This Monday, the INSS CPI will hear the testimony of Igor Díaz Derekrod, the leader of the AASAP association, who has been identified as the central figure in a scheme to unfairly discount Social Security benefits. Derek Lord’s name appears in the application approved by the commission for connecting four entities – AASAP, Amar Brasil, Master Pleb and ANDAPP – that are suspected of processing approximately R700 million in automatic monthly fees charged to retirees without authorization.
One of the reports came from Deputy Kim Katagiri (Union SP), who said the leader could be a “front man” for hidden actors in the scheme. He asked for an explanation of how the association came to be managed, what the toll collection and financial management mechanisms were, and whether there was any coordination with other group leaders, such as Felipe Macedo Gómez of Amar Brasil and Américo Monte of ANDAPP.
According to the request, Derek Lord must also detail the movements between the four entities, the shared use of government services, and the possible commingling of accounting resources.
The testimony came days after the CPI approved a request for preventive detention for five people under investigation and a confrontation between Antonio Carlos Camilo Antunes, known as Careca of the INSS, and his lawyer Eli Cohen. The commission, chaired by Senator Carlos Viana (Podemos MG), argues that the target is a risk to investigations and the application of criminal law.
Since work began, the commission has already ordered the arrest of three people for this act, including the president of the Brazilian Federation of Fisheries and Aquaculture Workers, Abraham Lincoln Ferreira da Cruz, for false testimony. The INSS CPI was created to investigate the multibillion-dollar fraud investigated by the Federal Police’s Operation No Discount through monthly fee discounts and contributions automatically applied to the salaries of retirees and pensioners.
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