{"id":494993,"date":"2025-12-18T14:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/brazils-deputy-minister-of-social-security-arrested-for-alleged-corruption\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:16:47","slug":"brazils-deputy-minister-of-social-security-arrested-for-alleged-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/brazils-deputy-minister-of-social-security-arrested-for-alleged-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil’s Deputy Minister of Social Security Arrested for Alleged Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"On Thursday, Brazil’s Federal Police arrested the Deputy Minister of Social Security, Adroaldo Portal, as part of an anti-corruption operation that has been investigating since the beginning of the year millions of irregular diversions in the pension system.\n\nThe operation, authorized by the Supreme Court, includes 16 preventive detention orders and 52 searches in the states of S\u00e3o Paulo, Para\u00edba, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Minas Gerais, Maranh\u00e3o and Brasilia, the Federal Police indicated in a statement.\n\nOne of the targets of those raids was Senator Weverton Rocha, of the Democratic Labor Party (PDT, in its Portuguese acronym), suspected of participating in the scheme uncovered at the National Institute of Social Security (INSS).\n\n\n

You can also read:<\/strong> They arrest a marine in Ecuador in an operation against drug trafficking<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nRocha said in a note that he received “with surprise” the registration of his residence and made himself available to the authorities.\n\nThe case refers to a millionaire fraud detected at the beginning of this year within the INSS and which may reach 6.3 billion reais (today about 1.15 billion dollars).\n\nAccording to the authorities, that money would have been diverted from the accounts of retirees and pensioners between 2019 and 2024, although it is suspected that these fraudulent practices may have started even earlier.\n\nThe money was deducted directly from the payrolls through various methods, which included even the payment of unsolicited credits, and was diverted through companies or organizations that had agreements with the INSS to offer advantages or discounts on some services to retirees.\n\nBrazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva defended this Thursday, in a press conference, investigating “all people involved”, amid police suspicions regarding F\u00e1bio Lu\u00eds da Silva, one of the president’s sons.\n\n“No one will go unpunished. If there’s a son of mine involved in this, he will be investigated,” he guaranteed.\n\nAccording to the local press, F\u00e1bio Lu\u00eds da Silva maintained a business relationship with one of the key players in the plot, the businessman Ant\u00f4nio Camilo Antunes, known as the ‘Bald Man of the INSS’, who allegedly made a series of payments to a “friend” of the progressive leader’s son.\n\nThe Federal Police began their investigation based on approximately 130,000 complaints from retirees who had funds stolen from their accounts, although they suspect that the number of fraud victims may be greater and exceed four million.\n\nThe scandal was also the subject of a parliamentary inquiry and led last May to the resignation of the then Minister of Social Security Carlos Lupi, although he is not among the suspects.\n\nFollowing Thursday’s operation, the current head of that office, Wolney Queiroz, dismissed his second-in-command, Adroaldo Portal, who will be under house arrest, as determined by the Justice Department.\n\n“The Ministry of Social Security and the INSS will continue to actively collaborate with investigations and act to recover the resources diverted by this scheme,” the portfolio indicated in a statement.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, Brazil’s Federal Police arrested the Deputy Minister of Social Security, Adroaldo Portal, as part of an anti-corruption operation that has been investigating since the beginning of the year millions of irregular diversions in the pension system. The operation, authorized by the Supreme Court, includes 16 preventive detention orders and 52 searches in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24LL","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Paola Castillo","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-paola-castillo-f-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}