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If the Federal Government wanted to finish the Comperj works today, the expense would be around BRL 200 billion, or more than 33 times the initial amount, explaining why Petrobras does not want to continue with the refinery project and keep only the UPGN . This was a survey published by TCU on June 07
During the year 2006, Luiz Inácio Lula da silva would have participated in the inauguration of the Rio de Janeiro Petrochemical Complex (Comperj), at Clube Mauá, which would form part of one of Petrobras' largest petrochemical complexes. However, nearly two decades after the incident, the Federal Court of Auditors (TCU) revealed that the loss to public coffers in relation to this construction and other complexes reached 47 billion reais. The information was endorsed by Veja Magazine.
The work on the Petrobras complex was a project created by the PT government in order to boost the Brazilian economy by automating the sale of oil and the production of fuels with fossil derivatives. However, today, the country is experiencing a crisis left by the state-owned company and the high price of fuel, which caused the price of gasoline to R$ 7 per liter in about twenty Brazilian states.
Petrochemical complex in Rio de Janeiro (RJ) has already consumed BRL 40 billion and has not produced a barrel of oil so far
The initial budget for the construction of Comperj, under the command of Petrobras, was R$ 6 billion, but, until today, construction has not been completed and expenses exceed R$ 40 billion
According to the TCU (Tribunal de Contas da União), the Petrochemical Complex of Rio de Janeiro (Comperj) should have been completed by the year 2011, having spent up to R$ 6 billion. However, still during 2017, it was in the process of being finalized and the government had already released more than BRL 30 billion for its completion.
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The petrochemical complex was not completed, but surveys show that, for the construction to be completed, given the double-digit inflation in Brazil in 2022, it will be necessary for the government to invest more than R$ 200 billion, which would make it unfeasible given the public debt that it is already occupying more than 80% of the value of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The TCU argues that it found a series of irregularities in the works, such as the hiring other companies illegally and also the overweight of purchased materials. The TCU claims that the criminal scheme was present both in the government of Dilma, who was disposed of as president in 2016, and of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, candidate for the presidency in 2022. After all, the scheme lasted between years 2006 and 2014.
After investigations, Renato Duque, former director of Petrobras, was notified to pay a fine to compensate for the damage caused by his management of the state-owned company. The former director would have been appointed to manage the state-owned company in 2003 by PT Luiz Inácio and, after procuring powers of attorney, was sentenced to more than 60 years in jail for crimes of passive and active corruption. In all, he would have been condemned by the Federal Audit Court, to pay the amount of R$ 975 million in fines.
In addition to the Petrobras complex that was the target of investigations, the former director during the PT government, who was responsible for managing the state-owned company, was also investigated for withdrawing part of the public funds destined for the construction of the Premium I and Premium II, in Maranhão and Ceará. See the Story of this article here.
