Newly affiliated with the former president’s PL, deputy Alfredo Gaspar (AL) sought to link those investigated in the INSS CPI to the Lula (PT) government, with several citations to the PT member in his report, while practically ignoring the .
Bolsonaro’s name appears five times in the 4,340 pages of the report, apart from mentions in reports reproduced in the document or transcripts of statements to the CPI. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is mentioned 37 times, excluding mentions in testimonies, journalistic articles or mentions of his two sons, brother and ex-daughter-in-law.
Former attorney general of the Public Ministry, Gaspar joined Bolsonaro’s party this Thursday (26), with the aim of running for the Senate or the government of Alagoas. The event included a photo alongside Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), an opponent of the PT member.
The CPI’s role was to investigate fraud from 2015 to 2025, and the rapporteur highlighted that fraud had already existed before that period. But the document — which needs to be approved by the commission to be valid — focuses the accusations mainly on the current PT government.
made in retirements comes from previous governments, but reached billion-dollar levels after 2022, exploding during the Lula government.
“You can invent whatever narrative you want, but the numbers don’t lie. In the current government, criminal organizations felt free to improve their techniques and occupy key positions in social security management. Without limits, they even co-opted the son of the President of the Republic Fábio Luís: it was the certainty of impunity”, he wrote.
In certain passages, Gaspar contradicted himself. In the introduction, when listing measures adopted during the Bolsonaro government, he argued that the previous administration “profoundly changed the rules regarding associative discounts”. “The rules for obtaining associative discounts have become stricter”, he stated.
Later, however, he listed decrees and internal changes from the same period that would have weakened the system and stated that the management of the former Social Security Secretary and former INSS president Leonardo Rolim “represented the inflection point that allowed the undue discount scheme to stop being an isolated practice and become a model of systemic exploitation”.
In this case, it does not mention Bolsonaro, the former minister of or the former special secretary of Social Security and Labor Rogério Marinho (PL-RN), current leader of the opposition in the Senate. Marinho is not mentioned in the report.
When qualifying authorities who participated in PT administrations, however, the document highlights this relationship, saying, for example, that an advisor participated in the “first Lula government” or that senator Weverton Rocha (PDT-MA), investigated for allegedly acting to shield one of the entities that defrauded the INSS, is “current deputy leader of the Lula government in the Federal Senate”.
When it comes to former INSS benefits director André Félix Fidelis, the document highlights that he was “politically appointed by senator Weverton Rocha with the specific objective of shielding the scheme”. When talking about former INSS presidents from the Lula government, the report makes it clear that they were appointed “by minister Carlos Lupi as part of the PDT quota”. Gaspar asks for the three to be indicted.
Bolsonaro was also practically omitted when dealing with former Social Security Minister José Carlos Oliveira, currently renamed Ahmed Mohamad Oliveira, who is the “institutional pillar” of the scheme and who is wearing an electronic ankle bracelet. He is the only former Bolsonaro minister that the rapporteur suggested indicting. He denied participation in fraud to the CPI.
Regarding the former Minister of Social Security and Labor Onyx Lorenzoni (PL), the rapporteur pointed out that he received an electoral donation of R$60,000 and nominated Oliveira, but avoided indictment and suggested further investigations by the police and Public Ministry. Onyx says she didn’t know the donor.
LULINHA
The rapporteur also made him the week before the Sheetwhen he said he would not suggest the indictment of businessman Fábio Luís Lula da Silva, his son.
Days earlier, the president of the CPI, senator Carlos Viana (Pode-MG), stated in an interview that the commission had not been able to prove payments to Lulinha and found transfers only to the businesswoman who had paid for luxury trips for the former president’s son.
The CPI report, however, from Metrópoles, Estado de S. Paulo and the Sheet to say that Lulinha had trips paid for by Roberta with money from lobbyist Antonio Carlos Camilo Antunes, known as Careca do , and that a former employee of his had reported payments of R$300,000 per month to the ex-president’s son.
Gaspar also used information from a minister, from the (Supreme Federal Court), published on the Poder 360 website, which authorized Lulinha’s breach of confidentiality to deepen the investigations, to defend the indictment. This document was not formally delivered to the CPI.
The alleged crimes listed, however, are not related to deviations in the INSS, but to “the possibility that Fábio Luís used his prestige as the son of the President of the Republic to facilitate the access of Antônio Camilo and Roberta Luchsinger to Federal government bodies, notably the Ministry of Health and Anvisa [Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária]”.
The report called for the punishment of 216 people, but Lulinha has the most space: it is 12 pages long, although the document does not indicate any relationship between the president’s son and pension fraud.
Central figures in the alleged scheme, such as former presidents of the INSS, directors of entities benefiting from embezzlement or federal deputies who received payments from those being investigated, had their criminal conduct listed on a maximum of five pages.
Lulinha was also one of the few in the report that Gaspar made a point of reading all the pages of the indictment request during the CPI session, this Friday (27). In most cases, he only read the name and alleged crimes at the request of other parliamentarians to save time.
The president’s son is also the only one mentioned by name with a request for preventive detention in the report. In the previous paragraph, Gaspar already generically requested that the Federal Senate’s Advocacy Office contact the competent judicial authorities so that all those whom the CPI requests to be indicted are preventively arrested.
