The opposition wants Wolni Kairouz summoned to testify before the National Institute of Consumer Prices (INSS) about the telemarketing contract

The pressure comes after Estadão revealed that the company’s owner followed the offer from within the department

December 1
2025
– 10:28 pm

(Updated at 10:41 p.m.)

Brasilia – The opposition to the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wants to summon the Minister of Social Security, Lenny Queiroz, to attend a trial. INSS Consumer Price Index To provide clarification regarding A tender submitted by the municipality While the owner of the winning company is inside the folder’s headquarters. He was originally scheduled to make a statement on the first Monday of this month, but requested a postponement on the grounds that he had a flight.



The opposition wants to summon the Minister of Social Security to the INSS CPI

The opposition wants to summon the Minister of Social Security to the INSS CPI

Photo: Pedro France / Senado Agency / Estadão

Federal MP Marcel van Hatem Novo-RS criticized the head of the department and indicated that his agenda would be empty on the day he appeared before the body. He said, “Mr. President, Minister Wolni Queiroz must be summoned, because the invitation does not serve the purpose. He mocks every member of this committee when he sets the day to come here. There is no empty agenda, and on the same day this news comes out.”

As revealed condition Provider, owned by João Luiz Dias Pérez, was contracted for R$117.7 million after winning one of two lots in the competition that opened in June 2023 to operate the 135th call center for 13 states, from Cararoa (PE), until January 2027.

The bidding session for the e-auction for selected companies opened at 10 a.m. on June 22, 2023 and did not close until 5:20 p.m. Diaz Perez spent most of this period inside government facilities.

Entry and exit records at the entrance, in Building F of Esplanada dos Ministérios, show that the businessman entered the building at 10:14 a.m. and remained there until 5:32 p.m. Thus, from 14 minutes after the start of the remote trading session until 12 minutes after its end.

The public agenda of the ministry’s then Executive Secretary, Lenny Kairouz, records that he received the supplier partner that day, between 12pm and 1pm, while the bidding procedures were underway.

“Cararoaro is the birthplace of Minister Wilni Queiroz, where his father was mayor of the city, and the complaint from Estadão, in São Paulo, today, is very serious, in the Lula government: in June 2023, the winner of the electronic auction is a citizen of Recife named João Luiz Dias Pérez, worth R$ 117 million,” said Rep. Luiz Lima (Novo-RJ).