Investigated by the Ethics Commission, number 2 of the Ministry of Mines and Energy leaves the government

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Efrain Cruz is investigated for ‘alleged ethical deviations’ during his tenure as director at Aneel. The new executive secretary will be Arthur Cerqueira, current legal advisor in the department. Efrain Cruz, former director of Aneel, in image from 2018 Pedro França/Agência Senado The executive secretary of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Efrain Cruz, was dismissed from his position this Thursday (11). He will be replaced by Arthur Cerqueira Valerio, who was a legal advisor at the department. The position of executive secretary is the second highest in the ministry – subordinate only to the Minister of Mines and Energy himself. In the absence of Alexandre Silveira, for example, it is the executive secretary who is responsible for the ministry. Efrain is being investigated by the Ethics Commission of the Presidency of the Republic for “alleged ethical deviations resulting from a possible lack of transparency and inaccuracies in the public agenda”, when he was director of the National Electric Energy Agency (Aneel). The investigation was opened in October. The former executive secretary was appointed in March 2023 — almost three months after the start of his term. He is linked to senators Marcos Rogério (PL-RO) and Davi Alcolumbre (União-AP). Cruz was not the first alternative for minister Alexandre Silveira, who wanted to nominate the secretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure in the administration of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), Bruno Eustáquio. The name, however, faced resistance in the Planalto. To g1, interlocutors claim that the relationship between Efraim and Silveira, which was no longer close, has deteriorated in recent months. Cerqueira, who takes over as secretary, is considered closer to the minister. New executive secretary The new executive secretary is a Union lawyer. He worked at the Ministry of Transport during the PT administrations of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, from 2006 to 2015. Afterwards, he worked at the Union Attorney General’s Office and ministries of Cities and Science and Technology. Since March 2023, he has worked as a legal consultant for the Ministry of Mines and Energy.

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