Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski said on Wednesday (23), that the retirees were “easy victims” of billionaire fraud at the National Institute of Social Security (INSS).
According to the Federal Police (PF) operation, associative discounts were identified in pensions that were not authorized. These amounts are paid monthly to entities and unions that represent retirees and pensioners. Any discount must have prior authorization from the beneficiary to happen. The only exception is for cases involving court decision.
in the period between 2019 and 2024, according to the investigators calculation.
“It is, therefore, a retirees protection operation, it was a fraud against retirees, people who are already in a naturally weakened phase of life and were victims, let’s say, easy for these criminals who appropriated pensions and pensions,” Lewandowski said.
The minister also pointed out that the operation is special but not extraordinary, and that it “inserts itself into the set of operations in the Ministry of Justice against organized crime”.
Operation
Approximately 700 federal police officers and 80 CGU servants served 211 search and seizure warrants, sequestration orders of more than R $ 1 billion and six temporary arrest warrants in the Federal District and 13 states: Alagoas, Amazonas, Ceará, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Sul, Sao Paulo and Sergipe.
According to Lewandowski, luxury cars, cash, jewelry and paintings were seized. Furthermore,
