Refit Operation Poço de Lobato by the Federal Police and Federal Revenue Service

 

Refit Operation Poço de Lobato by the Federal Police and Federal Revenue Service

Mega-operation against tax fraud - Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Thursday (26) that organized crime is sending funds to companies opened in the United States for the purpose of money laundering. And he asked that the matter be discussed with the US government.

He made the statements at the Ministry of Finance's entrance in reference to the Federal Police operation this morning against the Refit Group.

“We want to discuss organized crime with the United States. They are opening companies in Delaware (USA). They make loans to these funds, which the tax authorities suspect will never be repaid, and the money returns in the form of investments in Brazil, as if it were a direct foreign investment,” Haddad told reporters.

The minister described this type of operation as a “very serious international triangulation.”

"The last operation was for R$ 1.2 billion. Done simulating a foreign investment, the money left here and is returning to these funds," he added.

Haddad spoke of "opening a working front with the US government to inhibit money laundering using tax havens there."

➡️According to Minister Haddad, the Federal Revenue Service also identified arms smuggling originating from the United States and requested the creation of a working group with the US government to inhibit the entry of illegal weapons into Brazil.

👉 Led by businessman Ricardo Magro, the Refit group is considered the largest debtor of ICMS (Tax on the Circulation of Goods and Services) in the state of São Paulo, the second largest in Rio de Janeiro, and one of the largest in the federal government.

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