Justice Committee gets Andrés Sanchez’s early term card bills

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·7 November 2025

Justice Committee gets Andrés Sanchez’s early term card bills

By Daniel Keppler / Central do Timão Editorial Team

Internal investigations into improper spending that occurred during previous Corinthians administrations are ongoing at Parque São Jorge. Central do Timão has learned that this week, the Justice Committee of the Deliberative Council (CD) received in hand the corporate card statements for the club for the first seven months of Andrés Sanchez's administration, whose term was from 2018 to 2020. The documents will be reviewed by the committee in a meeting in the coming days.

Although the former president's expenses were already under investigation, and even reported by the São Paulo Public Prosecutor's Office (MP-SP), these procedures had not yet considered the period between January and July 2018. This is because, during this period, the club had a banking partnership with American Express, with only one card to centralize its expenses, and those statements had not yet been provided.

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Only from August 2018, when Corinthians switched banks from American Express to Santander, did it start issuing secondary cards, including one for presidential expenses. These statements had already been provided, and in the review of the expenses, dozens of suspicious charges unrelated to the club were found, leading to the MP-SP's complaint against Andrés Sanchez and Roberto Gavioli, then financial manager, from whom the agency is seeking reimbursement of R$ 480,000 to the club plus a 75% fine for each.

Internally, the case is initially being investigated by the Justice Committee, to whom complaints made by Corinthians members and fans were forwarded by CD president Romeu Tuma Júnior at the beginning of August. Since then, it has been found that the committee analyzed not only Andrés's expenses, but also those of former presidents Duilio Monteiro Alves and Augusto Melo, thus covering the last seven and a half years of card expenses.

In addition, the Justice Committee invited former members of these administrations to determine responsibility for the lack of oversight of the corporate cards during the period. Also according to information obtained by Central do Timão, other former directors were heard in writing after refusing the committee's invitations to testify in person in recent weeks.

However, some individuals whose testimony is of interest to the committee have not yet responded to the committee—whose invitations are not coercive, and therefore can be declined. Some of the names in this situation are the former financial manager and the former advisor to Augusto Melo's presidency, Luiz Ricardo Alves (“Seedorf”) and Dayna Barossi.

Central do Timão reached out to both for comment. Seedorf stated that he was contacted by the Deliberative Council's secretary, but not with a formal invitation from the Justice Committee, which he said he would accept if received. Dayna also stated that she has not yet received any invitation from the committee.

The tendency, according to sources, is that the Justice Committee will not wait several more weeks to collect the remaining testimonies. If any individual refuses to respond, either in person or in writing, the committee will proceed with the investigation, hearing the former presidents, and then prepare its report to forward to the Ethics and Discipline Committee (CED), the body responsible for opening its own proceedings and assessing possible statutory irregularities committed by all involved.

The issue was also the subject of debate at the last meeting of the Guidance Council (CORI), held on October 29. On that occasion, financial director Emerson Piovesan mentioned to the committee that he is monitoring current corporate card expenses and requiring proof of spending. Councilor Fausto di Totti, a member of CORI, also reiterated the need to investigate the use of card mileage and cashback—one of the elements the Justice Committee is investigating in its inquiries.

Meanwhile, former president Duilio Monteiro Alves has his videoconference testimony at the MP-SP scheduled for the 13th. He is expected to provide clarification about possible irregularities in the use of the corporate card during his term (2021-23).

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