Company associated with Bolsonaro’s youngest son is granted 18 mining licenses in just two days

A company linked to Jair Renan, Jair Bolsonaro’s had 18 mining licenses granted in just two days. Amid an investigation into the crime of influence peddling and money laundering, Gramazini Granitos and Mármores Thomazini, linked to Jair Renan, youngest son of Jair Bolsonaro, got at the end of last year 18 more permits to mine in the south, southeast and northeast regions of the country. The decrees were published in the Diário Oficial da União (DOU) of December 29 and 30, 2021, and are valid for two to three years.

The group from Espírito Santo state, composed of 17 mining companies, is the same one that gave the Renan an electric car valued at R$ 90,000, as reported by O Globo newspaper early last year. A month after the donation, in October 2020, the firm scheduled a meeting with the Minister of Regional Development, Rogério Marinho, which Jair Renan also attended.

The situation drew the attention of the Federal Public Prosecution Office (MPF), which opened a preliminary procedure to investigate the case. Shortly afterwards, in December, the president’s son was summoned by the Federal Police to testify in the investigation.