Waller Júnior replaces former President Alessandro Stefanutto, who resigned amid a court order that decreed his departure from office
Federal Prosecutor Gilberto Waller Júnior, corregedor of the Federal Attorney General’s Office, an agency of the Attorney General of the Union (AGU), was appointed on Wednesday (30), as new president of the National Institute of Social Security (). Waller Junior replaces the former president, who resigned in the midst of a court order that decreed his removal from office.
Stefanutto’s departure came after the Federal Police () triggered an operation to investigate a fraudulent scheme of undue discounts on the benefits of INSS retirees and pensioners. According to an official note from the Secretariat of Social Communication (Secom), Waller Júnior’s appointment was determined to the Substitute Chief of the Civil House, Miriam Belchior, by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The new president of the INSS is a Bachelor of Legal and Social Sciences, with a postgraduate degree in combating corruption and money laundering. He entered began his public career as an INSS prosecutor in 1998, occupied the positions of corregedor general of the Institute from 2001 to 2004 and Deputy Attorney General from 2007 to 2008.
In the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU), he was a general ombudsman from the Union from March 2016 to January 2019 and the Union Corregedor-General from 2019 to 2023. Today, he occupies the position of corregedor of the Federal Attorney General, agency of AGU.
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Nátaly Tenório
