In a statement to the INSS CPI, former Social Security Minister Carlos Lupi (PDT) denied having participated in any irregularity in the agency or covered the deviations detected in retirees and pensioners discounts. , Lupi stressed that he hopes to see the authors of the arrested fraud. The president of the PDT is one of the main targets of the CPI because it was ahead of the ministry when the scandal was revealed. It was under its management in the years 2023 and 2024 that the associative discounts multiplied.
“I don’t have any condemnation of the judiciary.” Deviations, I never did it in my life. I didn’t cover up anything or I was conniving. I hope all the INSS servers that have been conniving with the frauds to be arrested. I am in this collegiate as a collaborator, I was invited and not summoned, ”he said.
His testimony is seen with fear by the government. As The globe He showed, he refused to participate in training for the session. To close people, he stated that he saw his participation in the commission with peace. The spontaneous profile of the former minister is considered an unpredictable factor for his performance. Other members of the first level have already been prepared internally.
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As he left the ministry in early May, Lupi left with a certain hurt by the way his dismissal occurred. The former minister resigned when the permanence was unfeasible after the scandal’s outbreak in the INSS. Although investigations do not mention Lupi, the understanding in the Planalto was that the perception prevailed in public opinion that he did not take steps to stop the discounts. The findings also revealed a delay in government actions on the subject, even after several alerts.
In an interview with GloboIn April, he admitted that there was a delay in taking action to contain the fraud, but denied omission on his part. More than once, the former minister has told people close to feeling discontent that he was not warned by other areas of the government about the breakdown of the discounts of the associations.
