The Federal Audit Office (TCU) found that prosecutors who worked on Operation Car Wash are required to return the subsistence allowances and travel expenses they received while serving on the task force investigating anomalies at Petrobras.
Judge Bruno Dantas, Rapporteur for Special Accounts, concluded that adopting a “beneficial and profitable” model for the Task Force members would damage the treasury and violate the principle of impersonality.
The court came to this conclusion on the basis of the task force model, in which the prosecutors did not move to Curitiba and therefore received daily allowances for each trip to the capital of Paraná.
Judge Bruno Dantas accepted the arguments, stating that the Task Force’s operating model with the constant transfer of lawyers to Curitiba “did not represent the lowest possible cost to Brazilian society. Analysis of interesting alternatives from the point of view of the state.”
Five lawyers have to return the money: Antonio Carlos Welter, Carlos Fernando dos Santos Lima, Diogo Castor de Mattos, Januário Paludo and Orlando Martello Junior.
Deltan Dallagnol, who coordinated the Curitiba task force, is being asked to collectively return resources to the public coffers for allegedly creating the legal group’s working model of the operation.
Translated by Kiratiana Freelon
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