Ex-Auditor Who Faked Death Jailed in Bahia as STJ Sets Review of Extinction Order

Overview

• São Paulo prosecutors requested that Arnaldo Augusto Pereira be moved to a state prison as he remains in preventive detention in Bahia after his Oct. 15 arrest.
• The Superior Court of Justice scheduled a session today to reconsider and nullify the prior extinguishment of a punishment granted after a death certificate was filed.
• Investigators say he admitted paying R$45,000 for the certificate, which a Salvador physician signed remotely using a cellphone video; Bahia’s forensics department says it did not come from the IML.
• Prosecutors report he tried to use the false paperwork to unlock more than R$1 million in assets that had been frozen in corruption cases.
• The physician and the registry office are under administrative and criminal scrutiny, and Pereira now faces new counts for falsifying and using public documents in addition to his 43-year corruption convictions under appeal.