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Manguinhos Refinery Site Seized by Federal Government and Scheduled for Auction

The electronic sale is meant to recover part of Refit’s multibillion‑real tax debt after courts and police froze assets linked to the group.

Overview

  • The União moved to execute Refit and a federal judge authorized public auctioneer Leonardo Schulmann to sell the Manguinhos refinery land in a court-ordered sale.
  • The property was appraised at R$23,537,852.10 and the judge fixed a minimum bid of 50% of that value, about R$11,768,926.05.
  • The court set multiple exclusively electronic hasta dates with the first auction scheduled for September 9, 2026.
  • The seized lot covers nearly 600,000 square meters and includes refinery tanks, pipelines, operational units and administrative buildings.
  • The sale is only one enforcement measure in a broader probe that froze roughly R$52 billion linked to Refit and left state and federal investigations, including criminal and regulatory actions, still underway.