Public prosecutor drops criminal probe into Corinthians Fiscal Council | OneFootball

According to Globo.com, public prosecutor Cássio Conserino has asked for the criminal inquiry into alleged ideological falsehood by members of Corinthians’ Fiscal Council to be closed. The case centred on a meeting that underpinned the council’s opinion on the club’s 2025 accounts in Osmar Stabile’s administration.

The probe was opened after councillor Haroldo Dantas attended the Fiscal Council meeting on the eve of a Deliberative Council vote. Dantas, a lawyer for companies owned by the Corinthians president, had been removed from his duties on the body over a conflict of interest.

During depositions, Conserino learned that Fiscal Council members Cláudio Senise and Paulo Schmidt had consulted Miguel Marques e Silva, president of the Conselho de Orientação, CORI, about Dantas’s status. They were told the Ethics Committee lacked statutory authority to impose a precautionary, single-judge suspension on a Fiscal Council member.

On that basis, the prosecutor concluded the guidance obtained removed the specific intent required for the alleged offence of ideological falsehood.

He also noted that councillor Ronaldo Fernandez Tomé, who had ordered Dantas’s precautionary removal, had months earlier voted to shelve a separate administrative case on the same matter.

Conserino said the circumstances around Dantas’s participation may suggest a possibly irregular administrative act, but fell outside the remit of the Criminal Prosecutor’s Office. He referred the case to the Public Heritage and Social Prosecutor’s Office, which is handling an inquiry into potential judicial intervention at the club.

Last year’s numbers showed a deficit of R$ 143.441 million for Timão, yet the accounts were approved.

Source: Globo.com