The CPMI (Mixed Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) of the INSS (National Social Security Institute) will hear this Monday (3) Abraão Lincoln Ferreira da Cruz, president of the CBPA (Brazilian Confederation of Fisheries and Aquaculture Workers).
The leader was the target of eight summons requests, which require mandatory presence, presented by opposition parliamentarians and government members.
CBPA is one of the entities being investigated by the Federal Police for undue associative discounts for retirees and pensioners. In a report, the CGU (Comptroller General of the Union) indicated that the confederation was one of the entities with the inclusion of associative discounts in a “significant volume”.
At CPMI, Abraão Lincoln Ferreira da Cruz also had requests for breaches of banking and tax secrecy approved, in addition to a request to send a RIF (Financial Intelligence Report) by Coaf (Financial Activities Control Council).
According to senator Izalci Lucas (PL-DF), one of the applicants for the CBPA president’s summons, the entity is “one of the central axes of the criminal architecture unveiled by Operation Without Discount and responsible for an estimated financial impact of R$ 221.8 million withdrawn in a persistent and systemic way from the benefits of retirees and pensioners”.
Abraão Lincoln is being accused of embezzling R$221,884,427.63 between February 2023 and March 2025, as found by Operação Sem Desconto, and is being held responsible for committing harmful acts against the federal public administration for having signed ACTs (Technical Cooperation Agreements) with the INSS to provide discounts for retirees and social security pensioners.
According to the records, in the precautionary action that resulted in the unavailability of its president’s assets, the CBPA operates in Brasília “in a simple room that only had a secretary to assist at the time of the visit. It does not have the infrastructure for location, capture, registration and much less provision of services for the number of affiliated members, as it is a small commercial room”.
The institution had 360,632 associated retirees and pensioners, residing in 3,677 municipalities, in the 26 States and the Federal District, considering the INSS Payroll of March 2024. “In this preliminary verification, the operational capacity of the CBPA was not demonstrated to attract and join so many retirees and pensioners, nor to provide services or provide assistance to the number of members it has, in thousands of municipalities across the country”, says the AGU (Attorney General of the Union).
For the AGU, there is strong evidence that it was created, like other entities investigated, with the sole purpose of committing fraud – a shell entity -, with its constitution using ‘oranges’, and there is also strong evidence of payment of undue advantage to public agents to authorize undue discounts.
