The Federal Police, in partnership with the State Public Prosecutor’s Office in Amapá, launched an operation this Thursday morning (3) to investigate a possible criminal scheme in which doctors from the Hospital de Clínicas Doutor Alberto Lima (HCAL) were defrauding their service schedule. , since April 2022, compromising public service at the hospital. 
Operation Jaleco Fantasma carries out 13 search and seizure warrants in Macapá. According to the PF, more than R$3 million was unduly paid for shifts not carried out.
The scheme
According to investigations, for a given medical specialty, two shift schedules were made, one of which was official and published in the website from the state health department and another parallel one, which was not published.
Adding the two scales, each doctor should perform an average of 24 12-hour shifts per month. Each shift pays around R$1,000, totaling R$24,000 paid, on average, to each doctor, including shifts that were not completed.
“During the investigation, it was observed that public servants, despite receiving the amounts, instead of fulfilling the regular working hours for which they were scheduled, carried out various activities, including trips abroad, not showing up for their shifts”, it says note from the Federal Police.
This was also the value of the assets of those being investigated that were judicially blocked.
The court ordered the precautionary dismissal of two civil servants. Those investigated may face charges of embezzlement, ideological falsification of public documents and criminal organization. If convicted, penalties can reach 25 years in prison, plus payment of a fine, in addition to the loss of public office.
Balance
Several vehicles belonging to those under investigation were seized during the execution of the warrants. The value of the judicially blocked assets of those being investigated amounts to R$3 million.
R$75,000 in cash were also found in the homes of those investigated and €4,000 euros in another location. The valuables were also seized.
