The Federal Police (PF) discovered an accounting spreadsheet belonging to businessman Cicero Marcelino de Sousa Santos. (Featured photo)is considered the “financial arm” of the criminal organization behind the National Federation of Family Farmers (Conafer). According to the PF, the association misappropriated R640.9 million from the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), a scheme revealed by the PF. big city.
In the documents seized in the operation launched this Thursday (11/13), investigators identified nicknames used to hide the real names of bribe recipients in their positions at the INSS.
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A former INSS attorney general and his wife were also among those arrested by the PF.
The former director of welfare, Andre Paulo Félix Fidelis, appeared under the codename “Hero A,” while the former lawyer, Virgilio Antonio Ribeiro de Oliveira Filho, was known as “Hero V,” “Friend V,” and “Lawyer.” The organization’s former president, Alessandro Stefanutto, was nicknamed “The Italian”. According to PF, nicknames were also used in messages exchanged between Conafer members.
“Electronic messages were exchanged between members of the financial center and company directors dealing with ‘accountability’ in a spreadsheet containing the last names of beneficiaries (…), the same values used in company accounts,” the report said.
Bribes to Stefanutto were paid through pizzerias and law firms in the south of the country. He received 250,000 reais per month.
Andre Fidelis also used the office of his son, lawyer Eric Fidelis. He gave evidence this Thursday to the INSS CPMI, a panel set up by Congress to investigate the unfair discounting of pensions. big city.
Virgilio Oliveira Filho used his wife’s consulting firm Taisa Hoffman Jonathon. The couple were arrested this Thursday. The office said in a statement that the former prosecutor “voluntarily turned himself in to federal police on this day,” adding, “Voluntary surrender demonstrates respect for the institution and our client’s commitment to help uncover the facts.”
The big city He looked for the defenders of Marcelino, Stefanutto and Fidelis. This space will remain open for demonstrations.
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