The doctor who allegedly charged R$1,000 for each process to obtain disability pensions may be liable for crimes of embezzlement and Social Security fraud. OBeneficiaries of this scheme will be able to also be held criminally responsible and obliged to return to the State all amounts received unduly.
The total value of the alleged fraud against the State has yet to be determined.. For each disability retirement process, the doctor charged R$1,000, without issuing a receipt, and these processes can now be reversed.
According to lawyer Paulo Veiga e Moura, “if it is demonstrated that the assumptions were false, then this act of the State is null, that is, it does not produce any effect”.
Just the whose reform processes raise serious doubts.
The doctor may incur several crimes, including document forgery, Social Security fraud and tax fraud.
According to the same lawyer, if the existence of a broader scheme is proven, The crime of influence peddling may also be at stake, due to possible collusion between several people.
The crime of fraud is also at stakesince the tests were supposedly prescribed in the name of a home, allowing them to be 100% covered by the National Health Service.
The workers themselves who have since retired They may also be held criminally liable.
“Naturally, they are complicit in the commission of these crimes and, therefore, they may equally be liable, whether for the crime of Social Security fraud or for the crime of embezzlement”, stated Paulo Veiga e Moura.
To the . If fraud is proven, beneficiaries will have to return the amounts received unduly.
“They will have to return it if it is proven that they recognized the existence of a fraudulent scheme that legitimized their retirement,” added the lawyer.
O The same may apply to the money paid by Carris to retired workers as a supplementin order to ensure that they receive a pension equivalent to the salary they received.
SIC was at the Benavente Health Center this Friday, where the doctor also works, despite being retired. She was scheduled to go to the emergency department, but she didn’t show up.
