January 13, 2023

16:01

Ívina Garcia – from Amazon Agency

MANAUS – The expenses with Payment Card of the Federal Government (CPGF), in Amazonas, during Bolsonaro’s management, add up to R$ 284,689.96 thousand in bakeries, hotels and rental of equipment for events. The data were released first hand by Fiquem Sabendo, data agency specializing in access to public information.

AMAZON AGENCY had already revealed, through an Access to Information request, the spending of R$ 3,529,519.37 million on ten trips to the Amazon, in the period between 2019 and 2022, of former president Jair Bolsonaro and his entourage.

The list published by the federal government, on Wednesday, 11, brings an extract of the expenses from 2003, the first year of Lula’s government, until 2022, the last year of Bolsonaro’s government, which are available to the public through this link. See the complete spreadsheet at the end of the text.

Of the ten trips listed to Amazonas by the General Secretariat of the Presidency, two had no official record of the president in the capital. The others were made until June 2022, before the election period. Bolsonaro was once again in Amazonas in September of the same year, during campaigning, but none of the expenses in Amazonas in 2022 appear in the new spreadsheet.

‘Emergency’ expenses

Purchases on the corporate card comply with specific emergency rules, and the mechanism should normally be used for urgent purchases, which cannot depend on the time needed to conduct a bidding process. However, in Amazonas, Bolsonaro had “emergency” purchases in bakeries, tent rentals, and luxury accommodations.

AMAZON AGENCY crossed the data obtained and published in the November 2022 report with the new ‘Fiquem Sabendo’ listing. The added values do not coincide with the total amount sent to the report by SGP, because the overall expense may include per diems, tickets, and expenses not listed in the Corporate Card.

Almost R$80,000 in snacks

On the first trip to the state after being elected, on July 25, 2019, then-President Bolsonaro attended a meeting with politicians about the Manaus Free Trade Zone and held the delivery of certificates of the International Mathematics Olympiad without Borders for students of a military college.

According to the list of total travel expenses to the Amazon, the entourage would have cost R$ 137,563.33. In the detailed survey, there is the payment of R$ 14,431.20 for accommodation at Quality Manaus, on Mário Ypiranga Avenue, Adrianópolis neighborhood, and another R$ 17,600.00 spent on food at Ki Sabor snack bar, located on Getúlio Vargas Avenue, Manaus Center.

On November 27, 2019, Bolsonaro was in the capital to attend worship, dinner with Governor Wilson Lima and in the evening attended the opening of the 1st Sustainability Fair of the Manaus Industrial Pole – FesPIM, organized by the Superintendence of the Free Trade Zone. The trip cost a total of R$280,321.99.

Of this amount, are listed in the new disclosure, accommodation at Novotel Manaus, in the amounts of R$ 23,991.42 and R$ 2,172.60, which added up to R$ 26,164.02. In addition to a lunch of R$ 42,658.00 at Ki Sabor snack bar.

In 2020, the former president did not visit the capital of Amazonas, but returned on April 22, 2021, to attend the inauguration of a pavilion of the Vasco Vasques Convention Center, as well as a meeting with evangelical leaders and an interview with a local television network, with the total cost of R$ 178,848.86.

Of this total, R$ 41,397.19 are listed in the new survey, being R$ 28,089.60 in accommodation at Quality Manaus; 12 supplies in the Auto Posto Potência, which added up to R$ 1,328.59; rent equipment at Tendas Clim, for R$ 2,250.00, and more R$ 9,729.00 spent at the snack bar Ki Sabor. On the occasion, the former president received the Title of Citizen of Amazonas, proposed by some representatives of the State Legislative Assembly and sanctioned by Governor Wilson Lima.

On August 18, 2021, Jair Bolsonaro and his entourage spent a total of R$ 305,254.46 to be at the inauguration of Module B of the Residencial Cidadão Manauara II, with the mayor of Manaus, David Almeida, and the state governor, Wilson Lima. On this trip were spent R$ 18,648.00 in accommodation at the Quality Manaus, another R$ 9,480.00 at Ki Sabor snack bar, R$ 3,975.00 for the company Tendas Clim Events and R$ 395.17 at the Auto Posto Gaspetro.

Longest trip to Manaus

Between October 26 and 28, 2021, Bolsonaro spent R$ 504,173.88 in his longest trip to the capital. In the city, the former president attended the Soldiers’ Training Course Ball 2020, interviews, Public Consecration of Pastors of Amazonas and a service of the Assembly of God.

This was also the most expensive accommodation in the capital of Amazonas, totaling R$ 38,841.60, at the Quality Hotel. It was also where the president consumed R$ 12,255.00 at the Serpan bakery and confectionery, located in the Cidade Nova neighborhood, North Zone of Manaus. Bolsonaro also paid R$ 774 in accommodation for the 12th Military Region, besides spending R$ 3,371.32 at Pátio Gourmet, another R$ 6 thousand for Alpha Produções and R$ 858.08 at Auto Posto Potência.

The other trips of the president happened in 2022, in May, June and September. In the amounts of R$ 546,752.12, in May, to participate in the March for Jesus; R$ 541,571.92 to participate in the Apostolic Anointing and in the International Congress of the Cellular Vision in the Model of 12, organized by pastor Renê Terra Nova, an ally of the president; and the September trip, during the election period had no disclosed value.

São Gabriel da Cachoeira

The most significant trip of the former president happened in May 2021, when he went to the city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, 860 kilometers from Manaus, where he inaugurated the Rodrigo and Cibele Bridge. At the time, the case went viral after noting that the wooden bridge was only 18 meters long and cost three times less than the value of the motorcade.

The work carried out by the federal government cost R$ 255.174,38, while the motorcade to get to the inauguration site reached a total of R$ 710.835,28. Besides this work, the former president made the delivery of solar energy modules in the 5th Special Border Platoon – PEF, in Santa Isabel do Rio Negro.

Considered the most expensive trip to the Amazon, the new list brings the detail of some expenses during the period that the former president was in the city. According to the data, were spent R$ 23,204.20 in snack bar and bakery Elite, and another R$ 17,951.10 in a retail trade in the city.