The associations led by Felipe Macedo Gomes received 700 million reais in membership discounts between 2022 and 2025, the speaker highlights; Gomes remains silent after question about donating to former Social Security Minister Onyx Lorenzoni in 2022
BRASÍLIA – The leader of Amar Brasil, Felipe Macedo Gomes, said he will take advantage of the habeas corpus granted by the minister The days of Toffolifrom Federal Supreme Court (STF), and will remain silent during the INSS CPI this Monday the 20th.
Gomes’ defense advised him not to answer questions from CPI members.
“I instructed Felipe not to answer any questions because I didn’t have access to anything,” said lawyer Levy Magno, who expressed dissatisfaction at not getting information about the investigation against his client. “Any words he carries, as a result, are potentially incriminating.”
Gomes is appointed by the speaker, MP Alfredo Gaspare (União-AL), as head of four entities that, together, received around R$700 million from membership discounts between 2022 and 2025. Amar Brasil, which he heads, received the largest share in this period – around R$300 million.
Both the speaker and the president of the CPI, Senator Carlos Viana (Podemos-MG) once again complained about the habeas corpus granted by the Supreme Court. Both maintain that the resource is granted only to the “powerful” to protect themselves from possible indictments or even imprisonment for false testimony.
The government is banking on Gomes’ testimony to try to strengthen the link between the government of former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and the fraudulent system of association pension discounts.
The leader of the CPI government, MP Paulo Pimenta (PT-RS), is one of those who intend to put stronger pressure on Gomes at the CPI: this is because the director of Amar Brasil made a donation of R$60,000 to Onyx Lorenzoni’s campaign for the government of Rio Grande do Sul, in 2022.
Onyx, in addition to being Pimenta’s state opponent, was Minister of Social Security during the Bolsonaro government.
The speaker asked whether the donated money could constitute a bribe. “I will remain silent,” Gomes responded.
It is the second statement from the CPI this Monday. Previously the commission had heard the lawyer Tonia Galleti, former member of the National Social Security Council (CNPS) and coordinator of the National Union of Pensioners, Pensioners and Senior Citizens (Sindnapi).
In this hearing Gaspare showed that the Galleti family received approximately R$20 million over a five-year period. The lawyer denied participating in any criminal scheme and said she is not a thief.
Source: Terra
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