Capital Conversation with Pedro Portugal Gaspar, General Inspector of ASAE
In an interview with Antena and Jornal de Negócios, the General Inspector of ASAE revealed that so far ASAE has received 400 complaints related to the increase in the price of chemical products and monitoring actions within 8 days. The first monitoring was carried out 24 hours after the reduction of the ISP and the second 8 days later, at the same 71 posts. In the second action, the 10 percent of the sample that initially had not made any changes, according to Pedro Portugal, no solution was made. According to the General Observer of ASAE, the 10 percent oscillation detected in the price does not constitute, in the light of the Public Ministry’s criteria, an illegitimate profit.
Since there is no reference to the temporary mechanism that will get the medium from the MWH, Pedro Portugal says that the price is not foreseen at all, but possibly within that area of activity of ASAE, in which the collaborative action of ASAE with other entities, namely with regard to price control.
In terms of foodstuffs, ASAE says that it has been monitoring the impact of inflation on prices and states that despite being detected in increases of more than 20 and 30 percent, they are not speculation.
ASAE has 1000 criminal cases in progress and 37 thousand administrative offense cases. In 2021, ASAE inspected 43,000 economic operators, 42 percent for the food sector. In the future AS will be particularly attentive to the AE protection crime, which precedes money laundering, where there have already been 1000 years in the last four years; for the sale of players and as club transactions, as well as products of national origin.
Regarding the means of distraction to reach these fins, Pedro Portugal revealed that the budget of ASAE foreseen in the OE is 21 million, estimated Gas higher than last year (about 1 million), but still falls short of the 25 million it had request to guardianship. With this amount, the General wants to invest in the laboratories, in the modernization of the computer system, acquisition of equipment, acquisition of vehicles and reinforcement of the staff.
Business interview by journalists Rosário, from Antena Diana do Mar do Mar do Jornal.