It was recently identified by the Federal Police a suspicious of fraud that until now is valued at almost BRL 500 million. Fraud concerns the payment of benefits such as, for example, the allowance for confinement. The aid that aims to help the relatives of people who were arrested and ended up without income.
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This operation, which served to identify the deviations, also involved the National Institute of Social Security (INSS) and the Brazilian Federation of Banks (FEBRABAN). Some intelligence sectors of the banking institutions that are part of the programs are verifying evidence of divergences in transfers.
According to information from the PF, the alleged frauds were being carried out through access to the passwords of 29 people who are INSS employees. The main suspicion of all this is that the codes have been hacked by someone. Another point to be highlighted is that because of this access to the agency's system, criminals were also able to reactivate some benefits and change bank account details so that they could also receive payments.
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The investigators said in an interview with Folha de São Paulo that, among all the suspicions raised so far, it was only possible to identify the crime because a large amount of transfers were being diverted, that is, they were no longer going to the same recipients who received the benefits originally.
Another pattern that was also identified by the specialists is that the reactivations were carried out in the benefits that were close to completing five years, where their values never exceeded the maximum of hundred thousand. This was basically done to avoid attracting the attention of control bodies, such as the Financial Activities Control Council (COAF).
“The Federal Police detected, through the use of massive data analysis tools, the existence of thousands of fraudulent reactivations of social benefits. In this way, the most urgent measure to avoid the evasion of public money was the activation of financial institutions, making it possible to block the payment of millions of reais in fraudulent benefits”, pointed out Cléo Mazzotti, the current general coordinator of Repression of Treasury Crimes of the Police Federal.
What has left professionals concerned is that payments needed to be suspended as soon as possible, because due to investigations related to the same topic, it was possible realize that it is very difficult to get the money back after the transfer has been made. In certain cases, it is possible to find the author of the crime, but it is very difficult for the stolen amount to be returned.
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