According to judge Heitor Moura Gomes, of the 2nd Federal Court of Marabá (PA), who ordered the arrest of Eurípedes Júnior, president of Pros, corruption investigations pointed to evidence of a deviation in the order of R$ 2 million for the purchase of the aircraft registration PT-VQW, model Seneca lll, for its own use.
The judge pointed out that some contracts from the Municipality of Marabá for the purchase of medicinal gases for hospitals, would have had a diversion of funds, allowing the plane to be purchased. For this, Eurípedes may have counted on the help of two other people, with the purpose of ing the plane as the property of PROS, the party of which Eurípedes is president. The aircraft was purchased by Josimar Enéas da Costa for João Salame.
“The investigation basically tries to determine the trail of federal public funds that would be used for the purchase of medicinal gases, as well as the amounts used to buy the PT-VQW aircraft and R$ 100 transferred from Oxipar s (moved by Josimar Eneas da Costa) to Emmanuelly Gomes Mendes and other people, noting that the companies Oxipar and WJE between 2013 and 2016 received more than R$ 10 million from the Marabá/PA city hall, amounts referring to federal public funds”. "Notwithstanding this, the analysis of the path of public funds and recipients would be carried out even if they did not involve federal public funds and which must be determined by the competent municipal and state authorities", said the judge in the lawsuit.
The diversion was made through the renegotiation of the city hall's debt with the companies, in which the city hall was in charge of proposing a kind of “kickback” for the payment to be made.
In a note, the party said that the aircraft has already been sold.
