Petrobras created a front company to build pipeline billionaire Audit pointed out that work was overpriced costs by more than 1,800% BY VINICIUS Sassine 01.04.2015 7:00 / 7:40 UPDATED 04/01/2015 ADVERTISING Brasília Petrobras created paper companies to build and operate the network Gasene pipeline, as confirmation of the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) played a confidential audit of the Court of Audit (TCU). The development of stretch that is in Bahia - and, according to experts from the court, had inflated costs by more than 1,800% - was inaugurated with pomp on March 26, 2010 by the federal government. Eight days later, the then Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff, left the government to apply to the Presidency. It was the opening party in Itabuna (BA) with then President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the president of Petrobras at the time, Jose Sergio Gabrielli, and the then director of Gas and Energy of the state, Thanks Foster, current president of the company . SEE ALSO Crisis in Petrobras prevents thermal plant and threatens concession to explore gas reserves in the AM Braga takes Mines and Energy and fold improvement in Petrobras management Petrobras and corruption in Rousseffs possession of vocabulary We must defend Petrobras internal predators and their external enemies, says Dilma TCU auditors found that ANP authorized the construction and operation of the pipeline without examining the documents of the companies and without evaluating whether the project was adequate. The regulatory agency asked for a copy operation and maintenance contract stretch between Cacimbas (ES) and Catu (BA) on March 4, 2010, as craft attached to the lawsuit pending in the ANP. There was no examination of the contract, repeating the mere checklist promoted in the authorization phase for the construction, wrote the auditors. Three weeks later, Lula and Dilma inaugurated the stretch, now in operation. Documents reveal how companies created for the construction of the pipeline network - a financial engineering to give private enterprise aspect of the business - had facade features. A contract for services was signed in May 2005 between the Gasene Carrier SA, formed by Petrobras to touch the works, and the Advisors Domain Ltda., An accounting office in Rio. The two companies appear in the contract with the same address : São Bento Street, on the fifth floor of a building in the center. The contract itself states that the accounting firm agreed to provide an address to the contractor to house its headquarters. The document says that the owner of the domain, Antonio Carlos Pinto de Azeredo, undertook to hold the office of president of Gasene Carrier, function occupied between 2005 and 2011. In a report published by GLOBE on December 24, Azeredo said it was just a servant or agent Petrobras in office, with the exercise of a purely symbolic function. The fact that there is an orange in front of the company, responsible for investments of R $ 6.3 billion, corroborates the front aspect of the project - a special purpose entity (SPE) with private capital, administered by a Chinese company contracted without bidding and with proven public spending, according to the audit. The ANP considered that firms carriers created in this financial arrangement would be just paper companies found the TCU technicians in the audit report. Petrobras subsidiary responsible for operating the pipeline networks is Transpetro, which signed to Gasene. The interpretation of the ANP on the project facade aspect is shared by the TCU auditors. In the whole chain who sets the designs is Petrobras. Thus, it asserts that the contract for operation and maintenance with Transpetro and the other performed only aimed to formalize the relationship of subordination between societies, to give contours legal and apparent normality to the whole financial structure that was developed, cites the audit, which will be voted on, but it has been sent to the prosecutors responsible for the Lava-jet operation to be incorporated into the corruption investigations in the state. ADVERTISING Even scoring the existence of paper companies, ANP abdicated the assignment to do a technical analysis of the project as completion of inspection done in three agency processes related to the Gasene - with application for authorization of the construction of a stretch, with other public utility decree statement for the pipeline and a third on approval of reference projects. In terms of technical analysis of the ANP, the inspection found that she inexistiu, limited in authorization procedures for construction and operation, to check the delivery of the required documents, the auditors. It is noteworthy that a project of this magnitude in the order of R $ 3.78 billion (referring only to Cacimbas-Catu stretch), not critical evaluation of studies submitted by Petrobras for authorization for the construction, state . According to the audit, the ANP failed to assess the feasibility of billionaire project, although the share capital of the contractor was only $ 10,000, indicating that could treat yourself facade. The inauguration of the pipeline stretch in Itabuna, Bahia, was attended by graduates of the Lula government authorities. About 5000 people attended the exhibition park. Dilma spoke with references to the Growth Acceleration Program (PAC). The Gasene, despite the financial operation to set it to private enterprise, was included in the CAP and had 80% financing by BNDES. A Chinese company, Sinopec International Petroleum Service Corporation, was subcontracted without bidding, for $ 266.2 million, to manage the pipeline. - The CAP is not fiction, and the Gasene today proves it. We gave a racing show here - Dilma spoke. Rousseffs candidacy guarantor, elected in October of that year, Lula also spoke: - This work means one more step in the achievement of independence in Northeast Brazil. We are not taking anything away from any place in Brazil. Also present Gabrielli, who is from Bahia, and the state governor at the time, Jaques Wagner (PT), re-elected that year, and Thanks Foster and the president of Transpetro, Sergio Machado. Gabrielli responds to charges related to its management, such as the loss of $ 792 million in the purchase of the Pasadena refinery in Texas, and the overpricing in the construction of the refinery Abreu e Lima (PE). Wagner is the current defense minister and one of the leading directors of Dilma. Grace balance in office due to the crisis in Petrobras. And Machado, framed by informers of the state of the embezzlement scheme, he graduated from the post of president until yesterday. The Gasene was built by the Associated Gas Carrier (TAG), a subsidiary of Petrobras, in January 2012, with assets of R $ 6.3 billion. The three sites have already been completed: they are 130 km between Cacimbas and Vitória (ES); 303 km between Cabiúnas (RJ) and Victoria and 954 kilometers between Cacimbas and Catu. The audit TCU was made in the longer run. Besides overpricing, technical pointed illegal dismissal bidding, lack of basic design and payment without providing the service. The vote in the reserved meeting of 9 December was suspended due to request of view. The report points out as responsible for Gabrielli irregularities and the former president of Carrier Gasene Antonio Carlos Azeredo. Technical suggest fines to two. O Globo, Petrobras said it has already presented detailed explanations in TCUs audit procedures in Gasene and awaits its manifestation. The ANP said it will reach a decision only after the publication of TCUs judgment. The judgment is the final instrument by which the TCU is pronounced as supervisory body, the agency said. Read more about this inoglobo.globo/brasil/petrobras-criou-empresa-de-fachada-para-construir-gasoduto-bilionario-14961447#ixzz3NrDYCyZx © 1996 - 2015. All rights reserved Infoglobo Communication and Participações SA This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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