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An investigation from Federal police revealed how a criminal group used facade pharmacies in various regions of the Brazil To deflect millions from the program Popular pharmacy and launder traffic money and finance the purchase of cocaine in Bolivia and no Peru.
Almost R $ 40 million of the program were diverted by the criminal organization, points out investigation from the PF.
The fraud involved the use of CPFs and addresses of innocent people, in addition to the purchase and sale of Cnpjs by oranges. The tracks began to emerge with the seizure of drugs in LUZIANIA (GO)but soon expanded to other states as Goiás, Pernambuco, Minas Gerais, São Paulo e Rio Grande do Sul.
Em Águas Lindas (GO)the community of Dam Portal found that two pharmacies that never officially existed would have received almost R$ 500 mil of the program.
“It’s a tremendous slutty, right? We live here for five years and suddenly he learned that at this address lived a pharmacy that received R$ 329 mil. It’s too much, right? ”, Revolves a resident. Despite the documentation, residents guarantee that there were never pharmacies at the addresses.
The step by step of the investigation
The scheme began to be unraveled when the Federal police seized 191 pounds of drugs with a trucker who had left Rondônia. Part of the load was delivered in Ribeirão Preto (SP)and the rest was left in Luziâniawhere it would be received by CLAYTON SOARES DA SILVAowner of pharmacies in Rio Grande do Sul and in Pernambuco.
A PF It states that these pharmacies were also part of the embezzlement scheme. Clayton And the truck driver were arrested in the act, and on the businessman’s cell phone were found documents and messages that revealed the operation of the group.
From there, the police arrived until FERNANDO BATISTA DA SILVAknown as “FERNANDO PARILHO”, Pointed out as head of the organization. According to the investigation, he used his daughter’s name to start companies and move money without raising suspicions. One of the companies, Constructwould have received more than R$ 500 mil of people investigated or trapped by trafficking.
A PF states that Fernando had connection with members of the Red command and that the group passed money on people in cities near the border with the Peru and Bolivia.
Among the beneficiaries is the wife of a member of the Clã CisnerosPeruvian criminal organization that operates cocaine laboratories. The lawyer of Fernando denies your customer’s involvement.
“This criminal organization used the program Popular pharmacy to wash these features. Subsequently, she started using this social program to invest in her own drug trafficking, ”says José Roberto Peressuperintendent of PF do Federal district.
The connection between trafficking and fraud became even more evident when researchers discovered pharmacies recorded in empty lots, such as one that would work on a bush with a bush, using telephone number João Pessoa (PB). The number was Célia Aparecida de Carvalhopointed out as a supplier of Cnpjs for the scheme.
Fraud in Popular Pharmacy
The program Popular pharmacy Provides free medications or up to 90% off the population. To have access, the patient must present a prescription, CPF and photo document.
“Every day we fight around 140,000 attempts at irregular authorizations in the program,” he said Rafael Bruxellas Parradirector of National Audit Department of your.
The dentist Gustavoof Sumaré (SP)it was one of the victims of fraud. When accessing the Connect yourrealized that your CPF had been used to remove up to 20 monthly insulin boxes. “I’m not diabetic, I never had any kind of health problem,” he said.
The false delivery was recorded in Campo Belo (MG)na Drugstore PHS Limited. Police found that the alleged buyer was Francisca Ferreira de Souzamaid registered as owner of five pharmacies in different states.
Francisca lives in a simple home in Luziâniabut on paper it moved almost R$ 500 mil with the Minas Gerais pharmacy. Is married to BRAZILINO INÁCIO DOS SANTOSalso investigated for being a partner of ten companies. Between 2018 and 2019, together, these companies moved R $ 2.5 million.
A PF investigates if the money was passed on to FERNANDO PARILHO. The investigation shows that Célia Aparecida Carvalho negotiated pharmacies with Adriano Rezende Rodrigueso Adriano Tatu – One of the drugstores of which Third It is a partner, in CERQUILHO (SP)received almost R $ 1 million do Popular pharmacy.
In this web of transfers, registrations, deviations and drug trafficking, about 160 thousand CPFs They were used by the gang, with 148 real or facade pharmacies.
Scheme led by criminal organization diverted almost R $ 40 million in public funds using innocent CPFs – Photo: Reproduction/Fantastic
