Janones asks advisors to transfer part of his salary to his account
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In a new audio released this Tuesday (28), federal deputy André Janones (Avante-MG) asks advisors to transfer part of his salary to his account as a way of creating a fund to fund electoral campaigns. Janones’ estimate was to raise R$200,000.
The audio is part of a series of reports obtained by the newspaper Metropolises with former advisors of the deputy. In the first audio released on Monday (27), Janones demands that his advisors return part of their salaries to cover campaign debts.
According to Janones, this is not a practice known as “rachadinha”, but a contribution from advisors so that he could recover part of his assets used to fund his campaign for mayor of Ituiutaba (MG), in 2016.
“As we are not going to be corrupt, we are not going to accept positions, as we are not going to give in to these things and we need money to campaign, what is my suggestion? And then we will divide the amount between us, including me. That is, everyone. And that’s cool. Sometimes you confuse this with paying back your salary. Returning a salary means you stay at your house and sleep, give me your card, every month I go there and collect it and leave just one salary for you. This is payback. Two thousand and twenty (election year) is here. I thought we would crowdfund among ourselves, and then we will decide if it will be R$50, if it will be R$100, R$200, if each one gives proportional to their salary. We will decide that between us. If everyone gives R$200 to my account, there will be more or less R$200,000 for us to spend on this campaign”, says Janones in the audio released this Tuesday.
The meeting with the advisors would have taken place inside the Chamber of Deputies, in the meeting room of Avante, Janones’ party. According to Metropolises, Janones did not know he was being recorded.
The parliamentarian arrived at the Chamber in 2018 after receiving more than 178 thousand votes from miners. In 2022, Janones was re-elected with almost 239 thousand votes.
In an interview with ICL News, on Monday night (27), Janones confirmed the veracity of the audios, but said that the content is “out of context”. The parliamentarian, who is also a lawyer, said that he does not see a crime in what he said, despite guaranteeing that he does not remember the conversation.
Janones also guaranteed that he would give up his confidentiality if any complaint was made and said that he was being blackmailed by the owner of the audios. According to the deputy, the former advisor had approached him to ask for a car in exchange for not disclosing the audios.
The deputy also stated that despite asking advisors to return part of his salary – paid with public money – he did not implement the practice. According to Janones, his deputy salary was enough to cover old debts.
During the interview, Janones repeated several times that he never took money from an employee, whether in person, by hand, or through a bank deposit.
When talking to the CNN BrazilCefas Luiz, former advisor to Janones, said that the practice of “rachadinha” was common in the parliamentarian’s office and that the person responsible for collecting the money would be the current mayor of Ituiutaba, in Minas Gerais, and former advisor to Janones, Leandra Guedes.
“Leandra Guedes was his girlfriend and advisor at the time and she was responsible for taking the employees’ crack money. Nothing was paid at the bank. It was in cash,” Luiz told CNN.
This Tuesday (28), after the release of the new audio, Janones said that “despite the headline and the biased text (from Metrópoles) to make people think something that is not true, this audio corroborates my story and proves that there never was a crack scheme”.
In a post on social networkJanones said that the “suggestion” of taking part of employees’ salaries to pay campaign debts was vetoed by his lawyer.
“Once again, a part of our camp almost made the same mistake as when they accused President Lula in the triplex case, as they had images of him visiting the apartment. ‘Indisputable’ evidence, according to some. When will we learn not to judge and condemn before contradictory and broad defense? I thought Lava-Jato had left lessons”, wrote the deputy.
Deputy is also accused by former advisors of moral harassment
Last month, two former Janones employees accused the congressman of moral harassment. One of them had previously accused the deputy of splitting and racism.
The harassment complaint was revealed by the newspaper Diário do Politics, after the newspaper had access to prints of conversations sent by former advisors in which Janones insults and humiliates employees.
In prints of messages from a group attributed to the cabinet team, the Lulista deputy calls the employees “stupid”, “incompetent”, “human waste”, “worms” and other insults.
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