PF quotes Gusttavo Lima in an investigation that investigates CCP money laundering

After identifying an international drug trafficking network from the Capital First Command (CCP) with the Italian Mafia, Operation Mafiusi Mira now suspicious money laundering operations. Based on information from a whistleblower, the Federal Police tracked financial movements.

In a tangle of transactions of great value that have been traveled through the banking system in accounts of legal entities used by the faction, the names of country singer Gusttavo Lima, Pastor Valdemiro Santiago and bicheiro Adilson Oliveira Coutinho were appeared.

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According to reports from the PF to which the Estadão He had access, they would have made transactions with suspects and accused of integrating a “parallel financial system” of organized crime. The PF did not include them in the list of indicted, but all should be called to testify.

Gusttavo Lima is quoted to be a candidate for deputy in a possible plate headed by the governor of Goiás, Ronaldo Caiado (União Brasil), who on April 4 will launch himself as a presidential candidate in 2026-he said that the country singer will participate in the event in Salvador (BA).

Sought, the singer denied irregularities and said that the transaction cited in the investigation refers to the legal purchase of an aircraft. Valdemiro Santiago, who is from the World Church of the Power of God, and Adilson Filho, Adilsinho, patron of Rio’s Salgueiro School, did not respond to the report.

One of the accused in the operation, businessman Willian Barile Agati, the “CCP Concierge”, is appointed as responsible for maintaining the faction millionaire financial transactions network. He has been in prison since January. Criminalist Eduardo Maurício, who represents Agati, said his client is “innocent.” “He is a suitable and legitimate, primary and good background entrepreneur, a family father, who acts on various branches of lawful, national and international businesses, always with ethics and following current laws,” said the defender.

Operation Mafiusi is under protection of the 13th Federal Criminal Court of Curitiba, the same one that housed Operation Lava Jato, an investigation that dismantled corruption scheme installed at Petrobras. Like Lava Jato, Mafiusi was turbocharged by information from a whistleblower: Marco José de Oliveira.

Report

In his latest report sent to court, Deputy Eduardo Verza, from the PF of Paraná Special Investigations (GISE) group (GISE), said that “thorough analysis of financial transactions, companies and individuals involved in the case of Willian Agati reveals the existence of a criminal organization with national and international branches”.

According to the delegate, the “modus operandi of this organization uses sophisticated techniques for stratification of facade companies and individuals to hide the illicit origin of resources and make it difficult to track illicit activities”. Also according to Verza, companies credit values ​​of different branches of commerce and industry and do the same with debts to hide illegal operations. The delegate also pointed out that, in this system, individuals and legal entities “lend” current accounts for trafficking in exchange for the business.

Firms

The network companies awarded by PF Agati are located in several cities. According to the report, the economic activities of these firms range from the retail trade of clothing and accessories to office services and administrative support. The PF indicated two main companies in the case under investigation, the Starway Rental of vehicles and Starway MultiMarcas, which together moved R $ 454.3 million from 2020 to 2023. For the PF, there is evidence of façade. Both are in São Caetano do Sul, in Greater São Paulo.

Checking Starway’s accounts, the PF arrived at businesswoman Maribel Golin. It was at this point of the investigation, about businesses maintained by the businesswoman, that the police found the names of Gusttavo Lima, Valdemiro Santiago and Adilsinho.

Maribel is a legal representative of Aeroplan Aviation Ltda. and four other companies. To PF, she said that the group’s financial movement originates from the commercialization of real estate and aircraft. “It is crucial to emphasize that Maribel Golin maintains a close relationship with Willian Agati,” said the PF delegate. For him, the circumstances “suggest the occurrence of classical money laundering, related to real estate.”

From 2020 to 2022, the bank movements of Maribel and his companies totaled R $ 1.426 billion. “According to calculations, the declared revenue sources represent only 3.44% of the total busy amount,” said the delegate Verza.

Transactions

Verza analyzed origins and destinations of the financial movements of the 35 largest legal and physical persons related to Maribel companies. In the 6th place on the list is Ballad Eventos e Produções Ltda., With transfers of R $ 57.5 million for JBT Empreendimentos, one of the firms of the businesswoman. Transfers began on June 24, 2022.

Ballad Events has two partners: NR Empreendimentos, whose owner is Gusttavo Lima, and the singer himself. The PF found that there are seven companies registered at the same address as Ballad Events. “When consulting the notary systems and other similar systems, no public deeds were identified, documents involving trade relations or invoices related to the amounts passed on between the companies mentioned,” says the PF. “It is evident that the observed financial flow does not match the usual standard of transactions involving fee payments or similar activities.”

The feds also arrived in Maribel through the denunciation of Marco José de Oliveira. The employee reported that a relative of the businesswoman “warms” money within the Church of Valdemiro. According to Oliveira, Agati assumed the possession of planes of the pastor, as he “owed the tax authorities a lot”. “The amount involved in the mentioned transactions totals R $ 24,656,085.94,” said the delegate.

The last two companies in the ranking of Maribel’s 35 largest partners are Adiloc Comercial Distribuidora and his partner, Adilsinho. According to PF, the businesswoman received $ 9 million of both. Adiloc operates with the name Fantasia Adiloc Cigarette Distributor, but, the delegate said, the main economic activity register is related to “Combined Office Services and Administrative Support”.

Singer says he has acquired aircraft legally and denies irregularities

In a statement, Ballad Eventos reported that it is the company that manages the artistic career of singer Gusttavo Lima and, in this condition, “acquired an aircraft from the company JBT Empreendimentos e Participações Eireli, through its legal representatives (Golin family), in June 2022”.

“This was the only negotiation between Ballad Eventos and the company JBT. The operation occurred legally, with a formal purchase and sale contract, duly registered with the National Civil Aviation Agency (Anac), ”said the company.

Ballad Eventos denied meeting businessman Willian Barile Agati, “such information should be requested with the Golin family.” Regarding the fact that there are several companies registered at the same address, he said that it was a commercial building. “Each company occupies a room. The information is that there are seven companies at the same address. ”

Lawyer Carlos Alberto Pires, who represents Maribel Golin and JBT, stated that the businesswoman “doesn’t have and never had a ‘close relationship’ with Willian Barile Agati” and that the relationship with him “was just commercial”.

He also stated that the court of Curitiba “has already recognized the lawfulness of legal business celebrated with Willian Agati” and that “JBT is a strange/alien part of the facts investigated by the Federal Police.” “All banking movements of the company and its legal representative have and have always had lawful origin.”

The others mentioned did not speak.