Zé Trovão exonerates advisor who was dismissed from Embratur on charges of sexual harassment – 02/28/2023 – Panel

Federal deputy Zé Trovão (PL-SC) exonerated Marcus Thiago de Oliveira Figueiredo from his office, who in 2020 was exonerated from the position of general coordinator of Information Technology at Embratur after being accused of harassing a 21-year-old employee of the agency of tourism.

The nomination was revealed by the Panel on Monday (20), and the dismissal by Guilherme Amado’s column on the Metrópoles website. The parliamentarian’s office confirmed the dismissal of Figueiredo, who spent less than a month as parliamentary secretary.

In early 2023, Figueiredo’s dismissal from Embratur was converted into dismissal by the Union’s Internal Affairs Department, a penalty that prohibits holding federal public office for five years. The defense appealed the decision.

A report by Metrópoles showed several WhatsApp messages from Figueiredo in which he makes sexual insinuations and invitations to the subordinate, who says she is committed and reveals discomfort with the obscene attacks.

In these messages, Figueiredo says he has a desire for the employee, asks if she feels the same (she denies it) and reports erotic dreams about her.

Figueiredo’s defense, who now responds to an administrative process, said at the time that the conversations had been cut out of context and that the fact that the employee continued to work with him after the exchange of messages would show that the relationship between both were friendly.

The then president of Embratur, Gilson Machado Neto, who would later become Minister of Tourism in the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, said at the time that he had determined Figueiredo’s removal until the case was clarified.

Still in 2020, shortly after leaving Embratur, the former coordinator was received by Bolsonaro at the Planalto Palace as a member of the Médicos Pela Vida association, which encouraged the preventive use of medicines such as chloroquine against Covid-19, contrary to scientific consensus. , which says that they have no efficacy against the disease.

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