Lula soiled hands in Petrobras
The purchase of the refinery in Pasadena, Texas, Petrobras is the big scandal that the PT had been drowning, but eventually came to the Court of Audit and with long odds of landing in Criminal Justice.
In early 2005 the refinery Pasadena Refining System, Pasadena, Texas, was acquired by Belgian company Astra Oil Company, the amount of U.S. $ 42.5 million and in September 2006 the Astra sold to Petrobras refinery by 50% of the payment of $ 360 million, ie half sold the refinery for more than eight times what they paid for the entire refinery, a year and a half before. It would not be surprising, therefore, that the Astra Oil Co. intended to sell the 50% who remained in their heritage. It happens that, by its nature ignore disagreements, Astra filed suit against Petrobras Petrobras and it would have been convicted and mercy of court settlement, the Astra paid $ 820 million, ending the dispute.
The strange business, which caused damage of at least $ 1 billion to the company and its shareholders, it was performed by people very close to Lula and the perspective of the scandal, has all the ingredients needed to overcome handily Mensalão PT. In the eye of the hurricane are Guido Mantega, Minister of Finance and current Chairman of the Board of Directors of Petrobras, José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, former president of the state oil company and currently secretary in the government Jaques Wagner, Almir Guilherme Barbassa, chief financial officer and president of Petrobras International Finance Co., a Pandora's box of the company; Nestor Cervero, chief financial officer of BR Distribuidora, and Alberto Feilhaber, Petrobras employee for two decades and a few years working in Astra Oil, one of the group companies which attracted Petrobras for the Pasadena refinery and then dropped the bomb in the hands of Brazilians.
Lula and Dilma broke Petrobras
The scandal takes shape larger and more dangerous because at the time of the deal, which could end up in court in New York at the request of international investors, the chairman of the Board of Directors of Petrobras was Dilma Rousseff, who positioned himself against the bill introduced by Joseph Sérgio Gabrielli, his rival, but by imposing Lula was obliged to accept the deal.
With a third of its value eroded in the last three years and facing serious cash flow problems, including the right to delay payment of suppliers, Petrobras has been scaring financial markets, whose analysts bet on a hole of several billion dollars in state. This crime in terms of corporate governance that the PT made in Petrobras is infinitely more harmful than the eventual privatization.
It turns out that no human being minimally logical and endowed with intelligence, about to be hoisted to leadership positions in a company like Petrobras, accepts a harmful business, such as buying the Texas refinery, without a diabolical plan behind.
The Federal Public Ministry (MPF) now focuses on the preamble of an action that investigate specific cases of overpricing of contracts signed by Petrobras during the administration of José Sérgio Gabrielli.
In the sight of the MPF are also other scandals involving Petrobras, as the Gemini, the company through which the Brazilian government passed not for free, the monopoly of production and marketing of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to a U.S. company.
MPF opens investigation into Pasadena refinery
The MPF says the fact that Petrobras has spent $ 1.18 billion
for the purchase of a refinery "reveals possible purchase overpriced
Petrobras shares "
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The FEDERAL PROSECUTOR (MPF) THE STATE OF RIO filed a CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURE TO CLARIFY THE PURCHASE OF POSSIBLE VIOLATIONS OF PASADENA REFINERY (TEXAS, USA) BY PETROBRAS. TALKING ON THE ORDER OF CURRENCIES AND POSSIBLE EVASION embezzlement, CLUE IN THE overpricing.
The current president of Petrobras, Graça Foster, was subpoenaed to testify. Also subpoenaed were leaders who were in charge of the company at the time the deal was done: the former president José Sergio Gabrielli, the former director of Supply Paulo Roberto Costa and former director of International Nestor Cervero.
The ordinance is signed by Attorney Orlando Monteiro da Cunha Espindola. The prosecutor also asked a series of documents to the company, including contracts with Odebrecht Engenharia Industrial, which include services in Pasadena. Petrobras has revised this year to almost half the contract closed the previous administration for $ 840 million.
Dilma was Chairman of Petrobras
Will be determined both according to Odebrecht as the acquisition of Pasadena by value above the market, two cases revealed by Broadcast, real-time service of the State Agency.
The MPF says the fact that Petrobras has spent $ 1.18 billion for the purchase of a refinery that eight years ago, it cost his former partner $ 42.5 million, "reveals possible purchase overpriced shares by Petrobras . "
And the content of the MPF representation offered this year by the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Audit reports "occurrence of facts capable of setting (possible) crime of tax evasion."
"If there was overpricing has to be clarified, as well as the reason," said Espindola to Broadcast. "In theory, leaders who participated may have benefited." Research can generate complaint to the Federal Court. Embezzlement is the crime that fits embezzlement by public officials. Tax evasion is a crime against the financial system, punishable by imprisonment.
Check below as the Pasadena refinery became a billionaire powder keg about to explode and scandal that surrounds the Abreu e Lima refinery in Pernambuco
Pasadena
Pasadena Refinery loss of 1.6 Billion to Petrobras
The purchase of an oil refinery in Pasadena, United States, considered obsolete and small by local standards, is the scandal of the time and has taken the sleep of many members of the PT dome, concerned with reverberation if advance investigations in the right direction, as shown by the Federal Public Ministry.
The untrained business began with the Belgian company Astra Oil buying the Pasadena Refining System for $ 42 million. One year on, the Belgians sold half of U.S. company Petrobras for $ 360 million.
Like any scandal PT always has a extra chapter, Petrobras was forced by the U.S. Justice after confusion scheduled to pay $ 839 million for a refinery unable to process the Brazilian oil. The state oil company tries unsuccessfully to get rid of the monkey created, not by chance, the former president of the company, PT José Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, who boasts in his curriculum a PhD in Economics from Boston University.
Lula and his protégé Sergio Grabielli
President Dilma Rousseff ejected Gabrielli command of the state, but since then have not touched on the subject, when it is remembered, causes discomfort and nervousness widespread on the third floor of the Presidential Palace.
So far, Petrobras received only one bid for the refinery in Pasadena: $ 180 million. Current company president Mary Grace Foster does not know what to do. If you accept a single proposal, put in box Petrobras already sacrificed a loss of just over $ 1 billion, but some macabre ensure that this account is only $ 1.6 billion.
Abreu e Lima
The case of the Pasadena refinery is considerable scorn, that requires explanation by Rousseff and Lula, but the most callous foot Petrobras is building the Abreu e Lima refinery in Pernambuco.
Announced by Lula with pyrotechnics official all know, the Abreu e Lima refinery should be built in partnership with Venezuelan tyrant Hugo Chavez and dying, which so far has not provided a penny in the venture. With Venezuela, which has 40% of the business, leaving to honor the commitment remains to the Brazilian government using taxpayer money for non-stop work.
With initial investment forecast at around U.S. $ 3 billion, the budget of Pernambuco refinery already jumped amazing and absurd $ 20 billion and could win, until the end of the project, an increase of over $ 10 billion.
As the announcement of the death of Hugo Chavez is a matter of time and will be done only when interest the Bolivarian who fight for power in Venezuela, the participation of the government in Caracas Pernambuco refinery becomes a flammable unknown. By the course of events in Caracas, the Brazilian government will have to shoulder the entire bill for the construction of the Abreu e Lima refinery. What will allow corruption to circulate freely in the rays of another stellar fanfare with the stamp of the Workers Party.
Sources: Journal examination / uncho.info / Revista Veja
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