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CPMI Intensifies INSS Fraud Inquiry, Grills CGU Minister and Expands Summonses, Secrecy Breaks

The investigation targets a scheme that drained an estimated R$6.3–8 billion from retirees through falsified association discounts.

Overview

  • Lawmakers hear CGU minister Vinícius Marques de Carvalho at the commission’s 13th session and take up 97 requests that include subpoenas, document demands and new data-access measures.
  • The committee approved the summons of ex-INSS procurator Virgílio Filho, his wife Thaisa Hoffmann Jonasson and his sister, and authorized telematic secrecy breaks tied to alleged transfers of R$11.9 million, R$7.5 million and a luxury car.
  • Investigators treat Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes, the “Careca do INSS,” as a central operator who moved R$53 million and sent over R$9.3 million to people linked to the INSS, with the PF detailing seized luxury vehicles to the CPMI and an STF majority maintaining his preventive detention.
  • CGU informed the CPMI it opened nine procedures against INSS staff—one disciplinary case, seven asset inquiries and one preliminary probe—using Coaf intelligence, while the INSS internal affairs unit launched additional administrative cases.
  • A newly reported memo of an August 2024 CGUINSS meeting shows a CGU official advising a “positive agenda” to manage fallout when audit findings were released, an exchange now drawing scrutiny from the commission.