The Federal Police (PF) is investigating an alleged money laundering scheme by lobbyist Antonio Carlos Camilo Antunes, of Careca of the INSS, through bonds (corporate debt securities) and real estate funds.
The reference to artifice appears in the documents of the new phase of Operation Without Discount, launched this Thursday (12/18) against targets linked to the lobbyist, identified as the main financial operator of fraud against INSS retirees, revealed by the Metropolises.
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Chamber of the deputy leader of the Lula government in the Senate, Senator Weverton Rocha (PDT-MA), one of the targets of Operation Sans Rebate
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The PF seized luxury cars from the home of Senator Weverton Rocha, in Brasilia
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Officers seized weapons, cash, luxury cars, imported watches, jewelry and other high-value goods.
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The arrest warrants issued by the PF took place at addresses in São Paulo, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Minas Gerais, Maranhão and in the Federal District.
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Operation without discount, by the federal police
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A luxury Volvo seized from Senator Weverton Rocha in Brasilia
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The PF executed 52 search and seizure warrants and 16 preventive arrest warrants
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The PF also seized imported watches during the new phase of Operation No Return
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Opoeração Sem Desconto investigates the national system of illegal reductions in INSS pensions and pensions
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Senator Weverton Rocha (PDT-MA) admits to having made political appointments at the INSS
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The PF arrested, this Thursday (12/18), Romeu Carvalho Antunes, son of Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes, known as “Careca do INSS”
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Romeu Carvalho Antunes, son of Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes, known as “Careca do INSS”
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The PF made new seizures at this stage of the operation
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Federal Police agents arrive at the PF regional police station with bags during the new phase of Operation Without Delivery
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Romeu was arrested by the Federal Police (PF) this Thursday (18/12)
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He is the son of Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes, known as Careca of the INSS,
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Besides Romeu, the PF executed search and seizure warrants against Senator Weverton Rocha (PDT-MA) and ordered the dismissal of the Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Social Security, Adroaldo Portal
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Another prisoner is the lawyer Éric Douglas Martins Fidelis, son of the former director of INSS benefits, André Fidelis.
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According to the PF, the lobbyist, imprisoned since September, used his companies to send money to a company called HBR Capital Soluções e Serviços Financeiros, in order to buy bonds.
Debentures are debt securities issued by companies to raise funds directly from investors in the financial market – it is as if the investor lends money to the company in exchange for interest and repayment of the loan on a predefined date.
It is suspected that the scheme went as follows: large sums of money were used to acquire bonds – as ownership of this type of securities is not public, the owners of the securities would remain hidden. In the future, selling securities in the market would bring in money legally.
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Target company
The HBR company, allegedly used in the case, belongs to one of the targets of Thursday’s operation, Rodrigo Moraes, who was arrested by Minister André Mendonça, of the Supreme Federal Court (STF).
The INSS Careca transfers were carried out through Rubens Oliveira Costa, designated as baggage transporter for the INSS party and linked to the lobbyist.
For example, Oliveira Costa sends to Careca, from the INSS, three proofs of transfers to HBR made by the companies Prospect and Brasília Consultoria – which belong to the lobbyist –, for amounts of R$1.2 million, R$1 million and R$40,000. All reserved for the purchase of debentures. In another situation, Rodrigo Moraes informs Oliveira COsta that until that moment more than 6 million reais had been sent from Prospect’s account.
“Rodrigo adds that by adding the amounts already invested with a new forecast of R$2,000,000.00, a bond worth R$8,500,000.00 would be issued,” says an excerpt from the PF investigation.
The PF claims that Moraes facilitated the flow of illicit values through companies in his name or under his direction, “by creating and maintaining structures adapted to financial circulation aimed at concealing the criminal origin of the amounts coming from fraudulent associative remittances”.
Real estate funds
Another target of the operation, Cristiana Alcântara, from the INSS Careca administrative core, would have been responsible for carrying out the partnership with Rodrigo Moraes, underlines the investigation.
According to the PF, he would have advised the sending of the sums obtained under the INSS contribution scheme to real estate funds, which, for the investigation, reinforces “the evidence of asset concealment and the complexity of financial transactions”. Real estate funds are ways of investing in market assets, such as physical properties or real estate debt securities.
In addition, according to the investigation, she became a partner of the lobbyist for Special Purpose Companies (SPE) and received bank credits from Rodrigo Moraes and companies suspected of fraud in the case of the INSS.
The STF ordered Cristiana to wear an electronic ankle bracelet. The report did not locate his defense or that of Rodrigo Moraes. The space remains open for demonstrations.
New phase of Sem Desconto
Thursday’s operation resulted in the issuance of 16 preventive arrests (including one transformed into house detention) and eight orders for electronic surveillance against those indicted. Romeu Carvalho Antunes, son of Careca of the INSS, was one of those arrested by the PF.
Aldroaldo Portal, executive secretary of the Ministry of Social Security, was also the target of the operation. He has been dismissed from his position and will be placed under house arrest. Senator Weverton Rocha (PDT-MA), a friend of the lobbyist, was the target of a search and seizure.
Another target was businesswoman Roberta Luchsinger, heiress to a banker and friend of Fábio Luis Lula da Silva, known as Lulinha, eldest son of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). According to the PF, she received 1.5 million reais from Careca from the INSS. In one of these transfers, he explained that the money was intended for “the boy’s son”, possibly referring to Lulinha.
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