Police investigation points out that Virgílio Antônio Ribeiro de Oliveira Filho had a ‘heritage increase’ of R $ 18 million from the group that would be at the center of the fraud of the retired illegal discounts scheme
The former chief prosecutor of the National Institute of Social Security () Virgílio Antônio Ribeiro de Oliveira Filho tried to buy a luxury car valued at R $ 380 thousand just over a month after the operation of the one that removed him from office. According to a report of the Financial Activities Control Board () delivered to that of the INSS, which investigates the scheme of illegal discounts to retirees, the former server requested the bank a reserve to purchase Audi A5 Sedan Performance S Edition.
The request made by him fell on the banking “daily monitoring” of May 28 this year. A, from the Federal Police, went to the streets on April 23. With this, a warning was generated to Coaf, who receives bank communications about suspicious movements. The document does not specify whether the vehicle was purchased or not. Young Pan’s space is open to any demonstration of the former attorney.
“At this point, the client is removed by the court of his position and claimed to the PF that he used relatives to receive lobbyist values and firms linked to entities under suspicion in the INSS. We understood by communication due to the position that the client occupied and was removed and the reasons for this removal are reflected in investigations of the INSS federal police fraud,” says the report.
Virgílio was one of the five INSS directors dismissed by the court decision that launched the Federal Police -free operation on April 23. The government officially removed him from office on the same day. The police investigation points out that the then prosecutor had a “heritage increase” of $ 18 million from the group that would be in the center of the fraud. The transfers would have occurred through companies and bank accounts of his wife. Among the referrals of the money, Antonio Carlos Camilo Antunes, O, pointed out as one of the main articulators of the scheme.
The INSS CPI approved, on Thursday (2), the call of Virgílio Oliveira Filho to give testimony, which has no date to occur.
Virgílio Oliveira Filho was appointed to the position of Attorney General of the INSS for the first time in 2020, under the government of the former President of the Republic (PL), and remained in office until 2022, when he began to act as a legal advisor to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. In September 2023, already under the government of the President of the Republic, Virgílio was renamed the Attorney General’s Office.
Payments would be a counterpart to edit opinions that would ensure the continuity of improper charges directly on the payroll of retirees and pensioners.
*With information from Estadão Content
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