Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) sent a request to the Federal Audit Court (TCU) so that the body can investigate the alleged link between Fábio Luís Lula da Silva, known as “Lulinha”, son of President Lula, and Antônio Carlos Camilo, the “Careca of the INSS”. Camilo is identified as an operator of the embezzlement of money from retirees and pensioners investigated by the CPMI of the INSS.
In the representation, Flávio Bolsonaro asks the TCU to determine whether Lula would have “any possible responsibility, direct or indirect, with regard to the possible conflict of interest and the misuse of the purpose of the public machine”. According to Edson Claro, one of the witnesses interviewed by the CPMI, Lulinha received a payment of R$25 million and monthly transfers of R$300,000 from “Careca do INSS”.
“The absence of a formal contractual relationship between the parties, denounced by the witness Edson Claro10, and the absence of public justification of the reported payments, which, added to the information according to which Fábio Luís appears as a silent partner11 in companies linked to the businessman investigated, as well as his condition as son of the President of the Republic, raise serious concerns about a possible abuse of the public structure for private, even indirect, purposes,” states the senator’s representation.
Frei Chico
In the document, Flávio Bolsonaro also points out that the National Union of Pensioners, Pensioners and Elderly People (Sindnapi), of which Frei Chico, Lula’s brother, is vice-president, is also under investigation by the federal police for suspicion of billion-dollar fraud.
“The public and direct relationship between Fábio Luís (Lulinha), José Ferreira da Silva (Frei Chico), his uncle, and the President of the Republic, his father, requires increased caution and transparency in the investigation of any indication of favoritism, undue influence or capture of a public structure, especially in an organization as sensitive as the INSS,” he affirms.
The senator requests that an audit be initiated by the TCU to investigate “the appearance of undue political or institutional interference in strategic decisions” of the INSS, the “regularity of appointments, dismissals, agreements, transfers and other administrative acts coinciding with periods of contact” between Lulinha and Careca of the INSS, in addition to the alleged role of Sindnapi, the entity in which Frei Chico serves as vice president, “in irregular practices within the framework of the INSS”.
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