The joint work of the Ministry of Social Security, the Federal Police (PF) and the Federal Public Ministry (MPF) avoided losses of R$393.8 billion to Social Security in 2024. The losses were avoided thanks to 74 joint actions by the Social Security Force. Social Security Task, with 52 special operations and 22 flagrant ones.
The projected value, informed the General Coordination of Social Security Intelligence (CGINP), considers payments that could be made to supposed beneficiaries if there was no action by the task force to combat criminal schemes.
Last year, 344 court orders were served, including 99 arrest warrants (four against public servants) and one for removal from public office. The task force also carried out 277 search and seizure warrants. In relation to the flagrant acts, the actions resulted in 33 arrests.
Although the CGINP estimates the undue payments of fraudulent benefits at R$221 million, the value would be much higher without the task force, reaching the projected R$393.8 billion. For 2025, the coordination is qualifying servers to identify fraud through cybercrimes, which involve new technologies.
Throughout last year, CGINP initiated 80 analyzes of new fraud cases and concluded another 79 cases, forwarded for investigation by the Social Security Task Force. Based on the reports sent to the task force, the Federal Police opened 46 inquiries aimed at investigating structured pension fraud.
The biggest joint action last year, reported the CGINP, was Operation Data Market, which carried out 18 preventive arrest warrants and 29 search and seizure warrants in 24 Brazilian cities and dismantled three criminal organizations that irregularly contracted loans granted to beneficiaries of the Institute National Social Security (INSS).
It is estimated that criminals obtained R$32.8 million through the exposure of data from Social Security policyholders that allowed the loans to be taken out. CGINP emphasizes that, in Operation Data Market, there was no direct damage to public coffers, but to financial institutions.
