Renato Cariani negotiated chemicals with a man linked to drug trafficking, say PF sources

The investigation into the sale of chemical products between the company Anidrol Produtos para Laboratórios LTDA — which has influencer Renato Cariani and Roseli Dorth as managing partners — and shell companies, reveals the businessmen’s connection with a man identified as Fábio Spínola, arrested in a PF operation against international drug trafficking in May this year.

Sources linked to the investigation told CNN that Spínola is the intermediary who posed as Augusto Guerra, a false buyer of chemical products from the company AstraZeneca, who purchased several inputs from Cariani’s company. These inputs can be used to manufacture drugs.

Police officers say there is evidence that at least two other companies were used by people linked to the chemical diversion scheme, who negotiated and paid for Anidrol substances.

With regard to AstraZeneca, according to sources, after the Federal Revenue made a query about payments that had been made to Anidrol, an investigation into the misuse of the pharmaceutical company’s name was initiated.

The investigation showed that there were no negotiations between AstraZeneca and Anidrol, that there is no record of the purchase of part of the inputs in Brazil and that there is no employee named Augusto Guerra at the pharmaceutical company.

According to CNN showed in a report about the substances offered by Cariani to the fake seller, invoices were issued for payments made in cash deposits for inputs that can be used to manufacture drugs, such as crack. In a video published on his social networks, Renato Cariani said that the “very pure” substance he referred to is sold by the chemical industry.

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According to the investigation, Cariani was warned by authorities that the company he was selling chemicals to was not the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca.

In his own defense, he even showed email exchanges that contained the domain “@astrazeneca.com.br”. There is robust evidence, according to the PF, that the domain was purchased by the false representative of the pharmaceutical company. Even after the warnings, according to the Federal Police, Cariani’s company continued negotiating and receiving cash deposits.

What the police say about Cariani’s possible knowledge of the investigation, which progressed in the following months, is that even after being warned that he was dealing with a fake company, Anidrol issued at least ten more invoices related to the sale of chloride sodium, lidocaine hydrochloride and phenacetin hydrochloride.

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