The Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) has established 40 new administrative liability processes (PAR) against 38 entities and three companies suspected of illegally charging the so-called associative monthly fees of millions of retirees and pensioners from all over Brazil.
The pair is a mechanism provided for in the anti -corruption law (12,846/13) Brazilian and seeking to hold companies responsible for acts that their managers or employees commit against the public administration, without the need to demonstrate the existence of intent or intentional intent. The provided legal sanctions will be the obligation of a convicted company to publicize the eventual judgment until the payment of fines.
In a statement, CGU explained that it has decided to establish the administrative proceeding after faced with evidence that the associative entities and companies suspected of improperly discounted resources from the benefits that the National Institute of Social Security (INSS) paid to the insured social security regime frauduled the retirees and pensioners affiliation, “circumventing requirements provided for the registration of the INSS, as the registration of the registration. digital biometrics of its associates.
In these cases, it ensures CGU, “Associations had the support of companies that would have developed fraudulent affiliation preparation tools”, such as the companies Power Bi Software Technology and Internet Ltda.
Also according to the CGU, other evidence of irregularities were identified, such as the attempt to carry out associative discounts of deceased people and the refusal of the delivery of documents requested by audits by CGU and the INSS itself. In addition, when responding to the challenges of INSS beneficiaries, at least four associations have made audios available that, according to the controllership, “actually show the commission of serious irregularities.”
The 40 new administrative processes add up to another 12 that INSS and CGU had already instituted to investigate suspicions that public agents received bribes from leaders and representatives of associative entities linked to fraud against retirees and pensioners. “With the opening of the processes, the associations will have the opportunity to defend themselves and, after the contradictory, there will be definition of the responsibility of each of them.”
* With information from the CGU press office
