Sanko Sider declared ineligible

March 20, 2018

The Ministry of Transparency and Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) said on Tuesday (20/3) the company Sanko Sider is ineligible to contract with the public administration. The decision is the eighth penalty applied to the companies investigated in Operation Lava Jato. The punishment prevents for at least two years participation in new bids and the execution of new contracts with organs and entities of all powers (Executive, Legislative and Judiciary) and all spheres of government (Municipal, State and Federal) .

The irregularity, according to the CGU, was characterized by the execution of financial transactions for the payment of bribes to public agents, as a result of an administrative agreement entered into with Petrobras. In November 2014, during a testimony at a Joint Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry (CPMI) investigating Petrobras, the managing director of Sanko-Sider, Marcio Andrade Bonilho, said that he hired the consulting firm Costa Global, from the former director of Supply of Petrobras Paulo Roberto Costa. According to the executive, he only met Costa two years after the director’s resignation in April 2012.

“This contract lasted four months, R$ 10,000 reais per month, and in the absence of business, we ended up closing the activities,” said Bonilho. According to him, the contract was for Costa to present Sanko as a possible representative in Brazil of companies based abroad.

The CGU established 29 administrative accountability processes (PARs) for the determination of irregularities. With the punishment of Sanko Sider, a total of nine companies have already been ruled out: Mendes Júnior, Skanska, Iesa Óleo & Gás, Jaraguá Equipamentos Industriais, GDK SA., Alumini Engenharia SA. and Tomé Engenharia SA, MPE Assemblies and Special Projects (MPE). Another four had the suits filed for lack of evidence: NM Engenharia, Egesa, Niplan and Construcap. Only UTC Engenharia signed a leniency agreement with the CGU. In the case of UTC, it was agreed to return more than R$ 574 million to the public coffers for damages caused to Petrobras, Eletrobras and Valec.