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Suspect in business fees SBM Offshore defends
March 21, 2014 · By Writing SINCOMAM · in News
The founding partner of companies Serpetro, Faercom and Oildrive, Julio Faerman, quoted in the complaint on the internet as repassing alleged bribes of SBM Offshore, a Dutch company that rents platform ships (FPSOs) to oil, dismissed the accusations and defended his career in an open letter published by the press.
Firms Faerman were representatives of SBM in Brazil for 30 years until the company establish office in Rio His name was mentioned in a former employee of the Dutch company report, published in October last year in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, accusing former employer to pay $ 250 million in bribes to officials of several countries, including $ 139.2 million for the Brazil.
Faerman says in the letter that his "honor has been severely attacked." "This former employee of SBM, according to the report of that same company, tried to extort her before making public the allegations that are now accepted and conveyed lightly. There is no other source, no other proof, "says the letter, published on advertising space in the newspaper O Globo.
In a press release, after the revelation of the former official complaint by Dutch business magazine Quote, in early February, SBM also dismissed the allegations and reported the attempted blackmail.
The letter also associates the name of a Petrobras employee cited in the complaint to an officer of the company. According to the report published on the internet, emails between executives SBM would cite a future meeting with the then "chief engineer" of Petrobras, quoted only as Figueiredo. José Antonio de Figueiredo's Director of Engineering, Technology and Materials. "The name of a Petrobras director whose impeccable integrity and a long services of that company are of historical knowledge was mentioned," the letter says.
The prosecutor of the Netherlands included the testimony of former employee in research that runs the country, after the SBM itself forward information about the case from an internal audit revealed in April 2012. After Petrobras is involved, the Federal Police and Federal prosecutors have opened investigations. The House of Representatives has also created a commission to investigate the external expensive.
Source: Jornal do Commercio (PE) / From AE