Overview

• Agents from the Federal Police and CGU carried out searches across multiple states and the Federal District, including 45 in São Paulo and 12 in Sergipe, under orders from Justice André Mendonça.
• Addresses tied to the National Retirees’ Union (SINDNAPI) in São Paulo were searched, and its president Milton Baptista de Souza Filho was targeted, while vice-president José “Frei Chico” Ferreira was not listed as a target.
• Investigators seized high-value assets such as a Ferrari, several Porsches, a Ducati motorcycle, cash, luxury watches and a firearm at locations linked to suspected operators.
• The inquiry focuses on shell associations, falsified signatures and alleged bribes to INSS staff to insert unauthorized discounts, with PF also zeroing in on ‘laranjas’ in Sergipe and money-laundering companies in Rio Grande do Norte.
• In parallel, the INSS CPMI broke the bank and tax secrecy of SINDNAPI’s president and his wife, sought Coaf reports and blocked an attempt to target a Senate aide, as earlier arrests of ‘Careca do INSS’ and Maurício Camisotti frame the ongoing case.