This Friday Antonio Carlos Camilo Antunes, known as “Bald of the INSS”, accused of being one of the main articulators of the deviation scheme of retirees and pensioners. According to the investigation, he moved R $ 12.2 million in bank accounts within 129 days, just over four months.
Antunes is cited by the PF as the central figure of the supposed scheme of undue discounts on retirement and pensions of the institute.
Their companies operated as financial intermediaries for associative entities, according to the investigation documentation. His defense stated that the accusations do not correspond to the reality of the facts.
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The police points out that the entrepreneur made “transfers on the same day of receipt, maintaining a unique balance available, indicating possible urgency in hindering the tracking of values.”
Who he is
The PF says Antunes is “a member of a myriad of companies”, which received funds from various associations and made them available to employees from the National Institute of Social Security. According to the police representation, he directly moved R $ 53.5 million from union entities and companies related to associations.
There are 22 two companies listed on their behalf, in the branches of consulting, call center, incorporation, retailer and wholesale and vehicle leasing. Part of these companies was used in relations with entities that received the discounted values of retirement, according to the PF.
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Luxury fleet
According to PF, Antunes owns a 12 -cars fleet like Porsche and BMW. He also has properties in Sao Paulo and Brasilia, including a house in Lago Sul, a prime neighborhood of the federal capital – which he would have bought in cash, in the amount of R $ 3.3 million, according to documents of the investigation.
The entrepreneur also appears as a legal representative of a firm based on the British Virgin Islands. “It is possibly an offshore consisting of Antonio Carlos, in order to shield the illegitimate heritage covered,” police said.
The “Bald of the INSS” built its professional curriculum around health performances. On the LinkedIn platform, he presents himself only as director of one of his consulting firms that represents a company in the area.
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Antonio says he has been acting for nine years representing the pharmaceutical industry in the supplementary health market and public market, and two years ahead of a laboratory that provided medicines to the Ministry of Health.
He also says he was commercial and marketing superintendent of a health plan. “Organized competence, dedication and effort are part of my daily life,” he says. The man also says he was commercial director of a state public laboratory. He also presents himself as former Marketing Superintendent of a loan health sector.
Antunes, 61, is pointed out as a representative “lobbyist of entities” who discount retirement and pensions.
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In one of the reports, the researchers also point out that he is a partner of several companies of a specific purpose company (SPE), “which hold their own legal personality, in order to shield controlling partners.” All CNPJs of this type are located in the same address in Brasilia, have the same phone and registered under the same activity: “Purchase and sale of their own properties”.
Despite the nickname “Bald of the INSS”, he was never an employee of the agency and constituted most of these companies in the same period as the transfers arising from the associative entities and their intermediates, according to the investigators.
“He has power of attorney to act on behalf of several entities that charge retirees’ associative tuition fees. In these power of attorney, it is explained that he has received powers to act with the INSS, specifically to maintain or establish technical cooperation agreements,” says the PF.
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One of these power of attorney is one of the fastest growing entities during the INSS-managed retirement discounts, “taking advantage of these discounts to get advantages within the federal agency”, according to the PF. One of Antonio’s companies received R $ 11.9 million from one of the associations he had power of attorney, between August 2023 and April 2024.
What the defense says
The lawyers claim that Antunes’ innocence will be proved. “The defense fully trusts in the determination of the elements contained in the case and the performance of the institutions of the Democratic Rule of Law. Throughout the process, Antonio’s innocence will be duly proven,” says the note.
The scheme investigated by the police and the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) involved the unauthorized discount of associative monthly fee in retirement and pensions, with the deviation of money to people linked to these entities and the directors of the INSS.
Movements higher than income, says PF
According to PF, Antunes declared his professional occupation as a “manager”, with monthly income of R $ 24.5 thousand and equity between R $ 1 million and R $ 5 million. “Nevertheless, Antonio Carlos’s movements are much superior to his hypothetical income, totaling millions of reais in credits and debts. For more,” their corporate participation and the declared financial capacity are disproportionate to busy amounts, “he said.
According to the investigation, Antunes passed R $ 17 million to INSS servers. The PF also states that it had other relevant transactions, such as the successive transmission of the same property in less than six months that generated the movement of R $ 353 million.
