Social Security Minister Wolney Queiroz said on Thursday that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) recommended that the government go to the last consequences with deviation investigations at the National Institute of Social Security (INSS). He participates in the program Good morning, ministerof the Brazil Communication Company (EBC).
Wolney said the Federal Police are investigating the case, but stated that they have no privileged information. He said he learned of operations and new phases of the inquiry along with the press.
Another recommendation of Lula for the minister, he said, was to propagate on TV and radio that retirees injured in the fraud of undue discounts in the benefits should seek compensation: “The government wants to pay.”
The government issued a Provisional Measure (MP) opening extraordinary credit of R $ 3.31 billion to enable the reimbursement and accelerate the return of the amounts diverted in INSS fraud.
