São Paulo pay fortune to ally’s firm despite broken contract | OneFootball

São Paulo maintains an annual contract of R$ 6.8 million with the cleaning company Milclean, whose owner is a historical ally and former partner of the president of the Paulista Football Federation (FPF), Reinaldo Carneiro Bastos.

The agreement was signed at the end of 2024 by president Júlio Casares and stipulates monthly payments of R$ 569,856.20 until June 2027, totaling just over R$ 20 million over the duration of the contract.

Behind the scenes at the club, the contract is the subject of questioning by board members and has already been reported to the Civil Police, which is considering opening a specific investigation into the contract.

Milclean is in the name of Otávio Alves Corrêa Filho, a friend of Bastos for over 40 years. They have shared business partnerships for decades, with joint participation in companies and real estate, as well as common involvement in the management of Taubaté and the FPF itself.

Bastos claims he left the company in 2021, when he sold his share for R$ 3.9 million, and denies any current relationship. Even so, documents obtained by ‘O Estado de S. Paulo‘ show that Corrêa Filho maintained real estate dealings with a company linked to Bastos' wife, married under a regime of total community property, which makes the director a guarantor of the operations.

The contract signed with the Tricolor also draws attention for its format. Although it was signed in December 2024, it establishes that services at the social club are retroactive to June of the same year, six months before formalization.

The agreement stipulates a minimum daily contingent of 96 employees from Monday to Saturday and 95 on Sundays and holidays, but internal attendance records from December 2025 indicate that this number was not met on any of the 31 days of the month.

The highest recorded contingent was 55 employees, and the lowest was 39, including on the 28th, a Sunday, a day of high activity at the club.

Milclean was founded in 1998 by Bastos and Corrêa Filho and declared a revenue of R$ 20 million in 2018. The company has been involved in other controversies, such as in the 2009 São Paulo Junior Football Cup, when the brand's advertising boards appeared in stadiums with significant television exposure.

In 2024, it was accused of overpricing by a councilman from São Sebastião (SP), a municipality that maintains a monthly contract of R$ 3 million with the provider.

In a statement, the FPF claims that any attempt to link Bastos to the São Paulo contract is “completely dishonest” and maintains that the director has had no knowledge or involvement with Milclean since 2021. The club, on the other hand, states that the agreement was made after a competition with seven companies, choosing the one with the lowest cost, and ensures that there is formal and daily control of the presence of the employees stipulated in the contract.

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