The Itu police station opened a police investigation to investigate Ana Hickmann's complaint that her husband Alexandre Correa had embezzled around R$25 million from the couple's business accounts since 2018 and forged the Record presenter's signatures on checks and other loan agreements. Correa denies the allegations and filed a habeas corpus petition to suspend the police investigation.
The investigation was opened on the 29th by the delegate Marcia Pereira Cruz at the request of the prosecutor Mariane Monteiro Schmid, who in turn analyzed the criminal intelligence presented by Ana Hickmann's lawyers. The crime report also accuses Correa of physically attacking the presenter in front of her nineyearold son at the Itu villa on November 11 in order to intimidate her and prevent reporting on alleged embezzlement and fraud.
The document from Ana Hickmann's lawyers, to which the TV news Since the company had exclusive access, it also points to suspicions of “money laundering” and “criminal organization” among two women who worked in the presenter's companies and even at notary offices that recognized companies that, according to the statement the moderator did not sign.
The crime report also states that the reporter's debts to the presenter and her company amount to 34 million [Ana Hickmann]”.
The document stated that Ana and her husband had been in marital crisis since the beginning of the year due to financial problems and that the situation worsened in the middle of the year when the presenter received the first of a series of charges, such as a loan worth R$400,571.72 from Banco Safra.
The week before the couple's argument, exactly a month ago, Ana asked her friend Daniella Marques Consentino, former president of the Caixa Econômica Federal, to analyze documents she had found in drawers of her office in Vila Romana (West Zone of São Paulo). .
According to the narrative, the presenter then discovered that her husband had “formalized several instruments of admission of private debts and loan agreements with individuals and legal entities by inserting Ana's false signatures, which enabled the reception again without the knowledge or consent of the news reporter.” of at least R$25 million, an asset whose destination is unknown but which was certainly not recorded in the accounts of the reporter or the legal entities she manages.”
The crime report states that Ana was a victim of domestic violence “with the aim of ensuring impunity for previous crimes or, in other words, in the context of the lasting psychological suffering that is characteristic of genderbased violence even the commission of crimes to facilitate.” ”
The document lists the following suspected irregularities:
- Ana's false signature on a check for R$55,000 from Banco Bradesco, dated September 2022 to September 23, 2023.
- Ana's false signature as guarantor of a loan of R$ 1,051,430.44 at Banco do Brasil for the company Hickmann Serviços on September 22, 2022.
- Ana's incorrect signature on the authorization to query the Central Bank's credit information system on November 11, 2021.
- Ana's false signatures as joint debtor and legal representative of Hickmann Serviços, all notarized at the 19th Registry Office of São Paulo, in seven loan agreements with businessman Vanderlei Moreira, totaling R$ 2,388,694.33 between April 2021 and June 2022.
- Ana's false signature as guarantor of a loan agreement with the company Ênfase Ice Propaganda in the amount of R$ 4,800,000 on September 19, 2023.
- False signatures of Ana as intervening consent/guarantor and as legal representative of Hickmann Serviços in a guilty plea instrument in favor of Wanderley Venere Boventi on September 27, 2023.
In her decision, prosecutor Mariane Monteiro Schmid pointed out the need for a police investigation to classify the crimes. She asked for expertise on the checks and contracts presented.
Opposite side: Ana wants to get rid of debt
Enio Martins Murad, Alexandre Correa's lawyer, states that Ana Hickmann was aware of and signed all of her husband's loan agreements and that the amounts were fully recorded in the accounts. He says the recording star's narrative is an attempt to vilify Correa and get rid of the debt he incurred to pay his own bills.
Murad also claims that the business crisis began during the pandemic when Correa was out of business due to cancer treatment (he had a nymph node removed from his neck).
According to the lawyer, the Ana Hickmann brand experienced significant expansion as it grew, and the “company took on greater obligations than it could take on.” This, along with the closure of stores and franchises, worsened the situation, and when Correa took command of the companies again, he had to resort to loans.
Murad also points out inconsistencies in the reporting of property crimes, as Ana and Correa are partners and married under a partial property partnership. It cites Article 181 of the Criminal Code, which provides that spouses, ancestors and descendants are exempt from this crime.
Under this premise, Murad and lawyer Diva Nogueira filed two motions: one to stop the police investigation and a habeas corpus request seeking an injunction to suspend the investigation on the grounds that their client was under an “unlawful Embarrassment” suffer. He also sent the following note TV news:
“On the conditions of the statements made by the presenter Ana Lúcia Hickmann regarding the incident of alleged fraud and forgery in documents belonging to the couple's company, as well as the allegations before the public and at the Itu/SP police station, in the sense that you Husband Alexandre Bello Correa allegedly diverted amounts of more than 30 million reais from company assets, the defense explains that there is no administrative or judicial decision indicating this and that they are just mere allegations without any legitimacy.
In addition, due to the provisions of Article 181 of the Brazilian Penal Code and the absence of property crimes between husband and wife, Alexandre's defense has already requested that the investigation be closed in accordance with the law, since there is no justified criminal reason that he should be acquitted. summary.
Finally, Alexandre's lawyers explain that all funds raised on the financial market are deposited in the current accounts of the company and both partners, the amounts of which are included in the income tax of all those involved and whose documents are available to the authorities.