A healthcare businessman was one of the direct beneficiaries of the fraud and headed entities responsible for the discounts
Businessman Maurício Camisotti, owner of the Total Health group, confessed to undue discounts on INSS (National Social Security Institute) and (Federal Police) benefits. It’s the 1st in the case.
He is appointed as one of the main operators of “No Discount operation” and direct beneficiary of fraud. The businessman is accused of corruption to facilitate the scheme and fraud in debt collection.
Camisotti has companies in the area of insurance and health plans. He controlled 3 entities that earned more than R$1 billion in 4 years from fraud. They are: (Mutual Retirees for Collective Benefits), Unsbras (Union of Retirees and Pensioners of Brazil) and Cebap (Center for Studies on the Benefits of Retirees and Pensioners).
The directors of the entities were relatives and employees of executives who worked at the whistleblower’s companies.
The entities responsible for undue discounts to retirees were fronts and were part of a money laundering structure.
Breach of banking secrecy shows that 4 companies in Camisotti’s group received R$43 million from the associations. Among them are Prevident and Rede Mais, from the health sector, as well as Benfix, an insurance brokerage in the businessman’s name.
ARREST AND DENITION AWARDED
The businessman has been in prison since September. At his house, the PF seized sculptures, paintings, weapons and luxury cars. Camisotti was the target of the same phase of the police operation that arrested Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes, the .
The material for the plea bargain is already with the minister of the STF (Supreme Federal Court) André Mendonça. With the agreement, the expectation is that he will leave prison and get the benefit of house arrest.
CITATION AT CPMI
The businessman’s performance was cited in the CPMI (Mixed Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) of the INSS. The final report by federal deputy Alfredo Gaspar (PL-AL) called for Camisotti’s indictment.
Gaspar called him the business leader of the billionaire leak at Ambec. However, oo by 19 votes to 12.
