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Carlos Roberto Costa (Rio de Janeiro, 14 September 1963), known as Carlos Costa, is a Brazilian businessman, best known for being one of the owners and the spokesman of Telexfree, company accused by the Public Prosecutor of Acre State, in Brazil and SEC in US, to form and operates a billionaire pyramid scheme,involving more than 1 million people. The prosecutions have been filled in righteous acts of Brazil and the USA.

A resident of Vila Velha, in the Espirito Santo state in Brazil, he is considered by the SEC authorities as one of the founders of the Telexfree company. (12) (13) (14) He came to hold a 30% stake of Telexfree LLC, - the US branch of the company - but later he sold its share to one of his partners, Mr. James Matthew Merrill,  remaining with only a stake of the Brazilian subsidiary, know as Ympactus Commercial. (10) (15) In Ympactus, in addition to owner, Costa is also presented as director of marketing. He is responsible for presenting the Shifts Ympactus or Telexfree, videos posted on YouTube to pass information to the members on the progress of the business. Carlos Costa is a candidate for federal deputy, in the elections of 2014, by the Holy Spirit. (10) (16) In its campaign, Carlos Costa says trying to legalise the Multi-level Marketing, although this activity is already legalized in Brazil, being prohibited the practice of financial pyramid. (16)

Carlos Costa is the target of various accusations in Brazil. He is accused in public civil action open by the Public Prosecutor of Acre against the Telexfree and had its assets frozen by decision of judge of Acre, Thais Khalil. Carlos Costa is also investigated in the Holy Spirit in a survey conducted by the Federal Police  for a crime against the people's economy. The right in the ES are in secrecy of justice. Recently, Carlos Costa took two cars pledged by a judge of Ashkelon, in the Holy Spirit, to payment of advisers of Telexfree. . In its public statements, Carlos Costa denied the accusations, claiming that the Telexfree operates by model of Multi-level Marketing.

The director is also being target of Federal Revenue. The component has denounced the Telexfree and Carlos Costa to the Federal Court, in the Holy Spirit , by the non-payment of taxes. The process is secret of Justice, but in accordance with decision published in the Official Gazette  of Acre, the 4TH Pole of Federal Fiscal Executions, the Holy Spirit, decreed a new unavailability of goods of Costa. (20)

Investigations in Brazil
In Brazil, the investigations against the Telexfree and Carlos Costa began in January 2013 and brought to the forefront  the possible greatest coup of pyramid of Brazil's history. (21) (22) (23) (24)The criminal investigation to investigate the fraud against the popular economy, money laundering , racketeering, and other fraud was opened by the Public Prosecutor of the Holy Spirit and sent to the Police Station of Defraudações and Falsification (Defa). (19)

The Police Station has led various steps and came to ask the detention of Carlos Costa and other members of the company, Charles Nathaniel Wanzeler and James Merrill, but the request was not accepted by Justice State of the Holy Spirit. (25) (26)

On 9 July, Carlos Costa was called to testify and was more than two hours by providing testimony to one of the delegates  of the Defa. At the time, the person responsible for oitiva said that he could not say the contents of declarations of Costa not to disrupt the investigation. (27) (28) (29)

In August, the inquiry into the involvement of Carlos Costa in possible coup of Telexfree was integrated with a procedure of the Federal Police  , although remain registered in State Justice. From that moment it was decreed the confidentiality of investigations. (30)

In Acre, in addition to the public civil action, Costa was also subject to a police investigation and came to ask the Justice of that State a habeas corpus preventive measure to avoid being arrested. (31) (32) Carlos Costa often makes statements in public hearings or videos on YouTube, that the company was created by "God": "I'm here for passage and God I used to do what I did and that nobody will take," said Costa in Addressing the Aleac. (33) (34) (35).

Application
In July 2014, Carlos Costa registered his candidacy for the post of member of the federal state of the Holy Spirit , by Republican Party Progressive (PRP), under the banner  of "legalise the Multi-level Marketing ". (36) (37) (38) (39) (40)

The media has pointed out that, if Carlos Costa is elected, even being investigated for a crime of financial pyramid, will gain privileged forum. (37) Even being investigated, he was not seen in the context of the Law of Clean connector because it has not yet been sentenced. If up to the election, the Federal Police and the Public Prosecutor does not offer complaint against him, if Carlos Costa earn the vacancy for the position of Mr, the investigation should be transferred to the Federal Supreme Court (STF). If the complaint has already been judged by the diplomação, the STF will also further the analysis of criminal proceedings. The entrepreneur could also, if the Cut get any proceedings against him, to waive the mandate to be judged as ordinary citizens - which would have delayed the progress of the case. (10) (39)

Before the accusations against the owners of Telexfree both in Brazil and in the United States, in April 2014 , Carlos Costa, along with his partner Carlos Wanzeler, hired the lawyer criminalista Antonio Carlos de Almeida Castro, Kakay, known for defending accused of Mensalão. Second Kakay, the criminal case, conducted by the Federal Police, is still  being investigated. (41) (42)

Declaration of goods
According to the statements in application form, Carlos Costa is one of the candidates more rich to public office in Elections 2014. The Holy Spirit, he is only behind the entrepreneur Camilo Glue, patriarch of the Group Itapemirim. (43) (36) (44)

The Electoral Justice, Costa presented a declaration of assets of R$ 13,542,568 .43. (45)Between assets are three apartments, one in district Itapoã, in Vila Velha, the value of R$ 1.1 million. The site was the same where, in May 2014, program staff Fantastic, TV Globo, attempted an interview with the entrepreneur. (46)

In addition, blocked the Righteous Acts of the State of Acre and Federal of Holy Spirit , Carlos Costa presented two cars - a Kia Sorento EX 3.5 G17, year 2012, in the amount of R $ 132 thousand, and a Mercedes-Benz SLK 250 Turbo, year 2012, in the amount of R  $ 219 thousand - which have been pledged by a judge of Ashkelon, the Holy Spirit , for the payment of  associated Telexfree who have invested in the business  and failed to recover the applications. (18)

In the declaration of goods, Carlos Costa claims to have pegado borrowed R$ 1.5 million with the daughter Leticia Costa, of 20 years, who is a student of Law, in a private school in Vila Velha. (47) (36)

He also says it is owner of R$ 300 thousand in quotas of capital of the company Ympactus Commercial, and have R$ 2 million in the company Voxbras (SImternet Information Technology ), of GuangZhou, which was bought by Telexfree. In June 2014, so that the Commercial Ympactus was blocked, the Justice of Acre accused Telexfree attempting to divert almost R$ 100 million to accounts of Voxbras and other related company of Telexfree, the Disk Will. (48) (49) (50) (51) (52)

Allegations in the United States
The accusations against the Telexfree in the United States, Carlos Costa, although not defendant in action, is cited in administrative action opened by secretary of the Division of Securities of Massachusetts, William Francis Galvin. In the document, there is information that after the blockade of Telexfree in Brazil, Carlos Wanzeler, the other partner of the company , transferred $3 million to accounts of Carlos Costa. (13) (53) (54)

The document, published in April 15, 2014, further explains that Carlos Costa was a partner in the  Telexfree LLC, registered in Nevada, in the United States , however, which left the company later, selling their share to partner James Merrill. (14) (10)

In its complaint against the Telexfree in the United States, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also cites Carlos Costa as one of the designers of the  coup. The document, April 17, 2014, says that it was his idea to recruit people to publish advertisements on the internet. Carlos Costa was an employee of the company Disk the desire of ownership of Carlos Wanzeler. According to the ESA, Costa was the best recruiter of company. (14)

After the complaints in the United States, Carlos Costa posted Youtube videos attacking the press and saying that the Telexfree was being persecuted by the media. He did not explain the reasons for investigations in the USA, and reported that the company would show his innocence. (55)

Contradictions
In July 2013, soon after the action threshold of Acre against the Telexfree, Carlos Costa issued a video stating that had signed a supposed contract with Mapfre Insurance, supposedly guaranteeing the investment advisers and the legality of the company. "Your business will be ensured. You that is 100% Telexfree also will be 100% safe ," says Costa in the video. "Do You think that the Mapfre would make the insurance for something that was not 100% legal? Of course not. ( ... ) Personal, is the legality of our company." (56) (57) (58) (59) (60) (61) (62) In response, Mapfre has issued a note on its website, stating that the contract was false.

Costa mentioned that the alleged contract with Mapfre and another insurer had been "approved by SUSEP (Superintendency of Private Insurance ) . (62) The SUSEP denied having approved any hiring process  of insurance by  Telexfree: "We do not know any type of contact this company with the municipality ", informed the component. The SUSEP also claimed does not have competence to give or deny consent to agreements between  customers and insurers. (63) (64).

Another controversy involving Carlos Costa was on a conciliation proposal with the Public Prosecutor in the Acre. Costa said that the prosecution did not accept that the company took the reimbursement of the amounts  invested by the members. However, the Public Prosecutor has contradicted the entrepreneur in public note, stating that, at the hearing of conciliation, the component proposed repayment of investors, but Carlos Costa refused the proposal made by the institution. (65) (66) (67)

Other companies
Prior to founding Telexfree, Carlos Costa participated in several business, some of the sector  of multi-level marketing. He was director of marketing for Disk Will - company of Carlos Wanzeler, headquartered in Victory, who worked with the sale of VoIP through the system of network marketing. Carlos Costa also assembled a business called Time Click - an auction site on the internet - with the company Ympactus Commercial, before transforming it into Telexfree. (68)

Personal Life
According to documents submitted to the Electoral Register of the Holy Spirit, Carlos Costa is married and has completed high school. (69) (70) (71)