Operation Curare, launched by the Federal Police on Friday (30), targeted 11 individuals and 10 companies.
According to the investigations, the scheme included the repeated emergency hiring of companies to provide services in the health field, in contravention of the Public Procurement Law.
Among those targeted are the mayors of the municipality Celio Rodriguez da Silva (Health) and Alexandre Pilotto Magalhães de Andrade (Interim Administration), as well as the former Secretary of the Civil House of the Administration Blairo Maggi, Antonio Cato.
Another person investigated is Cuiabá’s former health minister, Luis Antonio Bosas de Carvalho.
Cuiabana Public Health, LV Serviços Médicos e Hospitalares, the Brazilian Institute of Santa Catarina (Ibrasc), and Smallmed Serviços Médicos e Hospitalares were also targeted.
See below the list of targets posted by Folhamax:
Alexandre Pilotto Magalhães de Andrade – Assistant Municipal Secretary for Administrative Affairs
Antonio Cato – Former Chief of Staff of the Playero Maggi Department, coroner
Celio Rodriguez da Silva – Municipal Health Secretary
Douglas Castro – Owner of Douglas Castro Middle East
Douglas Castro Middle East – hired company by waiving R$4 million to rent ICU beds
Cuyabana Public Health Company
Felipe de Medeiros Costa Franco – Partner at Ultramed, Board Member of Cuiabana Public Health Company
Hellen Cristina da Silva – Civil servant who worked on bid quotations for Cuiabana Public Health Company
Hipermed Serviços Médicos e Hospitalares – The company contracted by waiving the bid for one million Brazilian reals to provide medical services in the wards
Hamad Medical Corporation in 2019
Ultramed – Medical and Hospital Services – partner company Felipe de Medeiros Costa Franco, part of the company’s board of directors
Cuyabana Public Health
Abrasc – Brazilian Institute of Santa Catarina
Luis Antonio Bosas de Carvalho – Former Minister of Municipal Health
Medical services and hospitals LV
Maicon dos Santos – Partner at Hipermed
Marcelo Pereira da Silva
Smallmed Medical and Hospital Services – the company that “taken” Ultramed . services
Mahajan Escobar Bueno Beltrao Cabral – Member of the Permanent Bidding Committee of Cuyabana Public Health
Miriam Flávia Caldeira Jamur – Partner at Hipermed
Paulo Roberto de Souza Jamor – owner of the Sole Proprietorship of Paulo Jamor Sociedad
Paolo Gamor Individual Law Society
Municipal Health Department
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