Source: SPTV, Good Morning São Paulo, Antena Paulista (São Paulo - SP) - 16/05/2012

The company is being investigated for suspected tax evasion.

Group directors said they would assist the investigations.

Documents seized at Grupo Petrópolis brewery in Boituva (SP) should be analyzed by the Sorocaba Public Ministry and the Finance Department. The material was collected during Operation Czar to carry out search and seizure warrants at the distribution center and at the factory. With that, the unit stopped working and workers were dismissed.

The action mobilized agents from the São Paulo State Finance Department, the Public Ministry, the Civil Police and the Military Police, who spent the day collecting the documents and making copies of the computers' memories. The material can prove the fraud.

According to the prosecutor Welington Veloso, representative of Gaeco (Special Action Group for the Repression of Organized Crime), once these documents have been analyzed and the evasion is proven, the infraction notices must be drawn up. "From then on, there will be the establishment of an administrative proceeding and, only after the end of this administrative and fiscal proceeding, can the possible criminal liability of those involved be analyzed," he says.