Lula lins fraud in the INSS to Bolsonaro and says he does not do pyrotechnics in the investigation

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva commented on Saturday (10) the delay in the investigation on the INSS Fraud And the process of reimbursement of retirees and pensioners injured by the criminal scheme, and linked the scandals to the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL).

At the end of his trip to Russia, Lula was asked about the speed in repairing the victims, considering that the government was slow to take action and the size of political wear.

The scandal motivated an exchange in charge of the Ministry of Social Security, the departure of the PDT from the government base and has been explored widely by the opposition on social networks against Lula.

He replied that the delay occurs because he wants a deep investigation and not “pyrotechnics” with the gang. According to the petista, the case has been determined with the use of intelligence information and without fanfare. For Lula, there are serious entities in the INSS, and others that were created to commit crimes.

The case motivated the operation without discount, the Federal Police (PF) and the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) about discounts of at least $ 6 billion unauthorized for social security benefits. Lula said the case “is in the hands of justice.”

“Both CGU and the Federal Police went deep to reach the heart of the gang,” said Lula. “If I had done a carnival a year ago, it would possibly have stopped at Carnival. As happens in all complaints. You do a pyrotechnics show in a week, the other week leaves the pyrotechnics and forget. No. We decided to dismantle a gang that was created in 2019. It is important to know that a gang that was created in 2019. predecessor Jair Bolsonaro

He also cited, without name, that everyone knows the names of the Ministers of the Civil House and the Social Security in the Bolsonaro government.

As shown by Estadão, the problem of illegal discounts on the benefits of the INSS began to enter the radar in 2018 during the Bolsonaro government, but fired from 2023, Lula’s first year. One reasons for this increase is a measure that revoked control over discounts sanctioned by the former president in 2022. He also cited, without name, that everyone knows the names of the ministers of the Civil House and social security in the Bolsonaro government.

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Lula also pointed out that the resources came from retirees’ salaries and not from public coffers.

“The crime was a robbery of retirees and pensioners in this country. What I think is more serious: they were not in the INSS vault, they were in the pocket of the people. This makes us more angry and so let’s go to know who in this game and if there was someone from the past government involved in this.

The petista said that he does not want to seek “newspaper headlines”, but rather investigate the scandal and freeze the goods of “entities that have stolen” to obtain money to compensate the victims.

Reimbursement

Regarding reimbursement, Lula said the government still needs to systematize the size of the fraud and receive all the complaints of INSS beneficiaries who have been debited without approval.

“Returning or will not depend on you find the number of people who have been deceived. The number of people who had their name on a list without signing. Because those who signed, know, authorized,” said the president. “The victims will not be harmed. Those who dared to explore Brazilian retirees and pensioners will be harmed by creating entities and making promises never fulfilled for these people.”

This Friday, 9, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said he received information from the Union Attorney General (AGU) that the resources blocked from the accounts of the INSS associations and unions are sufficient to reimburse those of retirees and pensioners who were injured.

The Minister of Planning, Simone Tebet, said on Thursday (8) that, if necessary, the Union will complete with public money the resources for the full reimbursement of injured beneficiaries.