RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The prosecutor’s workplace at Brazil’s federal audit courtroom (TCU) has requested the courtroom to open an investigation into President Jair Bolsonaro’s appointment of Adriano Pires as chief government of state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro, for a doable battle of curiosity.
In keeping with a doc seen by Reuters and dated March 31, deputy prosecutor Lucas Furtado on the TCU mentioned Pires’s work as marketing consultant for multinational oil corporations “strongly signifies the existence of a doable battle of curiosity” if he turns into Petrobras CEO.
Pires, the founding father of consulting agency Centro Brasileiro de Infraestrutura (CBIE), was tapped this week to exchange Joaquim Silva e Luna as head of Petrobras after President Jair Bolsonaro criticized the corporate’s gas value coverage.
Power trade analysts hailed the appointment, and Petrobras shares rose the next day. Pires is called an advocate of privatizing Petrobras and has supported the corporate’s coverage of creating home gas costs replicate worldwide value actions.
However Furtado challenged the appointment.
“For over 20 years, he has been offering providers to the primary oil, gasoline and power multinationals,” the doc mentioned.
The appointment should nonetheless be authorized by a shareholders assembly. The subsequent one is scheduled for April 13.
Pires declined to touch upon the TCU investigation.
Reporting by Rodrigo Viga Gaier; Writing by Ana Mano; Enhancing by David Gregorio
