Analyzes financial movements on deviations in order to find out if Fábio Luís da Silva, the , was. The investigators, however, want to avoid a broader investigation, which could be interpreted as an investigation into the son of the President of the Republic.
Lulinha had his orders by order of the minister, of the (Supreme Federal Court), at the request of the PF itself. There was, however, no breach of confidentiality by companies belonging to the president’s son.
The PF’s actions follow a fine line. Investigators emphasize that Lulinha has not yet been charged and that investigations continue. The corporation asked for the confidentiality of the president’s son to be broken after information collected during the initial investigation and in statements.
The investigators’ intention is to verify whether there was a payment made by lobbyist Antônio Camilo Antunes, known as the Careca of the INSS, to Lulinha.
A former employee of the lobbyist, Edson Claro, said in testimony that Antunes paid this amount monthly to Lulinha and that he publicly flaunted his connection with the son of the President of the Republic. In Lulinha’s breach of confidentiality, however, there are no direct transfers from Careca to him.
The PF found evidence of payments of this amount to businesswoman Roberta Luchsinger, a friend of Lulinha. The investigation wants to determine whether she passed the money to the president’s son or someone else.
When contacted, she says that the president’s son did not receive amounts linked to INSS fraud nor did he participate, in any way, in the crimes being investigated. According to his lawyer, the breach of banking secrecy of those involved did not identify any financial link between him and the facts discovered.
“We also point out that all pertinent clarifications were sent to the Federal Supreme Court, and Fábio Luís made himself available for any additional consideration that that court deems necessary”, said, in a note, lawyer Guilherme Suguimori.
The investigations carried out by the Federal Police take place within the scope of , which investigates fraud in INSS benefit discounts.
Currently, the PF considers that the operation, whose first phase was launched in April 2025, is heading towards its final half. There are suspicions regarding possible operators and beneficiaries of the scheme, including lawyers.
However, the operation could still yield consequences with plea bargains that have been negotiated. One of them is with businessman Maurício Camisotti, one of the main operators of the scheme.
Camisotti was arrested in September last year, along with Careca from the INSS. He discusses the possibility of closing an agreement with the PF.
In a phase of the operation carried out at the end of last year, the PF claimed to have detected payments of R$300,000 made by order of Careca to the businesswoman friend of Lulinha. In total, Roberta Luchsinger would have received, in installments, R$1.5 million from the lobbyist.
In messages reported by investigators, Careca from INSS asks an operator to pay an installment of R$300,000 to a company in Roberta’s name, RL Consultoria e Intermediações.
The operator asks who would be the recipient of the money. Careca responds that it would be “the boy’s son” and then receives proof of payment for Roberta’s company.
At the time, the PF was evaluating the suspicion that he was referring to Lulinha and that .
Roberta’s defense says, since the occasion, that her company works with the prospecting and intermediation of business with national and foreign companies “and, in this context, it was approached last year by the company Brasília Consultoria Empresarial S/A, owned by Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes, to act in the regulation of the cannabidiol companies sector”.
The lawyers point out that there were only initial negotiations that did not succeed, and that they took place before the INSS discount deviations were revealed.
The investigations into Lulinha then advanced towards discovering whether Roberta made payments to him, financing trips taken by the president’s son, through transfers from Careca.
Her defense has denied irregularities and said that “the thesis that an attempt was made to ‘launder money’ through trips abroad is laughable – which would represent the enjoyment of the value and not its circulation for the purposes of concealment or dissimulation.”
Lawyers have also insisted that Minister André Mendonça open an investigation into the leak of detailed information from the investigation.
The Sem Desconto operation, conducted by the PF in partnership with the CGU (Comptroller General of the Union), investigates a fraud scheme that allegedly diverted around R$6.3 billion from INSS beneficiaries between 2019 and 2024.
The fraud consisted of unauthorized associative discounts on retirement and pensions — charges made by shell entities that did not provide the promised services, such as medical insurance or funeral assistance.
