A suitcase of euros with the purpose of buying a senator, espionage agents, federal police officers and inoculating computer viruses in the largest telephone companies in the Brazilian market. Furthermore: to guarantee the transport of the bribe, Telecom Italia personnel had, in Brazil, the protection and escort of agents from the Italian secret service, Sismi, to prevent them from being searched by Brazilian authorities — Sismi (Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare) changed its name to Aise, in August The statements are contained in the testimony of Fabio Ghioni, one of the former executives of Telecom Italia (TI), in a process taking place in Milan and citing dozens of Brazilians. (Read the statement below)
Some of the paperwork with the accusations has already arrived in the country. The other is being awaited. In the statement, he also mentions investor Naji Nahas. According to Veja magazine , "Telecom Italia made at least a withdrawal Austria Phone Numbers List of million reais in cash in the name of investor Naji Nahas, a central character in the crisis that shook the Rio de Janeiro Stock Exchange in " . According to Ghioni, the money given to Nahas served to "corrupt politicians to obtain concessions at the local level that would serve TIM Brasil for the exercise of telephony" and "to reward Telecom employees for the way they used the material extracted from Kroll in favor of Telecom" , among other purposes.
In , the Federal Regional Court of the rd Region decided to request the material. In December , judge Adriana Zanetti, from the th Federal Criminal Court of São Paulo, responsible for the process that investigates illegal acts of espionage carried out by Kroll, at the request of representatives of the banker Daniel Dantas, decided to suspend the work until the Court arrives the Milan investigation. It includes Fabio Ghioni's accusations.
Ghioni, Giuliano Tavaroli, and Angelo Jannone, former executives of Telecom Italia, were indicted by the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office, along with others involved in the case, for violating computer systems and illegally wiretapping people in Italy and abroad on behalf of the Telecom Italy. Telecom Italia's group of spies was named Tiger Team.
All these investigated episodes belong to the first phase of telephony privatization in Brazil. Daniel Dantas, according to his enemies, intended to eliminate his competitors from the dispute. These, in turn, united against him. The Italians believed that if Dantas were to leave, they would receive Brasil Telecom as a trophy — which would justify the investment. But with the departure of the government of Luís Gushiken, guarantor of the deal, the Italians were left with only a loss.