The Federal Police are investigating a criminal organization suspected of embezzling more than R$670,000 in public resources from the Health Department of Vitória da Conquista, in the southwest of Bahia, this Thursday (25). The crime would have occurred during the Covid-19 pandemic, through overpricing in bidding processes for the acquisition of tests. No one was arrested.
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18 search and seizure warrants and nine precautionary measures other than prison were executed – when the rights of the person being investigated are restricted, but he remains free. Furthermore, R$2 million was blocked from the accounts and assets of the main people under investigation, whose names were not disclosed.
In addition to Vitória da Conquista, the warrants are served in Belo Horizonte and Nova Lima, both cities in Minas Gerais.
According to the Federal Police, the complaint was presented by the Vitória da Conquista prosecutor’s office in 2022 and investigations showed that there were two bidding processes with signs of fraud. Together, they reached R$2,030,000, with proof of price overpricing and losses of at least R$677,900.
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