Federal Police are targeting social security fraud.
Operation in the municipality of Camaçari executes three search and seizure warrants issued by the Federal Court; the scheme involved an accountant and a military police officer.
The Federal Police are carrying out an operation this Friday (20), in Camaçari (BA), to carry out three search and seizure warrants, issued by the Federal Court, in the fight against fraud crimes committed through social security fraud. The scheme involved an accountant and a retired military police officer, whose names were not revealed.
According to investigations conducted jointly with the Ministry of Social Security, the pair filed for retirement benefits based on length of service or disability using false data. To do this, the accountant entered false information in the name of various companies into the INSS (Brazilian National Institute of Social Security) system, creating non-existent employment relationships.
With this, he generated and transmitted the FGTS (Guarantee Fund for Length of Service) and Social Security Information Collection Forms (GFIPs) with false data. After creating the fraudulent employment relationship, the false Social Security insured person applied for the benefit.
For the fraud, the accountant used documents from people who were recruited by the retired military police officer. "He recruited people, who received up to 50% of the first benefit payment installment. Later, he also started falsifying medical reports to apply for INSS (Brazilian Social Security Institute) benefits or for people to use to obtain work leave," explains Delegate Maurício Salim, head of communications for the Federal Police in Salvador.
According to the police chief, the police are now investigating whether the owners of the companies whose names were involved in the fraud were part of the scheme. However, it is already known that some of the companies do not exist. The police have not yet estimated the amount of the losses from the fraud, but they know that the scheme had been operating for at least three years.
This Friday, the suspects will be summoned to provide explanations at the headquarters of the Federal Police Superintendency in Salvador and may possibly be indicted for the crime of aggravated fraud.