
Investigation investigates criminal organization involved in corruption and fraud in urban cleaning tenders in municipalities of Minas Gerais and São Paulo, with an estimated loss of R$4 million in São Gonçalo do Sapucaí.
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Investigations began in 2023 by the Public Ministry of São Paulo focusing on irregularities in urban cleaning services.
The measures are part of an investigation that investigates the activities of a criminal organization involved in corruption crimes, bid fraud and irregularities in public contracts related to urban cleaning services in municipalities in Minas Gerais and São Paulo.
According to the investigations, which began in 2023 following an investigation conducted by the Public Ministry of the State of São Paulo, a business group in the urban cleaning sector had offered undue advantages to municipal public agents to obtain benefits in contracting solid waste collection services, transportation and final disposal of waste in landfills, in addition to truck rental.
The investigations also point to signs of overpricing of contracts signed after hiring. According to the MPMG, only in relation to the contracts analyzed in the municipality of São Gonçalo do Sapucaí, the estimated loss to public coffers between December 2021 and April 2026 is approximately R$4 million.
The action was carried out through the Public Prosecutor's Office Specializing in Actions of Original Criminal Competence, the 5th Public Prosecutor's Office of Pouso Alegre, the Regional Coordination for the Defense of Public Heritage of the South of Minas and the Special Action Group to Combat Organized Crime (Gaeco) of Pouso Alegre, and had the support of the Military Police of Minas Gerais and the Civil Police of Minas Gerais.
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