Revenue says it will restrict server access – 03/03/2023 – Power

The Federal Revenue announced this Friday (3) measures in response to the investigation carried out irregularly at the Tax Authorities in 2019 against opponents of the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL).

The case was revealed by Sheet. On Thursday (2), the Federal Police decided to open a specific investigation into undue access.

In a statement, the Treasury reports how it acts against this type of action, states that the accesses are traceable and that “it will promote the improvement of the system this year, always requiring adequate and detailed motivation” so that the servers can search for information.

Also within the announced measures, the Revenue decided that, until March 31, the number of servers authorized to access data will be restricted.

A Sheet showed that internal Revenue documents indicate that Ricardo Pereira Feitosa, then head of the agency’s intelligence at the beginning of Bolsonaro’s term, accessed and copied confidential tax data from the coordinator of investigations into the alleged “cracks” scheme (the then attorney general of Justice of Rio Eduardo Gussem) and two politicians who had broken with the presidential family, businessman Paulo Marinho and former minister Gustavo Bebianno.

According to the documents, the undue accesses took place on July 10, 16 and 18, 2019, the first year of the Bolsonaro administration (2019-2022).

There was no formal investigation underway at the Revenue Service against these three people, which resulted in the subsequent opening of an internal investigation and disciplinary process that concluded with the suggestion of Feitosa’s dismissal from public service.

The case will be decided by the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad.

Bolsonaro made only one demonstration on his social networks, reproducing the title of the report plus the inscription “fake news”. Feitosa denies having leaked confidential data and said he always acted in accordance with the law.

Feitosa’s defense released a note in which it criticizes “selective leaking of a process that runs under legal secrecy is a crime and promotes a violation of the security of the proper ongoing procedural progress”.

“The defense repudiates the violation of the legal secrecy of the process, entrusted to those who should guard it, constituting a crime provided for in article 325 of the Penal Code, which is an attack on democracy and due process of law”, says lawyer Marco Marrafon, who sign the note.

The Revenue, in the document in which it indicates the measures that will be taken, states that “the servers that accessed protected data, without motivation, have been identified and are being properly processed”.

The Treasury also promises an audit of security controls for this year and says it implements all determinations and recommendations of the Federal Audit Court.

In the note released this Friday, the Revenue Service says that it does not minimize the seriousness of the reported facts, but points out that “out of a total of about 21 thousand civil servants, the cases cited by the press mention irregularities by 8 civil servants, whose offense was identified, processed and, as said, in some cases, punished by the Federal Revenue”.

The Treasury also says it ensures security, secrecy and control over access to information protected by tax secrecy and that it will adopt all the measures listed by the Federal Court of Auditors.

As shown to Sheetthe Revenue Service did not include the case of access without legal justification made to data from the former president’s enemies when it sent the TCU a list of internal investigations into possible irregular queries.

TCU’s request for the information is in the same case in which the Revenue claims to comply with all determinations and recommendations.

The list lists investigations against eight servers for alleged illegal access, but does not include the case of Ricardo Pereira Feitosa —general coordinator of Revenue Research and Investigation in 2019. At the time, he was the subject of an investigative inquiry at the Tax Authorities.