The Federal Police (PF) identified, in the context of the operation that investigates fraud at the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), that some associations that made discounts on retirement and pensions did not even have adequate physical structure and compatible with the actions of capture, affiliation and compliance with the number of registered associates.
“Considering its spatial distribution above all, since they have associates, as a rule, throughout the national territory, a situation identified on a visit to the headquarters of these entities and from interviews with responsible for the entities or their interlocutors,” says the report.
In consultation with the data of the annual social information relationship (RAIS), with information until 2021, and the General Register of Employees and Unemployed (CAGED), 2022 and 2023 exercises, it was found that five of the eight sample associations had no employees in 2021 and one of them had three employees in the rais of that year.
“Comparing the amount of the workforce of these entities with the number of associates linked to them, and considering the territorial distribution of the locations where they reside, there is no doubt about the possibility of operational care, even to capture and process the large number of affiliations in so many municipalities or to provide services to these associates,” he adds.
The PF document also points out that some entities have leaders or administrators with profile incompatible with the function; In addition to having façade representatives and potential conflict of interest in attending INSS directors to assembly and events held by the associations.
“Associations that have advanced -age presidents, which could compromise their actions ahead of the entity, permanent disability retirement beneficiaries and/or without formal employment experience, which may indicate eventual impairment of entities management capacity,” concludes the text.
