Carlos Roberto Ferreira López, president of the National Federation of Family Farmers and Rural Family Entrepreneurs, who was considered a fugitive by the Federal Police (PF), has been identified as the mastermind of a scheme that embezzled at least 640 million reais from retirees affiliated with the organization.
He would have been involved in every aspect, from orders to collect signatures from retirees and use them to forge consent to Conafer, to paying bribes to politicians and high-ranking members of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS).
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López was one of 10 people subject to a preventive arrest warrant issued by Supreme Court Minister Andres Mendonça at the request of federal police in Operation No Discount, which investigated the prevalence of unfair discounting revealed in the Supreme Court’s bench. big city.
The minister’s decision includes excerpts from the police statement that requested his arrest. PF identifies Lopez as one of the plan’s great leaders.
600,000 people injured
The investigation found that Conafer alone harmed more than 600,000 retirees and diverted 90% of the funds collected from the system to farms and other businesses.
They hired an outsourced company just to collect signatures. A former employee said in a statement that the corporation’s president ordered them to collect signatures from beneficiaries in the name of “registration renewal.” The signatures were then duplicated on fraudulent membership documents.
López had trusted agents and people who dealt with politicians and distributed the money he raised to businesses. The man who received emergency aid was also used to purchase two planes.
politicians and public institutions
The messages revealed conversations between López and his right-hand man, Cicero Marcelino, who was arrested by federal police, about payments to public institutions. In the entity’s spreadsheet, the entity was given the nicknames “Hero” and “Friend.”
Only former INSS president Alessandro Stefanutto is suspected of receiving allowances amounting to 250,000 reais per month. The money was allegedly paid through companies including the pizza shop and a lawyer named Gilmer Stero.
The message shows Marcelino reporting to López about Stero’s influence on Stefanutto. He claims to have heard that his “biggest spokesperson” denied Mr. Conafer the possibility of terminating the agreement that allowed him to take deductions from retirees. He alone received 900,000 reais from the organization.
André Fidelis, former director of INSS Benefits, would have received R$3.5 million. Former Attorney General Virgilio de Oliveira Filho received R$6.6 million from the Conafer operator.
Former Social Security Minister José Carlos de Oliveira (PSD) is also suspected of accepting bribes. This figure was not included in the decision ordering the electronic ankle bracelet monitoring.
Federal deputy Euclides Pettersen (R-MG) is supposed to have received R$14.7 million in split payments to two companies connected to him.
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