Marcelo Ribeiro de Souza also issued suppliers’ payments and got money
He was arrested on Wednesday (9) to take a sentence of 11 years and 4 months imprisonment in a closed regime, Marcelo Ribeiro de Souza, 50, “Shel”, deposited on his bank account, payments that should enter the municipality’s vault. According to the judgment, he practiced 51 times greater than the confusion, appropriation of public money.
Marcelo Ribeiro de Souza, a former Ivinhem town hall server, was sentenced to 11 years and 4 months in prison by 51 crimes of embezzlement and money laundering. He managed about 300,000 R $, depositing their personal accounts, which should go to the commune. The verdict was issued in June 2023, but waited in freedom to arrest on Wednesday (9). The case was examined by Gaeco and MP Mato Grosso to Sul. Marcelo partly confessed to crimes and is arrested in the Civil Police prison, waiting for the prison to be moved.
Municipal tax matters and tax director from July 2019 to December 2020 were accused of deviation of at least 800,000 R $, but he managed to prove the origin of half a million reais, and at the end of the trial he will have to return only 300,000 R $, in addition to paying a fine R 9.9 thousand r $.
According to criminal proceedings, which was processed in the 1st Court of Ivinhema, among the deviations are land payment sold by municipalities. Checks, issued in September 2019 and January 2020, were deposited on the personal account of Marcelo Souzy. As a tax and banks director, he had access to all city bank accounts.
The server account was also deposited by checks issued by the town hall for suppliers from July 2019 to October 2020.
“As a civil service official, Marcelo Ribeiro de Souza, he directed the amounts he had because of his position, for his own benefit, issuing check blades for the alleged payment of suppliers/service providers from the Ivinhem town hall, but without transferring the amounts, but rather depositing them on his personal account,” says excessive reference.
Opinion – The conviction signed by judge Rodrigo Barbos Sanches took place on June 12, 2023, but the previous server appealed and waited in freedom. Last week, after the judgment as final, the court issued an arrest order, met yesterday by the investigation section in the Civil Police.
Marcelo de Souza was arrested in October 2022 as part of the publication surgery, caused by GaECO (a special group on combating organized crime) after investigation conducted by prosecutor Mato Grosso to Sul. However, he was released a few months later to respond to the freedom process.
In addition to embezzlement (crimes committed by a civil official during appropriation of public or private money, goods or values), Marcelo de Souza was convicted of money laundering for using other people’s names to hide the assets acquired by means of redirected money.
“A disturbing moment” – According to the opinion, the server partly confessed to the Crime Commission, admitting that he had deposited the checks of the sale of land on his personal account. He also admitted that he made transfers from the city account in his name. According to the claim, he made 39 transfers from the city account to a personal account.
Marcelo denied, however, that he allocated the amounts to pay to suppliers, but confessed to depositing with a check of the supplier spent on payment, who said he found in the folder.
Report from the Research Center, Analysis, Dissemination and Information MP showed that Marcelo assigned his bank accounts of 43,390.36 from the checks of the city issued for the payment of suppliers.
He also denied that he had redirected $ 800,000, because he was initially accused, but admitted that he retired from $ 200,000 to $ 300,000 “at the restless moment of his life, claiming that he” regrets “the acts.
“It can be seen that from the Ivinhem town hall, the defendant effectively received the amount of 269 622.90 r $, being the rest of the loan received from other sources. I understand the erroneous automatic conclusion that the entire amount assigned to Marcelo’s accounts and that it was not reported to IRS in the period, from crisis.
Marcelo de Souza was sentenced to 8 years and 4 months imprisonment for 51 crimes for embezzlement and a 3 -year prison for money laundering. The former server is collected in a civil police prison and will be questioned on care at 14:30 on Thursday. Then it will be moved to the corrector system.
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