Serious problem to HRT in the SolimõesAnother serious problem to throw cold water on the future prospects of HRT in the Solimões, is their main partner to gas monetization, the Petrobras.
TCU says that the work of the Coari-Manaus gas pipeline, Petrobras, "had collection of fraud and overbilling"
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The construction of the Urucu (Coari) -Manaus, started in 2006 in a joint venture led by the OAS (one of the companies had arrested executives), was the first great work of Petrobras following the script laxity in control which resulted in deviations billionaires now discovered in the operation Lava jet. So says matter of "Folha de São Paulo". This script, the newspaper said, has long been known: overbillings, falsification of documents, additives outlaw, issued warnings, fines, resources, absolution and, ultimately, no one punished.
According to the "Leaf", between 2007 and 2008, the Federal Audit Court began investigations in dozens of pipeline construction contracts of about 400 km that would take gas from Urucu to Manaus region, thus reducing dependence on energy the capital of Amazonas. When I was a project, the estimate was spending $ 1.2 billion in the work. "It was cleared by the TCU 26 serious irregularities in contracts, which were under the responsibility of the former head of the company's services, Renato Duque, in jail since day 14. The suspicions were overpricing of forged documents," the matter of the newspaper .
The TCU determined that procurement officers and additives such works were identified, in a process that is not over yet and whose justifications are being analyzed. But the work is already complete: delayed three years and cost $ 4.5 billion, almost four times than planned. And, it is now known, were paid at least US $ 15 million bribe in exchange for contracts obtained with Petrobras.
Coari-Manaus pipeline work was collection of fraud, says TCU
Court of Auditors of the Union found 26 serious irregularities in contracts of work in the AM, according to the Folha de S. Paulo
Monday, November 24, 2014 - 7:00 AM
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Coari-Manaus is 400 kilometers long and cost $ 4.5 billion, almost four times than planned.
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Manaus - overbillings, falsification of documents, additives outlaw, issued warnings, fines, resources, absolution and, ultimately, no one punished. The construction of the Urucu (Coari) -Manaus, started in 2006 in a joint venture led by the OAS, was the first great work of Petrobras following the script laxity in control which resulted in deviations billionaires now discovered in the operation Lava -she is a Jet nine in who is appointed embezzlement of state. Information provided by Folha de S. Paulo.
Between 2007 and 2008, the Court of Audit (TCU) launched investigations in dozens of pipeline construction contracts of about 400 km that would take gas from Urucu to Manaus region, thus reducing dependence on energy capital of Amazonas.
When I was a project, the estimate was spending $ 1.2 billion in the work.
Were cleared by the TCU 26 serious irregularities in contracts, which were under the responsibility of the former head of the company's services, Renato Duque, in jail since day 14. The suspicions were overpricing of falsifying documents.
Neither the state nor the contractor commented on the case until the completion of this report. The cause of all the problems was simple: Petrobras began to work with incipient projects, even though a building with miles of excavation in the middle of the Amazon rainforest.
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The rent an ambulance, for example, went for $ 800,000. Should not cost more than £ 54,000. To justify a bidding process, appeared documents with different signatures of the same people. At the time of calculation of the deviations, the contracts already totaled R $ 2.2 billion. The engineer Petrobras Gésio Rangel de Andrade refused to sign the additives to increase their value by considering them illegal and denounced those who considered wrong for the company.
According to his wife told Leaf, Andrade eventually punished by the company and left the work in 2007. The head of Gésio was Renato Duque.
In 2007, a committee of ten members visited the works for an inspection. Found nothing irregular and the final report is full of praise to the enterprise. Among the lawmakers who participated in the visit at the time was Ciro Nogueira (PP) today, Senator Piauí and president of his party.
PP is one of the legends accused to benefit from shifts in Petrobras, next to the PT and the PMDB. For these irregularities, TCU asked for explanations to 12 people. In the end, only three were fined £ 5000 each. It was also determined that Petrobras retained amounts paid more in the pipeline of work contracts.
Another measure was the opening of a separate process to determine the overpricing in one of the construction contracts, with the Amazonas Gas Consortium (OAS contractor was the leader).
Initially, Petrobras would pay US $ 666.7 million for this portion of the work, which eventually getting additives which led to a total of £ 1.23 billion.
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Companies and fined three in the first case of TCU filed resources and all punishments were canceled, including the withholding of resources. Already the Amazonas Gas process has an unusual decision of the technical TCU own.
Even investigating a 10% overprice in the investigated contract items and is prohibited by law additives above 25% of the value of the work (in this case was 85%), the recommendation was to close the case because there are no irregularities.
The plenary TCU ended up having different understanding. Determined that were identified procurement officers and additives to justify their decisions. This process is not over and the justifications are being analyzed by the inspection agency. But the work is already complete: delayed three years and cost $ 4.5 billion, almost four times than planned. And, it is now known, were paid at least US $ 15 million bribe in exchange for contracts obtained with the state.
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