INSS Fraud Inquiry Seeks 216 Indictments and 21 Preventive Arrests, Recommends Detaining Lulinha

Overview

• The CPMI’s relator, Alfredo Gaspar, presented Friday a roughly 4,300‑page final report that seeks to indict about 216–218 people over a years‑long scheme of unauthorized deductions from INSS pensions using associations and cooperation agreements.
• The Senate’s legal office sent a request to the Supreme Court for the preventive detention of 21 suspects, citing findings from the Federal Police, CGU and TCU that losses exceeded R$7 billion and affected more than 10 million beneficiaries.
• The report names Fábio Luís Lula da Silva (Lulinha) for indictment and asks for his preventive arrest, arguing he left for Spain as probes advanced and benefited from trips and payments tied to the scheme, claims his lawyers reject.
• High‑profile figures across parties are listed for indictment, including Senator Weverton Rocha, Deputies Euclydes Pettersen and Gorete Pereira, and former Social Security ministers Carlos Lupi and José Carlos Oliveira.
• The commission is split, as the relator urges probes into banker Daniel Vorcaro’s ties to justices Alexandre de Moraes and Dias Toffoli, while a government‑backed alternative seeks to indict Jair and Flávio Bolsonaro with a vote pending on which findings advance.