The Sao Paulo Program for Protection and Protection of Consumer (Procon) has already warned, in July 2019, the National Social Security Institute (INSS) and the National Consumer Secretariat (Senacon) in the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) administration on unauthorized discounts for retirees and retirees.
In a statement, in that year, the ProCon demanded the immediate termination of “incorrectly made discounts”, as well as payment to users.
“Due to this practice, the Procon-SP Senacon and INS requires the immediate suspension of the licensing granted to all associations to assess problems, correct irregular practices, re-evaluate the standards that determine the conditions for cooperation and agreement with civil societies for more security and protection for consumers, as well as decisive procedures for care, care and care Compensation of disabled consumersThey said.
At that time, they stated that in 2017, they already sent a complaint about this behavior to the state’s public prosecution service, when a civilian investigation was conducted by the third public prosecutor.
In 2019, Procon had a significant increase in complaints of unauthorized discounts for nine societies between 2017 and 2019. The number jumped from 2,268 (in 2017), to 7564 (in 2019).
In July of that same year, at a meeting in the Ministry of Justice with Minister Sergio Moro and the presence of the National Consumers Secretary and President of Inses, CEO of Broocon São Paulo at the time, Fernando Cuesbes, Express his concern about the topic.
Shortly later, in August, Procon issued another report showing that INSS has ended an agreement with four retired violations associations.
The program said: “Because of the institution’s request, the President of INSS pledged to remove all associations and companies that have abusive discounts. This procedure aims to end the discounts that were implemented immediately in the advantages and ensure the compensation of users.”
According to the federal police report, The operation was launched last month This boycotted a billionaire of INSS transportation, two associations that ended the contract in 2019 were identified by the same CNPJ, just in another.
“From the listed CNPJ, the presence of two entities there was an official character to a new law (technical cooperation agreement), which was Abraz, which was called Anaps and Aapen, which was called App, when the agreements are terminated,” says an excerpt from the document.
According to PF, according to the review of the accounts conducted by INSS itself, ABRAPPS, which was previously called Anaps, was the issue of new restrictions on a new agreement, due to “the history of lawsuits against the entity to obtain unauthorized discounts.”
In opinions issued in 2020 and 2021, “DGACO (Cooperation Agreements Department) stressed that despite the official requirements, the risk of responsibility for continuous damage.
However, in September 2021, the DCBEN shipping department, responsible for analyzing technical cooperation agreements, spoke against the opinion issued by DGACO, which suggested the celebration of a new agreement, the official nature was addressed and published in the Official Gazette in October of that year.
The other assembly, AAPEN, which was once called App, obtained a new agreement after the initial rejection resumption.
A CNN He called the consultant to the National Consumer Secretariat, the National Institute for Social Security and former President Gear Bolsonaro (PL), who served as CEO in the years.
