Understand what Lupi led to leave the government of Lula

The Minister of Social Security, Carlos Lupi (PDT), leaves the assignment after accusations of billionaire fraud to the IS; The foundation of discounts in 2023 and the delay of the adoption of effective measures have aggravated the crisis and made their stay unsustainable. The PDT wing also started defending the exit to avoid public frying

The Minister of Social Security, Carlos Lupi (PDT), left the office on Friday 2, after being under pressure from a series of Fraud complaints node National Social Security Institute (Ins). The crisis was triggered by the revelation of a billionaire scheme of undue discounts on pension and pensions, investigated by the Federal Police (PF) and by the General Controller of the Union (CGU).

At the end of April, the two institutions triggered the Operation without discountwhich estimated at $ 6.3 billion for total irregular expenses between 2019 and 2024

The operation led to the removal, by order of the Court, of the President of the IS, Alessandro Stefanuttoindicated by Lupi and his subsequent dismissal by the President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. As shown on the Estadão This Wednesday 30, Lula determined a INSS intervention. The president not only chose the federal prosecutor Gilberto Waller Junior Take the agency command, as required to deepen the investigations on the diversion of resources. The initiative, however, was not enough to contain political wear.

Although irregularities began in previous managers, it was the shot from the discounts of 2023 which led to the opening of the investigations. The maintenance of the regime during the management of wolves, combined with the delay in the adoption of effective measures, aggravated the political anguish and made its stay in the position unsustainable.

According to records in a few minutes of meetings, wolves was Notice of associative discounts in June 2023But only concrete measures adopted in March 2024. The information was revealed by National newspaperby TV Globo and confirmed by Estadão.

TO Estadão/TransmissionTHE The minister denied omissionHe said he tried to act and attributed responsibility for the slowness to the then director of the benefits, André Félix Fidélis, who was eventually fired. During an audition at the Social Committee and Social Assistance of the Chamber of Representatives, last Tuesday, 29, Lupi strengthened this speech, stating that it was not silent and acted with the publication of a regulatory education (in) to regulate discounts and conducted an internal audit completed in September 2024.

The explanations, however, did not convince. A survey by Atlasintel stressed that more than 85% of the population defended their departure from the office. The opposition, in turn, said it will present to Criminal representation in the office of the prosecutor General (PGR), accusing wolves of omission before the regime.

Parallel, like the Estadão, The assistants of President Lula are already evaluated as permanence of unsustainable wolves in the government. In the Planal Palazzo, the perception was that, even after Stefanutto’s resignation, the crisis had not been contained. The allies of Lupi also followed the same line and argued that the minister delivered the position to avoid public frying. According to close people, the government also refrained from making an emphatic defense of Lupi throughout the week, which accelerated its decision to leave the assignment.

This dissatisfaction was publicly strengthened by the leader of the PDT in the room of representatives, Mário Heringer (Mg), which, in a declaration a Estadão This Thursday, 1st, criticized the treatment given by the government to the pedestrian minister.

“I defend this position (The PDT output from the base). My bench, as far as I know, all defend this position. Of course, it’s not only only on me, but this is the position I will defend, “he said.

In its evaluation, the government has adopted a dubious position in conducting the crisis. The Minister of Institutional Relations, Gleisi Hoffmann, defended wolves in the governmentBut he said that if there is something in the future he will be removed.

Understand the INSS fraud

After the complaints on the increase in the number of discounts on the benefits, the CGU began an investigation and interviewed almost 1,300 retirees from different regions of the country who had discounted values. The result stressed that on average 97% of the beneficiaries had not authorized discounts.

The audits took place in 29 entities that maintained technical cooperation agreements (ACT) with ins. The CGU has discovered that most of these entities did not have an adequate operating structure to provide beneficiaries with the services offered. In addition, 70% of them did not provide the complete documentation required by the IS.

The number of entities agreed rose from 15 to 2021 to 22 in 2022, reaching 33 in 2024. According to the PF, the discounts could only be performed by express and individual authorization of each beneficiary for the payment of the association taxes. However, the investigation underlined the failures in verifying these authorizations, as well as proof of the falsification of affiliation documents.

The director of the financial statements, Finance and Logistics of INSS, Débora Floriano, said that there are currently about 6 million active discounts, although not everyone is considered irregular.

On the last Thursday 24, the Government announced the suspension of all the IS technical cooperation agreements with the unions, with the aim of interrupting the transfer of funds from these discounts to the unions.

The amounts discounted improperly will be reimbursed to retirees. The first episode, which refers to April, will be paid next to Folha De Maio. However, there is still no deadline for complete reimbursement of the amounts loaded in an irregular way. This discounts “stock” will be analyzed on a case -by -case basis, in order to distinguish what has been done with or without the consent of pensioners and pensioners.

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Source: Terra

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