Source: Minaspetro - Belo Horizonte / MG - 20/10/2010

The Coordination for Combating Tax Evasion (Coesf), of the State Prosecutor's Office, today denounced to Justice 59 individuals and companies, accused of tax crimes and tax corruption. Together, they would have withheld R $ 112,526 million in ICMS in the period from 2005 to 2009. The complaints are part of the National Operation to Combat Tax Evasion, which takes place today across the country.

Appointed as head of a gang that worked at the State Finance Secretariat, former income inspector Francisco Roberto da Cunha Gomes, known as “Chico Olho de Boi”, now appears in 27 more complaints. In October 2009, together with five businessmen, he had already been denounced for connection with the scheme of corruption and tax evasion investigated by Operation Propina S / A. In this case, the charge is illicit payments made by companies to ensure that they would not be fined for ICMS debts or that their fines would be reduced. In February this year, Governor Sérgio Cabral issued a decree dismissing “Chico Olho de Boi”.

In the new MP complaint, the main sector accused is the fuel distribution area. Three companies would have evaded about R $ 100 million. The main one, based in Duque de Caxias, is the target of four complaints. In the period between May 2008, 2009 and March 18, 2006 alone, the company would have failed to collect R $ 2007 million. Tax assessments for 13 and 11 amount to R $ 12 million. On June 1,55 and 1, tax evasion would amount to R $ 2005 million. The same distributor would also have caused a loss of R $ 2006 million between September XNUMX and March XNUMX.

Also headquartered in Duque de Caxias, the other distributor denounced owes R $ 1,3 million of ICMS to the state, for the period 2008 and 2009. The third distributor operates in Piratininga, Niterói. According to the MP, the company would have evaded about R $ 1,3 million, between December 2007 and March 2008.