Prosecutors revise charges against ex-Corinthians president over hospital invoice

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·30 octobre 2025

Prosecutors revise charges against ex-Corinthians president over hospital invoice

By Fabio Luigi / Central do Timão Editorial Team

This Wednesday (29), the São Paulo Public Prosecutor's Office (MP-SP) made an adjustment to the complaint against the former president of Corinthians, Andrés Sanchez, regarding the misuse of the club's corporate card during his second term (2018–2020). The change occurred after the agency received the invoice from Albert Einstein Hospital, which initially had not found evidence in the name of Andrés or the club itself.

In his name, the executive used the Corinthians corporate card at Albert Einstein Hospital on August 9, 2018, incurring an expense of R$ 5,311.64 with payment made via a Santander Mastercard. As a result, the prosecutor in the case changed the crime classification from “tax document forgery” to “forgery or issuance of a false tax document.”

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Initially, the Public Prosecutor's Office raised the suspicion that third parties had used the Corinthians card to pay for the service. However, it was found that it was Andrés Sanchez himself who paid for the exam conducted at the hospital. It is worth noting that at the beginning of this month, the former president was charged by the MP-SP with money laundering, embezzlement, and tax document forgery, involving club resources.

Furthermore, between August 2018 and February 2021, the Public Prosecutor's Office identified more than 200 expenses made with the Corinthians card, resulting in a loss of over R$ 480,000 to the club's coffers. The prosecution requested that Andrés Sanchez and Roberto Gaviolli, then financial manager, return the amounts to the club. Among the expenses investigated, the purchase of watches, designer clothes, and even medications aimed at improving sexual performance stand out.

In the document obtained by Central do Timão, the Public Prosecutor's Office points out that Andrés Sanchez, in his name, used the Corinthians corporate card to cover personal services, which, according to the prosecution, constitutes a case of money laundering.

“The defendant ANDRÉS N. SANCHES, using the SCCP corporate card, covered strictly private and personal expenses and ordered the issuance of a tax document in his own name, aware that the payments came from the current account linked to the entity's corporate credit card, aiming to hinder the traceability of the relationship between the expense and the club's assets, disguise the nature, origin, and ownership of the values that covered it, and finally, conceal the ownership of the asset/service covered, thus falling under the provisions of article 1, “caput” and &1, I, of Law 9.613/98.

It is clarified that the legal classification has already been typified in the complaint offered, with only the need to rewrite the facts, because EINSTEIN presented the invoice issued in the name of the defendant, which characterizes a stage of money laundering.”

“The defendant ANDRÉS, by determining and allowing the invoice related to the expense of hospital service provision covered through the SCCP corporate card account to be issued in his own name, when, in fact, the expense was borne by the club, proceeded to issue a tax document with a different ownership from the real one, which constitutes forgery/alteration of a taxable document or issuance of a false or inaccurate document with the purpose of defrauding inspection and concealing the real taxation.

Thus, the provisions of article 1, III, of Law 8137/90 apply. Lastly, the crime of article 1, V of Law 8137/90, considering this new revelation from the hospital, ceased to exist and was replaced by another crime of article 1, III, of Law 8137/90,” says part of the excerpt sent to the Court.

In addition to Andrés Sanchez, the administrations of former presidents Duilio Monteiro Alves (2021-2023) and Augusto Melo (January 2024 to May 2025) are also under investigation by the Public Prosecutor's Office. In Duilio's case, the MP-SP is investigating suspicious expenses totaling R$ 80,000 in just 40 days of his presidency. According to the investigation by Central do Timão, the former president's driver will be heard by the prosecution this Thursday (30).

The MP-SP requested the court to remove the three mentioned former presidents from the club's main bodies until the investigations are concluded, to avoid any internal interference in processes related to possible punishments. Amid the investigations, Andrés Sanchez, a lifetime counselor of Corinthians, requested his removal from the Deliberative Council and the Advisory Council (CORI), of which he is a natural member, a measure followed by Duilio Monteiro Alves, who also holds a lifetime counselor position.

Meanwhile, Augusto Melo, definitively removed from office in August after becoming a defendant in the VaideBet case, lost his political rights at Parque São Jorge and currently holds no position at the club.

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