Tarcísio on case Ultrafarma: Vagabundo has to be treated with rigor

The governor of São Paulo, Tarcisio de Freitas (Republicans), spoke for the first time about the corruption case surrounding businessman Sidney de Oliveira, owner of Ultrafarma, and the State Finance Secretariat, on Friday, 15. According to Tarcísio, those involved will be punished “strictly”.

In conversation with journalists after an event in Sorocaba (SP), Tarcísio said that when he took over the government, he found a “still analog” and “lacking digitization” state. About those involved in the scheme, Tarcisio said there was no central HR organ or a controllership general, and that his management is promoting changes with technology investments.

“This specific fraud began in 2021, but there have been cases since 2015. Now, it is to redesign processes, invest in technology, rigorously punish those involved – in the administrative, civil and criminal sphere – and go after the assets of those who damaged the state,” said the governor. “They will feel the heavy hand of the state … tramp has to be treated rigorously, and that’s what will happen.”

Businessman Sidney de Oliveira was temporarily arrested on August 12 after the outbreak of Operation Icarus of the São Paulo Public Prosecution Service (MP-SP). The lawsuit investigates a corruption scheme involving tax auditors of the São Paulo State Treasury Secretariat (Sefaz-SP), which would have received more than $ 1 billion in bribes to favor companies in the retail sector.

In addition to Sidney, the executive was the executive Mário Otávio Gomes, statutory director of Fast Shop, a network specializing in appliances and electronics, and the tax auditor Artur Gomes da Silva Neto, from Sefaz-SP. Secretary Samuel Kinoshita was restricted to quoting a sentence from former US-Corted Supreme Minister between 1916 and 1939, Louis Brandeis in the X ever since. “Transparency is correctly praised as a medicine for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light, the most efficient policeman,” he wrote.