CPMI Sets Hearings for Ex-INSS Coordinator and Businessman as Pension-Discount Probe Deepens

Overview

• The congressional panel scheduled testimony for former INSS payments coordinator Jucimar Fonseca da Silva, considered central to the scheme, with an official evaluation pending after he submitted a medical note.
• Businessman Thiago Schettini, described by investigators as a facilitator, was also called to testify, with probes citing transfers from Antonio Carlos Camilo Antunes, known as Careca do INSS.
• The fourth phase of the Federal Police’s Sem Desconto operation last week arrested former INSS chief Alessandro Stefanutto and eight others over alleged illicit associative discounts.
• Police records reported by O Globo allege Stefanutto received monthly payments from Conafer to favor the entity within the INSS, an accusation his defense rejects as it calls the arrest illegal.
• Supreme Court Justice André Mendonça ordered a freeze of about R$390 million in assets tied to the union Sindnapi, and some CPMI members say the inquiry could extend to figures such as Senator Weverton Rocha and former minister Carlos Lupi pending further PF steps.