This Tuesday’s (08/18) session of Petrobras’ CPI heard depositions made by the National Petroleum Association (ANP) general director, Haroldo Lima, and by the ANP’s director for Natural Gas and Biofuels, Vitor de Souza Martins. ANP proxy, Tiago de Monte Macedo, and Attorneys General Ana Carolina Rezende de Azevedo Maia and José Robalinho Cavalcanti, the superintendent for Government Take, José Gutman, and NPA director Nelson Narciso Filho, were also heard.
The senators rejected, in block, the 66 petitions that were still pending deliberation. The rejection was proposed by speaker senator Romero Jucá (PMDB-RR), and the move was only opposed by senator Antonio Carlos Junior (DEM-BA). Petitions 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 to 13, 14 to 19, 28, 33, 34 to 42, 44, 45 to 48, 49 to 51, 54 to 61, 63 to 67, 68 to 73, 74 to 78, 80 to 83, and 86 to 87 were rejected.
The speaker then put two petitions up for voting with favorable opinions, both of which were also approved in block by the plenary sitting. Petitions 137 and 138, which invite Project Implementation manager, Glauco Legatti, and Petrobras’ Cost Engineering Manager, Sergio Santos Arantes, to appear, were approved. Both will provide clarifications regarding the Pernambuco Refinery (Abreu e Lima).
CPI chair, João Pedro, closed the session after six hours of discussions. The next session will be held on Tuesday (08/25) and focus on Petrobras and on the Pernambuco Refinery (Abreu e Lima) construction work.
Deposition by Lina Vieira
Former Internal Revenue Service secretary, Lina Vieira, made a deposition this Tuesday (08/18) at the Senate’s Constitution, Justice and Citizenship Commission (CJCC). She refused to speak about the change Petrobras made in its tax system to compensate for exchange variations, since this was not the purpose of her deposition, she said.
Lina emphasized that the current Internal Revenue Service secretary, Otacílio Cartaxo, would be able to provide all answers regarding all of the institution’s acts. Cartaxo has already answered questions during a deposition made to Petrobras’ CPI on August 11, on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service and of the Brazilian government. On that occasion, he stated that neither the Brazilian Tax Code nor the Internal Revenue Service’s normative instructions determine when companies can opt for one or the other exchange variation calculation system, whether cash or accrual.
The secretary also confirmed that no company has been fined for changing their tax collection system and clarified that paying taxes using tax credits does not imply in losses for the Union, states and municipalities. Before taking over as the Internal Revenue Service secretary, Cartaxo had been the adjunct secretary for Lina Vieira.
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