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A Rio law firm, accused of offering facilities to companies interested in hiding assets accumulated in slush fund, was the target of the Federal Police's Babilônia operation, on Tuesday (6/11). Eight people were arrested for being involved in a scheme of tax evasion, laundering and illegal remittance of money abroad and the creation of fraudulent companies. The PF estimates that more than US$30 million was withheld and moved by the gang in ten years. Lawyer Chaim Henoch Zalcberg, suspected of being the group's leader, is under arrest. The six-month investigation originated in the scandal known as Propinoduto, which revealed, in 2003, the illegal sending of US$33 million abroad by a group led by the former Rio state government inspector, Rodrigo Silveirinha. In that investigation, the PF identified suspicious financial transactions that were not assessed by the investigation.
Resuming in June, investigations showed that Zalcberg's office centralized the creation of shell companies to legalize and protect unaccounted resources from the tax authorities. Delegate Algacir Mikalovski, from the Financial Crimes Repression Police Station, explained that the Estonia Email List lawyers created a limited liability company in Brazil in the name of oranges. Then, they opened one or more companies in tax havens, called offshores. Through money changers or fraudulent operations, such as simulating loans abroad, they sent money from their clients' slush funds to offshore companies, which later became investors in fraudulent companies in Brazil. “The cash 2 money was returned to the country fraudulently.
Tax evasion, currency evasion and money laundering were carried out without prejudice to other crimes, such as ideological falsehood in the creation of shell companies, which is a way of shielding assets,” said Mikalovski, listing crimes with penalties set out among 10 and 15 years in prison. Only one of the addresses visited by the PF centralized 15 shell companies. The police will now identify the companies that used the lawyers' services. And there is already information that most of the shell companies' resources were invested in the real estate sector and may have financed entire projects in Rio.Idec — Brazilian Institute for Consumer Protection failed in its attempt to bring together Public Civil Actions in São Paulo against the charging of monthly subscription fees to fixed-line telephone users in the state.
Resuming in June, investigations showed that Zalcberg's office centralized the creation of shell companies to legalize and protect unaccounted resources from the tax authorities. Delegate Algacir Mikalovski, from the Financial Crimes Repression Police Station, explained that the Estonia Email List lawyers created a limited liability company in Brazil in the name of oranges. Then, they opened one or more companies in tax havens, called offshores. Through money changers or fraudulent operations, such as simulating loans abroad, they sent money from their clients' slush funds to offshore companies, which later became investors in fraudulent companies in Brazil. “The cash 2 money was returned to the country fraudulently.
Tax evasion, currency evasion and money laundering were carried out without prejudice to other crimes, such as ideological falsehood in the creation of shell companies, which is a way of shielding assets,” said Mikalovski, listing crimes with penalties set out among 10 and 15 years in prison. Only one of the addresses visited by the PF centralized 15 shell companies. The police will now identify the companies that used the lawyers' services. And there is already information that most of the shell companies' resources were invested in the real estate sector and may have financed entire projects in Rio.Idec — Brazilian Institute for Consumer Protection failed in its attempt to bring together Public Civil Actions in São Paulo against the charging of monthly subscription fees to fixed-line telephone users in the state.