THE Operation “without discount”, the Comptroller General of the Union and the Federal Police seized with only one target of a judicial warrant assets evaluated in R $ 15 million in Ceará. Searches occurred in 13 states and the Federal District.
Luxury cars, as Ferrari and Rolls-Royce were seized, in addition to jewelry in Curitiba (PR) and paintings and money in kind in São Paulo (SP).
“In an initial way, it is the beginning of the investigation, we got this mapping. So much so that, with a single target, several cars, Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, valued at more than $ 15 million; more than $ 220,000 with another; and $ 150,000 with another [investigado]. This, by itself, points to the severity of what we are talking about and the right shot we have given to this investigation, ”said Andrei Rodrigues, general director of PF, at a press conference on Wednesday (23).
The seizures are part of the court decision, which determined blockade of assets and values in the house of $ 1 billion of the investigated.
The lawsuit investigates fraud at the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), which would have reached R $ 6.3 billion in monthly discounts of retirees and pensioners without authorization, between 2019 and 2024.
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Six INSS servers were removed, among them, the president of the agency, Alessandro Stefanutto, and the director of benefits, Vanderlei Santos. A policeman was also removed.
CGU and PF investigations are people linked to entities, operators and public servants suspected of involvement in illegal charges.
According to researchers, this phase is “just the beginning” of a long process for accountability of the conduct of those who committed the fraud and benefited from them.
This content was originally published in images: Operation against INSS fraud seizes luxury cars and jewelry on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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