New book to expose Xanana's corruption and cronyism

A Portuguese officer who was expelled from Timor-Leste by Xanana's government is promising to tell all in a book he says he's about to publish.

The PSP officer, Jose Fernando Brito, used to work for CAC, Timor-Leste's anti-corruption body, or Comissão Anti-Corrupção. Writing in Portuguese for a Facebook post amid the political tension brewing between Xanana and FRETILIN, Brito left a number of "clues" for his readers.

On the electricity project, he claims to have handed documets to the then CAC commisisioner, José Neves. Brito alleges that all energy projects in Timor-Leste have been tainted by corruption. At least Brito maintains, that someone is making 3 times as much in profit for the cost of running the sector.

On Bobby B. Boye's case, Brito says that the Timor-Leste authorities have always been warned about his activities. The government should have detained Boye, instead the warnings were ignored and worse of all, Boye was awarded in recognition of his outstanding services.

Investigations into allegations of corruptions within health sector began in Novemberof 2010 by CAC. But, because of a lack of willingness within CAC and Prosecutors General's Office, the investigation continued instead in Holland, England, the US and Australia. As a result of this, $240 million was recuperated and a number of individuals were detained, including World Bank staff.

Brito was expelled from Timor-Leste, along with a group of Portuguese prosecutors who were investigating members of Xanana's government in 2014. Following the incident, Brito alleged in Portugal that Xanana is connected to contracts to buy rice through his daughter, as well as contracts to supply fuel to Timor-Leste's power station through his nephew Nilton Gusmão. Brito further alleged that Xanana also has a stake in the petroleum exploration, on- and offshore.

See below for a Google translation of Brito's Facebook post.

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 Today, the day of freedom of thought, I am here to satisfy all my Timor-Leste friends and those who are concerned about the fate of the increasingly excluded East Timorese, who insist in seeking me to help expose the tragedy raging in that country with corruption.

I am a police officer by profession from the moment I decided to embrace this cause, so I am guided by principles that aim at the satisfaction of the public good. I am not available to feed the media in the media and in the now very fashionable "social media", which, like what happened after November 5, 2014, is the scene of the usual weapons of the cowards: easy insult and attempts to disbelief to attacks on the character of my person.

Being of "law enforcement", I believe in principle and am and will always be available to support Justice. Justice in Timor-Leste, however, does not include balance and impartiality and is stalled and unable to continue on its path to a just and free society. It would be exhausting here and now to enumerate the situations of the past and the present!

You do not need to question me about the evidence of acts of corruption perpetrated by a corrupt and power-hungry elite. The evidence is in Timor-Leste, it is enough to want and be able to follow its trail .... money leaves traces and marks and can easily identify the agents and beneficiaries of corruption .. Take the projects, study the moments of their conception, the actors on all sides, and see the disparity between objectives and results, which invariably focus on enriching this elite, always on the royal blessing of infamous leadership.

I leave some clues:

Electricity project (whose documents and evidence were hand-delivered to Mr José Neves, then Commissioner in the CAC, by an adviser ... who later obtained a contract in the CAC as a "prize" for silence). The entire energy project in Timor-Leste is damaged by acts of corruption, which have consumed and consumed huge financial resources that nearly tripled its real cost. The tangle of relationships in the mud that has been constituted around the development of the infrastructures of the project, well investigated, exposes an entire elite that like the limpet is perpetuated in the power developing the tentacles to the style of criminal organization mafia, with its padrinho and acolytes that are not confined to Timor-Leste, extending to gluttons in several countries that suck everything around them. By purging this toxic and corrupt garbage, Timor Lorosae will finally come to fruition!

Get the Bobby B. Boye case. Why in Timor-Leste, instead of being arrested when they should, ignored the timely warnings, and rewarded him with recognition awards for the high services rendered! But that did not stop justice being done, Bobby B. Boye was arrested ... but much remained unclear!

The largest research ever done in the health field began in November 2010 at the CAC. In the absence of the will of CAC and MP, the investigation continued in the Netherlands, England, the United States and Australia. Result: $ 240 million in assets recovered and several individuals detained, from World Bank staff and a hospital equipment distribution company. Nothing happened in Timor-Leste .... But I could and should have led this work, giving the world and especially the Timorese a positive signal that it was committed to the fight against corruption!

What a sad fate ... the Timorese follow their heroes who today are their rulers, elected by what they insist on calling democracy. Despite the pain that they cause and even exclude, without fair and equitable access to the distribution of wealth that the country has, denying them access to education, health, housing, security, and dignity of human condition, continue from the side of the streets waiting for the magnanimous acts of their heroes, content with the crumbs and sacks of rice ...

That said, I do not want to say that I have not abandoned or left the Timorese, especially those who trusted in me and with whom I have eternal bonds of friendship and gratitude. However, they are not available to enter the mire or contribute to triggering situations of personal attacks that are not intended to disqualify me and the anti-corruption cause as a way to divert attention from the problems that corruption generates.

My contribution to the necessary struggle of Timorese will soon be made available in book form, where everything is exposed, transparently denuded.

It is up to the Timorese to reflect and create conditions for Justice to act through its instruments, so that society becomes more just and equitable! It is in Justice and with Justice that I know and can contribute so that all Timorese can benefit from their due!

It is up to the international community, in particular those