An investigation from the Federal District and Territories Public Prosecution Service (MPDFT) and the Civil Police of the DF (PCDF) concluded, in 2021, that the National Confederation of Family Farmers and Rural Family Entrepreneurs (Conafer) took advantage the closure of INSS agencies during the Covid-19 pandemic to profit with illegal discounts on Retirement paychecks.
The investigation points out that, Confer promoted the inclusion of 73,108 new discounts In social security benefits, that is, approximately 610 new affiliates per day.
“The total beneficiaries who suffer discounts on the contribution to Conofer add up to the unbelievable 256,810,” concluded the coordination of repression of crimes against the consumer, the tax order and fraud.
Police stressed at the time that authorizations for such discounts do not exist. “The authors took advantage of the emergency closure of the INSS agencies, starting in March 2020, to roar the improper discounts, inducing the and the INSS to error. ”
In 2020, the investigators asked the Association to deliver documents on membership of associates.
The entity, however, failed to send such documents claiming that, by virtue of the pandemic, the staggered work regime of its staff impaired immediate care to the requested.
The following year, PCDF and MPDFT even asked for an authorization for an operation against the investigated, but the DF court denied and sent the case to the Federal Court and the Federal Police, which carried out operation last month against 11 entities. Among them, Conafer.
This Friday (16), the CNN Showed that Conafer, now the target of the Federal Police and CGU, is the most increased entity, in absolute numbers, discounts on INSS retirement and pensions between 2019 and 2024. R$ 400 mil to
The report sought Conafer to comment on the complaints, but had no return.
