The Minister of Social Security is another for penetration in the scandal of fraud on retirement pensions

Brazil’s social security minister, Carlos Lobby, resigned nine days after the police revealed a major scandal of corruption, who defrauded the $ 1.1 billion (829 million pounds).

Federal police have claimed that over the past decade, the National Social Security Institute (INSS) has underestimated discounts from the payments that were made to millions of retirees.

It is claimed that the funds were paid to many associations and unions, which then participated in the profits with corrupt government officials.

Lobby has always denied any violations and said he ordered an investigation as soon as he heard about allegations.

“I make this decision with certainty that my name was not mentioned at any time in the ongoing investigations,” said Lobby on X when he announced his resignation.

“I hope that the investigations will follow their natural course, and to identify those officials and disabled, with rigor, those who used their sites to harm the workers,” he wrote.

The process does not deduct (Reduced In the Portuguese) 700 federal agents have seen the number 211 inspection orders throughout Brazil, Federal police said in a statement.

Assets of more than $ 177 million – including luxury cars, jewelry and more than $ 200,000 cash.

It is claimed that fraud included the registration of retirees as members of the retired associations without their consent, but as a result they had money regularly of their advantages of membership.

The police said that the plan targeted some of the poorest regions in the country, as retired people are unlikely to notice this fraud or complain of that.

Federal police said that the president of INSS resigned last week due to these allegations, and six government employees were removed from their positions.

Investigators focus on more than 6 billion people who believe that it has been transferred between 2019-2024, but the amount of these money that has been illegally taken is still unclear.

Deborah Floriano, INSS, director of budgets and financing, said that a work team will be prepared to return the missing money, but at this stage they are still trying to determine the size of fraud.

Carlos Lobe is the second person in the government of President Louise Inacio Lula da Silva to inspect his position due to the allegations of corruption in less than a month.

In early April, the Minister of Communications Juscelino Filho stepped down after being accused of taking bribes in 2022.

Lula spent 1.5 years in prison in 2018-2019 due to corruption, but the conviction was later delivered, which allowed him to run – and win – his third term as president of Brazil.