CPMI Do INSS Hears Onyx Lorenzoni Today

Overview

• The joint congressional inquiry scheduled Lorenzoni’s testimony for after a 9 a.m. vote in Plenary 2 of the Nilo Coelho Wing at the Senate in Brasília.
• Senators and deputies invited Lorenzoni following media reports cited by Randolfe Rodrigues that he allegedly received a large donation from a representative tied to suspected discount schemes affecting retirees and pensioners.
• Before the testimony, members planned to vote on 186 requests, including a face-off between lawyer Eli Cohen and businessman Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes, known as “Careca do INSS,” and a move to summon Andre Piacentini Arnus of BMG Corretora de Seguros.
• The commission, chaired by Senator Carlos Viana, broadened its scope to hear all former Previdência ministers and ex-INSS directors from 2015 onward to map responsibility for irregular discounts and consignado fraud.
• Lorenzoni led the Labour and Previdência portfolio from July 2021 to March 2022 in the Bolsonaro administration, and his hearing unfolds within an inquiry that has already produced arrests and surprise depositions.