The case that became known as the INSS spree was investigated by the Comptroller General of the Federation, with the Associação dos Apostentados do Brasil (AAB) as founding partners of evangelical churches based in Brasilia. Among them is Dojeval José dos Santos, president of the foundation.
Dogival, which signed a cooperation agreement between the AAB and INSS in 2023, established the National Evangelistic Crusade — registered with an S instead of a Z — in 1996, under the fanciful name “First Pentecostal Church of Christ Hope.” According to data provided by Dogival to the IRS, the religious foundation operates in Sealandia.
In September this year, the Joint Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry (CPMI), which is investigating the fraud, approved a request to subpoena Dougival to give evidence in the Federal Senate. On Thursday (11/6), parliamentarians demanded breaking the man’s banking and tax secrecy.
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The second person associated with the Brazilian Association of Retired Persons is Lucinide dos Santos Oliveira, president of the Evangelical Pentecostal Church Ministério Visão de Deus (Featured image), located in Recanto das Emas, about 32 km from the country’s capital.
The Lucinide name also includes, in the same administrative area, at least five other companies: Impacto, R&D Security, Solution Serviços de Locação, Expresso Serviços de Publicidade and Prospera Produtos. The projects offer everything from retail to car rental and agricultural support activities.
Curiously, the CNPJs bearing the name Lucinide are located at the same address as companies affiliated with Samuel Crisostomo de Pomfim Junior, accountant at the National Confederation of Farmers and Family Entrepreneurs (Conafer) – another organization implicated in the INSS fraud. In fact, one of Samuel’s companies supposedly operated in the same place as the church Lucenides founded.
the Capitals He was there and found only the religious institution, built between a Christian education center and an empty plot of land. However, according to data from the Federal Revenue Service, Samuel’s Store is active in this area, which raises suspicions that it is a shell company.
A third person linked to Conafer, named Cícero Marcelino de Souza Santos, also has companies operating at the same address as the Lucineide and Samuel projects. The two projects in question are Nobre Eventos e Cunha and Santos Locações, which do not have a sign on the facade of the building in which they are supposed to be located, according to documents released by the Federal Revenue Service.
Cicero, who said during CPMI that he received “a few dollars” of money that should have gone to INSS beneficiaries, is an advisor to Carlos Roberto Ferreira López, president of Conafer.
On October 16, during his testimony, Cicero admitted that he opened companies to provide services at the request of Carlos Lopez. He said that he received payment papers for the Confer entities and passed them on, in addition to denying his knowledge of Samuel Crisostomo.
Santos also denied knowing the source of the resources Conaver received. However, he and his wife had transferred R$300 million from the foundation since 2019.
During the CPMI, Cicero companies were designated as Orange companies. “The only thing I see here in this CPMI index is that the people that unions are helping are the managers themselves and their families, or the managers’ companies, or their family members, or the orange people and their family members. And you’re an orange person, and your companies are orange companies,” said Rep. Adriana Ventura (Nov-SP).
Retirement program
On the Union’s website, Conaver publishes the Previdência Brasil+ program, which, according to the page, aims to disseminate information about social security education and INSS Digital. Initiatives include benefits courses, to help interested parties claim their rights.
The website also states that there is no cost for this process. The portal says: “Affiliates will not receive any remuneration from the institute or users in exchange for performing the service, and are not prohibited from collecting the association’s monthly fees from the beneficiary of the service.”
However, the CGU investigation showed that the situation was not as shown by Conaver. Auditors interviewed 56 people, in 16 union units, who received union discounts. None of the victims authorized the transfer.
The controller added that 621,094 retirees received a discount on payments linked to Conafer in the first quarter of 2024 alone.
The AAB asked the deceased person for a deduction
The Brazilian Retirement Association requested the deduction for people who died decades ago. A survey by the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) revealed that the AAB, headquartered in Brasilia, had improperly requested, in more than 27,000 cases, the inclusion of nexus deductions for deceased persons.
This was the case, for example, of Jaime dos Santos, who died on October 25, 2002, at the age of 46. However, in March 2024, more than two decades later, the entity requested to be registered on the discount list provided by the National Institute of Social Security.
“This is behavior that constitutes, in theory, an attempt to circumvent public administration controls,” explains the CGU. The supervisory authority continued: “The facts constitute strong evidence of a fraudulent act, as they are supposed to reveal the absence of any valid appearance of consent on the part of the beneficiary.”
The other side
the Capitals She attempted to contact the people mentioned in the text via email and phone, but had not received a response as of the last update. The field remains open for future demonstrations.
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