The investigation conducted by the São Paulo Civil Police who indicated the president of Corinthians, on Thursday (22), for the crimes of criminal association, qualified theft and money laundering, TABMM points to the manager’s confidence abuse .
According to the delegate Tiago Fernando Correia, Augusto Melo and the former leaders involved in the case ‘Vaidebet’, Marcelo Mariano and Sérgio Moura, took advantage of the club to divert resources from the sponsor.
“There was, from Augustus, Marcelo and Sérgio, clear abuse of trust. What confidence? The confidence in them deposited not only by those who elected them, but especially for the club, from whom they took advantage,” says the inquiry.
Another excerpt points out that the deviation method using the Master sponsor of Corinthians facilitated the deviation “They took advantage of using a device that considerably facilitated the subtraction.”
Also according to the investigation, the purpose was actually the deviation of 36 installments of 700 thousand reais, but the contract with the company was broken before.
Impeachment
Augusto Melo’s impeachment vote is already scheduled. The meeting of the Corinthians Deliberative Council will take place on May 26.
On January 20, the Corinthians council gathered at Parque São Jorge to vote on the impeachment of Augusto Melo. After more than four hours, the meeting was suspended after the rite admissibility process passed 126 to 114.
Understand the case
Corinthians would have passed, through commission, two shipments of R $ 700 thousand, in March 2024 to the social network Media Design, a company of Alex Cassundé, also indicted.
After that, the company of Cassundé made two transfers to Neoway Integrated Solutions, a company that has as partner Edna Oliveira dos Santos, a woman who lives in Peruíbe, on the coast of São Paulo, and said in an interview with UOL, unaware of the case. The values were R $ 580 thousand and R $ 462 thousand, mentioned above.
Still in March last year, Neoway transferred about $ 1 million to Wave Technological Intermediações, which made three more transfers to UJ Football Talent Intermediação, at $ 870,000. The UJ was cited by Gritzbach, in a report made with prosecutors, as an orange account used by the first command of the capital (CCP).
Otherwise
Sought by CNN the president of Corinthians defended himself by note. “The defense of President Augusto Melo received with unbelief and indignation the final report of the investigation, released on Wednesday (22), and informs that he will make his official considerations as soon as he concludes the full analysis of the document,” says the defense.
The Corinthian representative summoned a press conference this Friday at the club’s CT.
This content was originally published in Corinthians: Delegate cites Augusto Melo’s “Abuse of Confidence” on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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