During his deposition to the Joint Special Investigative Committee on Corporative Cards, on Tuesday (20), the Senate’s legislative consultant André Eduardo da Silva Fernandes said he considered the dossier on secret expenses of former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso an act of “intimidation". The dossier was sent to him on an e-mail, by the chief of Civil Cabinet’s Internal Control, José Aparecido Nunes.

André Fernandes reminded the context in which he received the messages, on February 20 this year. At that time, he observed, the National Congress was discussing whether it would create a Special Investigative Committee (CPI) to investigate irregular expenses made with corporate credit cards.

- At that time there was discussions whether a CPI would be created or not. I understood that as a threat - he affirmed.

As André Fernandes told, José Aparecido sent him, on February 20, an e-mail with two attached messages. One of the files contained the database on secret expenses of Fernando Henrique Cardoso’s government and the other, a text written by José Aparecido affirming that irregular expenses should be target of special investigation. The consultant guaranteed the parliamentarians that he did not leak information on the dossier to the press.

André Fernandes affirmed that José Aparecido had already tried to intimidate him, in 2004, when he was consultant of the Joint Special Investigative Committee created in 2003 to investigate the sending of money to fiscal paradises – the CPMI of Banestado. He said he knew José Aparecido since 1991 and later worked with him at the Federal Accounting Court (TCU). After a while, however, said André Fernandes, political divergences moved them away, in spite of common friends trying to approach them.

Fernando also confirmed that he met Aparecido and two more friends for lunch at the Clube Naval, to discuss the subject’s repercussion in the press. The legislative consultant guaranteed that he did not record that conversation, but he affirmed José Aparecido said, on that day, that Erenice Guerra, advisor of the chief minister of Civil Cabinet, had ordered the preparation of a "selective database."