In connection with the entities involved in the wave of undebited deductions for pensioners, a businessman rushed to bank branches in Brasilia and made several withdrawals worth R$50,000, even after the start of the non-debit operation, by the Federal Police (PF), which is investigating fraud against pensioners by the National Social Security Institute (INSS).
Gutemberg Tito is one of the businessmen who controls two associations involved in the schemes. They are the Brazilian Union of Social Security Pensioners (Unibap) and the Brazilian Association for the Support of Pensioners and Pensioners, currently called Ampaben, but at the party’s peak it was called Abenprev.
He was not one of the targets of the investigations, but the Federal Comptroller General and the police forces have already identified evidence of his connection to these entities.
As it turns out CapitalsA report by the Financial Activities Oversight Council (Coaf) revealed how multi-million dollar transactions link these entities to Tito’s companies. These two associations alone received R$263 million in pension cuts.
One of Tito’s moves that caught the agency’s attention was the execution of 22 cash withdrawals from self-service terminals and teller windows at bank branches in Asa Norte, in Brasilia.
There were more secret withdrawals of R$10,000. Others were priced around R$50,000. Only one of them was before the launch of the Operação Sem Desconto operation, at the end of April 2025. At least three withdrawals worth approximately R$150,000 were made between May and July 2025.
The Coaf report was sent to the INSS Senate Joint Parliamentary Inquiry Committee. Tito has been the subject of several requests from senators and must testify before the university.
He was one of the figures in a series of Farra do INSS reports that exposed the scheme. Tito is part of a group of owners of insurance companies and charitable clubs, who have also faced problems in court over undeserved debits on automatic debts with banks.
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