It is false that the PF seized boxes of medicines containing billions of dollars linking Cuba to the PT

What they are sharing: that the Federal Police seized 60 medicine chests containing billions of dollars in the Port of Santos, money from Brazil that goes to Cuba through the Mais Médicos program and returns to the country to finance the PT’s armed guerrilla.

Estadão Verifica investigated and concluded that: it’s fake. The video is old, has been circulating on the web since at least 2018 and shows assets located in Accra, the capital of Ghana. The money was linked to the embezzlement of millions of dollars after the death of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. The Red Cross said the organization’s logo was misused on the boxes that appear in the images. There is no news of an operation like the one shown in the video carried out by the Federal Police in Brazil, nor of a seizure of this type in the Port of Santos.

Know more: This is not the first time that cash boxes have been the target of misinformation. The matter has already spread in the past in Brazil, Ukraine, Syria and Spain. This time, the video began to circulate in the country with a serious accusation and without any proof: that the money went to Cuba through the Mais Médicos program and returned to Brazil to finance an “armed PT guerrilla”.

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A photograph showing the metal boxes with the logo of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) appears in a report sent by experts to the United Nations (UN) Security Council in June 2017. The Cross Red said the emblem was used improperly.

As reported by the Panel of Experts on Libya to the UN Security Council, the boxes were kept on the premises of a supposed international human rights organization called Le Comité International pour la Protection des Droits de l’Homme (CIPDH).

In theory, the organization was based in France. The European country, as well as the Ghanaian police, were contacted by the Panel of Experts on Libya, but did not respond until the report was sent to the Security Council. The document dealt with several issues, including the disappearance of millions of dollars from Libya after the death of dictator Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

Part of the money, according to the report, was in metal boxes in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Another part would be in boxes with the emblem of the International Committee of the Red Cross, in Ghana.

Red Cross denies involvement with money

In a January 2018 statement, the International Committee of the Red Cross said the video had been appearing periodically on social media for two years and that the emblem on the boxes had been misused. “The ICRC has absolutely nothing to do with the storage or transport of money alleged in this video and we strongly condemn the misuse of our name and logo in this way,” the statement reads.

The Committee treated the misuse as “a dangerous abuse of the name of the ICRC and of the specific meaning and purpose of the Red Cross emblem, which is the visible sign of the protection afforded by the Geneva Conventions to victims of armed conflict.”