Members of the Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI) of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), which is investigating the institute’s unauthorized debit scheme, on Tuesday (11/18) defended the trip of the Attorney General of the Federation, Jorge Messias, to testify.
“This ‘bad messiah’ has to come here, and if he doesn’t explain himself well, he has to go to prison (…) The Federal Prosecutor, who they now want to appoint to the STF, is like putting the fox in charge of the hen house; the president is the one who pushes the envelope,” said MP Iver de Mello (PP-ES).
The parliamentarians claim that there is evidence to suggest that the CFA was alerted about the scheme at the National Union of Pensioners, Pensioners and Seniors (Sendanabi), of which President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s brother, José Ferreira da Silva, known as Free Chico, is vice-president, and ignored the facts.
Opposition congressmen also claim that the possible nomination of Mesías to the Federal Supreme Court by Lula should be blocked in the Federal Senate. “Congress will have a unique opportunity to block the nomination of a President of the Republic to STF membership for the first time,” Rep. Kim Katagwiri (Uniao-SP) stated.
The INSS scandal was exposed by Capitals In a series of reports published from December 2023 onwards. Three months later, the portal showed that the collection of entities offering discounts on monthly fees to retirees had risen significantly, reaching R$2 billion in one year, while the associations responded to thousands of lawsuits for fraud in the membership of insurance policyholders.
Reports from Capitals It led to the opening of an investigation by the Federal Police (PF) and informed the investigations by the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU). In total, the National Front included 38 articles on the portal in the representation that led to Operation Without an Opponent, which was launched on April 23 and culminated in the dismissal of the President of the National Institute of Social Security and the Minister of Social Security, Carlos Lope.
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