Brazil: Now, a Corruption Scandal · Global Voices

It is true that the scheme began years ago, first in the government of Michel Temer (2016-2019) who, after an armed coup in Congress, replaced President Dilma Roussef, and then spread under the mandate of the unbalanced ultraright Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022).

Compensation for INSS (National Institute of Social Security) retirees and pensioners who received undue discounts from associations affiliated with the institute will cost up to 16% of the R$40.9 billion that the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) allocated to cover flood expenses in Rio Grande do Sul in 2024. The CGU (Office of the Comptroller General of the Union) estimates that several associations discounted R$6.5 billion from ret…

After days of silence, Lula finally spoke, on this Saturday, 10, on the scandal of INSS. As expected, the president accused the former government of unauthorized discounts, as his allies have done in the last weeks, but the fact is that the Lula government has already lost this battle. First of all, Lula... The post Lula has already lost the battle of the attendances appeared first on The Antagnonist.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated, on this Saturday (10), that no person or pensioner will be harmed by the unauthorized discounts of associated minorities on the payment page of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS). He stated that the government does not want to do “a show of pyrotechnia” with the case, but “approve with a lot of seriousness” to find the accused. “You could have done a pyrotechnia and have not been convicte…

About a month before the Federal Police (PF) broke down the operation that discovered an undisputed discount scheme of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), then president of the body, Alessandro Stefanutto, gave a statement that came to the tone only this week. In a message sent to Congress on 7 April, Stefanutto said it was impossible to "identify an index of pain, fraud or administrative error in relation to possible outstanding d…

Lula stated that fraud investigation in INSS will be done without delay to establish a link with Bolsonaro government. Read in the People's Journal.