The Financial Activities Control Board (Coaf) has identified suspicious movements between the PT’s National Technology and Information Sector Coordinator, Ricardo Bembo, and ADS Soluções e Marketing, a company suspected of involvement in a scheme to embezzle funds from INSS pensioners. The INSS party was revealed by Capitals.
ADS transferred R$120,000 to Bimbo’s personal account and another R$8.29 million to Datacore, a technology company of which he is a partner. to CapitalsHe said he did not remember the payments or service he would have provided to receive millions of riyals.
According to financial intelligence reports sent to INSS CPMI, the transfers to individuals occurred between December 2023 and February 2024. Furthermore, between August 2023 and July 2024, ADS made 22 transfers to Datacore totaling R$8.29 million – R$2.5 million transferred after Bimbo joined the company.
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During the same period, the Workers’ Party member paid an invoice amounting to R$10,354.60 to accountant João Muniz Leite, who was then in charge of the accounts of Fabio Luís Lula da Silva, known as Lulinha. Muniz Leyte was the target of Operation Fem da Linha, from the Public Ministry in São Paulo, on suspicion of laundering money for the Anti-Corruption Commission. After the incident, he stopped caring for the president’s son.
When the accountant was contacted, he said that he did not remember why he received the amount.
Bembo has been a member of the Workers’ Party since 1989, was part of Lula’s campaign working group in 1998 and has held positions in the party’s structure. During Marta Suplice’s directorship of the São Paulo City Council (2001-2004), she worked with Rui Falcão, then Secretary of Government. He was named in an investigation by the Public Ministry in São Paulo into alleged favoritism towards institutions linked to Workers’ Party activists, such as the Florestan Fernández Institute.
ADS participation in the INSS party
The CPI found that despite registering as a marketing company, ADS received large sums of money from entities that promoted suspicious deductions on pensioners’ salaries.
Between February 2023 and July 2024, the Potigar Association for the Protection and Defense of Pensioners transferred R$ 43.1 million; AAPPS, R$23.2 million – target of the first phase of the process without discount; and Apdap Prev, worth R$5.2 million, with assets blocked by the AGU.
ADS also passed amounts to other investigators. The law firm of Eric Fidelis, son of former INSS president Andre Fidelis, received R$2.6 million. The company also conducted transactions with a company owned by the wife of the former INSS prosecutor, Vigilio Antonio Riberia de Oliveira Filho.
Financial records show that ADS had, as of December 2024, a debt balance of R$2.98 million with Bimbo. Furthermore, between August 2023 and July 2024, the broker made at least 22 transfers to Datacore, totaling R$8.29 million:
- R$ 2,952,033.00 (7 TEDs): period from 01/08/2023 to 11/30/2023.
- R$ 2,816,815.00 (5 TEDs): period from 01/12/2023 to 02/29/2024.
- R$ 2,528,762.73 (5 TEDs): period from 03/01/2024 to 07/31/2024.
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