STF Minister Andre Mendonça allowed the former prosecutor’s wife, who was also arrested, to go into home care to take care of the couple’s one-year-old son, who was with his 73-year-old grandmother.
Former Attorney General L National Institute of Social Security (INSS) Virgilio Antonio Ribeiro de Oliveira Filho and His wife, physician and businesswoman Thesa Hoffman Jonasson, They were arrested Last Thursday, 13, by Federal Police (PF) in investigating deviations in pensions.
On Saturday, the 15th of this month, the Minister of the Federal Supreme Court Andre Mendonça Taissa was placed on house arrest to care for the couple’s 1-year-old son, who was in the care of his 73-year-old grandmother..
Oliveira Filho is accused of expressing opinions that ensure the continuation of illegal union discounts for retirees. The National Front claims the former prosecutor would have done so It received an increase in assets of R$ 18.3 million as a result of the so-called “INSS spree”. According to investigations, he incorporated a lobbyist’s Porsche into his family’s assets and transferred it to his wife’s name.
According to the Federal Police, the entities involved in the scheme made payments to Taisa’s companies in exchange for her husband’s opinions. Taisa received R$11.9 million from lobbying firms Antonio Carlos Camilo Antunes, “Careca do INSS”. However, it claimed before the CPMI of the INSS of the National Congress that it provided medical opinion services.
Oliveira Filho was appointed to the position of INSS Prosecutor General for the first time in 2020, during the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro. (PL), and remained in his position until 2022, when he began working as legal advisor to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.
In September 2023, under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Virgilio was reappointed to the Public Prosecutor’s Office at the National Institute of National Security. It was removed at the request of the Federal Police (PF) as a result of the investigation into the embezzlement of R$6.3 billion in pensions between 2019 and 2024.
in INSS Consumer Price IndexLawyer Eli Cohen stated that the server allowed financial transfers to the associations and was the link with Antonio Camilo.
According to PF, Virgilio officially acted to stop withholding payroll deductions for retirees and retirees. The procedure was determined by the Federal Court of Audit (TCU) after the audit. The former prosecutor justified that the lock could increase the number of “elderly and low-educated people” in social security agencies.
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