 3 government of exchanging R$10 billion in fines applied by contractors investigated by Lava Jato for works.
The plan, reported by Panel SA, provides that, instead of depositing the installments of the agreement in the Union’s account, they would apply this resource directly to engineering works to be defined by the government.
With these contracts, builders could even go to banks to request loans. Today, their credit is restricted and one of the factors is precisely the lack of works in their portfolio.
The future chief minister of the Civil House, Rui Costa, has been coordinating these discussions. The idea is to place the lawyer Vinicius Carvalho at the head of the Comptroller General of the Union – responsible for agreements closed in the past.
Carvalho was president of Cade (Administrative Council for Economic Defense), the body that most uses leniency as a tool to combat cartels in bidding processes.
The wing linked to Gleisi argues that this exchange could harm state-owned companies that have suffered damage. Reports from those who participated in the discussions indicate that, for this group, Petrobras, the main target affected by Lava Jato, would no longer receive resources that are even linked to negotiations with international investors.
Julio Wiziack (interim) with Paulo Ricardo Martins, Fernanda Brigatti and Diego Felix
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