Overview

• Federal Police and the CGU executed 66 search-and-seizure warrants across eight states and the Federal District under authorization from Supreme Court Justice André Mendonça.
• Targets include the National Retirees’ Union (Sindnapi) and its president, Milton Baptista de Souza Filho; Frei Chico, the union’s vice president and the president’s brother, is not under investigation.
• Investigators describe a scheme using front associations, forged signatures and illicit enrollment to dock benefits, with proceeds allegedly laundered through companies and luxury assets.
• Authorities estimate about R$6.3 billion in improper deductions from 2019 to 2024, and earlier arrests included Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes (“Careca do INSS”) and businessman Maurício Camisotti.
• The CPMI set to vote on breaking bank and telecom secrecy for lawyer Paulo Boudens after reports of a R$3 million transfer from Arpar, while Sindnapi’s president is scheduled to testify and the union’s defense asserts lawful conduct.