Brazilian TelexFree audit delayed 120 days (due 2015)
News broke a few weeks ago that the firm charged with conducting an audit of TelexFree’s Brazilian operations had requested an additional 120 day extension.
By my records this is the second extension Ernst & Young have sought, with the first requested and granted back in July.
Ernst & Young trotted out the same reason they used in July for the recent request, citing issued of complexity in auditing TelexFree’s Brazilian operations.
So far, thousands of checking accounts with ties to Telexfree were found. Also identified was a large volume of resources handled by business in Brazil.
TelexFree supporters in Brazil still hold out that the final audit report, now due in early 2015 will absolve TelexFree.
Personally I think “complexity” is just code for “the level of fraud we have uncovered is unprecedented”. Regulators in the US meanwhile are currently going over 400 terabytes of data seized when TelexFree’s US offices were raided earlier this year.
Realistically, if everything was above-board there’d be no need for what now cumulatively constitutes an 8 month delay in Ernst & Young’s audit. What perfectly explains the delay though is the strenuous piecing together of forensic accounting information.
The task of accurately tracking the flow of money from new TelexFree investors to those who had invested previously is no small task. Let alone drawing conclusions from the reports and presenting it to the court.
Working out where and how TelexFree’s owners hid the money they skimmed off the top is also likely to pose a challenge for the firm.
Meanwhile word on the grapevine is that Carlos Costa is currently under medical observation. Apparently things have taken a turn for the worse after his crushing defeat in recent Brazilian elections.
Costa hasn’t been seen or heard from publicly since the election earlier this month. His campaign Facebook page and website were deleted just days after the elections were held.
On November 22, 2013 were published in the Journal of Justice Acre doubts to be clarified by the end of expertise Ernst & Young in the Ympactus / Telexfree business in mid-February 2015.
Are at least 60 questions listed below will clear how, how much, who won and lost with the alleged financial pyramid. The information below indicates a really thorough job in the whole scheme and in the end justice will take all hands on everyone involved.
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diario.tjac.jus.br/display.php?Diario=3050&Secao=374
That’s something I really doubt. We’ve seen Costa making his usual Youtube appearances even when he was attached to the hospital machinery wearing nothing but a johnny.
Remember when SEC investigation came to light? Costa then dissapeared for almost two months, only to be seen again when it was time to start his political campaign. There’s nothing he wants from his zombies right now, so he’s decided to just sneak away.
Word on the streets is that E&Y had released some (non public) piece of information and based on that Costa was trying to get an approval to allow some other firm to make a “second” audit, which was already denied by Judge Thais Borges.
We can confirm the last part of that, since the denial was made public, but we cannot say for sure what’s been released so far by E&Y.
Knowing Costa and his gang as we know, it was definitely not good news to TF, or we’d be watching a thousand “take that you anti get rich quick dorks” videos all over the web.
I thought, now that political immunity was off the table (as misguided as that was given the crimes were committed before the election), Costa might have been going for “I’m too sick, you can’t jail me!”
Watch the BS start up about being on the verge of a heart attack once he’s formally charged.
I’m looking forward to reading the E&Y report. I just hope it’s not a thousand page Portuguese document or some such :).
Brazilians have had their share of that: last year a lot of corrupt politicians went to jail just to start filling complaints about how old and sick they were, so justice should put them under house arrest only.
That’s definitiely the next card Costa is going to pull.
the 120 days are up. deadline was supposed to be today. no word from ernst and young yet????