Corinthians council chief reverses suspension, resumes corporate card investigations into ex-presidents | OneFootball

Corinthians’ Deliberative Council president Romeu Tuma Júnior has overturned a suspension and restarted internal probes into alleged misuse of the club’s corporate card by former presidents Andrés Sanchez, Duilio Monteiro Alves and Augusto Melo. The inquiries had been on hold since last Monday.

According to Meu Timao, a new directive authorises the Ethics and Discipline and Justice commissions to resume work, with Tuma calling the earlier halt a prudential, preventive step while criminal precautionary measures remained unclear.

Amid inquiries by São Paulo prosecutors, Tuma requested access to files from another court case involving the club. The prosecutors are also examining a possible judicial intervention at Corinthians.

Tuma’s dispatch says the civil inquiry supports the club in continuing internal checks. He added that the complaint against Duilio has not been admitted by the court, and that Augusto Melo faces no complaint on this matter.

He asked the board to deliver outstanding documents within five working days, by 23 February, and ordered the case files kept confidential.

Andrés is before the Ethics Commission over alleged misuse during his second term, between 2018 and 2020. Duilio was preparing to appear before the Justice Commission.

In October, prosecutors charged Andrés and former finance manager Roberto Gavioli with embezzlement, money laundering and falsifying a tax document, though Gavioli was not accused of the latter, before those decisions were suspended by the São Paulo courts. The case cites more than 200 irregular expenses across 31 statements, seeking about R$ 480,000 plus 75 percent for moral damages, roughly R$ 1.1 million in total. Duilio is probed over 2021 to 2023 spending that records suggest exceeded limits by more than R$ 80,000. He later gave a brief deposition stating he used only R$ 1,300.

Source: Meu Timao