The members of the Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI) of the National Social Security Institute (INSS) approved, this Thursday (26), the breaches of banking and tax secrecy by businessman Fábio Luís Lula da Silva, son of the President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
The request to prepare financial intelligence reports and break Lulinha’s banking and tax secrecy was requested by deputy Alfredo Gaspar (União/AL)
Silva is mentioned in decision of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) which authorized the Federal Police (PF) and the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) to carry out, on December 18, 2025, a new phase of Operation Without Discount, which investigates the national scheme of unauthorized associative discounts that harmed millions of retirees and pensioners across Brazil.
Messages that the PF extracted from the cell phone of Antônio Carlos Camilo Antunes, Careca from INSS, the main operator of the criminal scheme, mention the transfer of at least R$300,000 to “the boy’s son” – which, according to investigators, would be an allusion to Lulinha.
“The breach of banking and tax secrecy, as well as access to the Financial Intelligence Report (RIF) of Fabio Luis Lula da Silva, become technical imperatives for the INSS CPMI”, stated deputy Alfredo Gaspar when justifying his application.
In a note released yesterday (25), Silva’s defense stated that the client has no connection with fraud against INSS beneficiaries, having not participated in embezzlement nor received any amounts from criminal sources.
“In view of the incessant media campaign reproducing partial and confidential data from an ongoing investigation, I understood it was necessary to request access to the investigation from the STF”, revealed lawyer Guilherme Suguimori Santos.
The lawyer informed that Silva made himself available to the Supreme Court to provide clarifications, as soon as the defense has access to the case records. “Access to the files has not yet been granted to Silva, which prevents any other current manifestation, since we work with facts and evidence, not with the fight against unverifiable conjectures”, argued the lawyer.
Requirements
During the 32nd meeting of the CPMI, the deputies and senators who make up the collegiate voted on another 86 requests, including the breaking of Banco Master’s banking and fiscal secrecy and new summons, such as that of the former executive and partner of Banco Master Augusto Ferreira Lima.
“Lima left the partnership at Banco Master in 2024”, said Senator Damares Alves (Republicanos-DF), in her request, in which she recalls that, according to the PF, the former Master executive and current controller of Banco Pleno is suspected of having “acted in the internal structure of the financial institution [Master] and participated in operational maneuvers aimed at hiding irregularities [posteriormente] identified by the Central Bank”.
Several other calls were also approved, such as that of former federal deputy André Luis Dantas Ferreira, André Moura; businesswoman Danielle Miranda Fontelles and Gustavo Marques Gaspar, former advisor to senator Weverton Rocha (PDT-MA), among others.
According to federal deputy Rogério Correia (PT-MG), one of the authors of the request to summon Ferreira, the former federal deputy has been “pointed out as one of the possible organizers of the INSS fraud scheme, especially in the state of Sergipe”.
Danielle is named as “responsible for operating fraudsters’ structures abroad, facilitating the international circulation of capital and money laundering through one of her companies”, and of Gustavo Marques Gaspar, former advisor to senator Weverton Rocha (PDT-MA).
Gaspar was one of the targets of operation that the PF and the CGU triggered on December 18 last year, due to alleged “relations between the investigated party and several members of the fraudulent associative discount scheme.
The 87 requests were voted on as a block, without discussing the individual merits of each request. Once the result was announced, there was a start of turmoil, with pushing and shoving and exchanges of punches, leading to the interruption of the meeting.
Testimonials
In addition to voting on the requests, the INSS CPMI will hear the testimony of businessman Paulo Camisotti. Son and partner of businessman Maurício Camisotti – who is in prison, accused of involvement in fraud against retirees and pensioners -, Filho is being investigated for alleged participation in the billion-dollar fraud.
Parliamentarians also intended to hear state deputy Edson Cunha de Araújo (PSB/MA) and lawyer Cecílio Galvão, but they did not attend. According to the president of the commission, deputy Carlos Viana (Podemos/MG), Araújo claimed health reasons and the prohibition of leaving the capital of Maranhão, São Luís, and of approaching federal deputy Duarte Junior (PSB), who is part of the CPMI, as determined by the minister of the STF, André Mendonça.
Galvão claimed that he was unable to testify this Thursday due to professional commitments – a justification that motivated the president of the CPMI to order the Senate secretariat to adopt the necessary measures to, as soon as possible, carry out the coercive conduct of Galvão.
