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The Federal Police began today (10) an action to combat fraud in the payment of emergency aid. Called Operation Second Parcel, it is carried out in 14 states and a total of 7 arrest warrants and 42 search and seizure warrants were issued.
According to the PF itself, a large part of the action takes place in cities in the state of São Paulo. Among the arrests made Thursday was that of a bank suspected of facilitating fraud.
The action of the Federal Police involves search and seizure orders.Source: Federal Police / Disclosure
As part of the operation, the Justice allowed the blocking of R $ 650 thousand in accounts that received the aid illegitimately. Approved in April this year, the government benefit aims to help low-income families affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Since the beginning of the investigations, the PF has been able to detect, block and cancel the registration of more than 3.82 million irregular applications. With this, the agency avoided a loss of R $ 2.3 billion to the public coffers.
The operation is a strategy coordinated by the Federal Police with the collaboration of the Public Ministry of the Federation (MPF), Caixa, the Federal Treasury Service, the General Comptroller of the Federation (CGU), the Court of Accounts of the Federation (TCU ) and the Secretariat of Citizenship. .
Scammers can face up to 8 years in prison.Source: Correio Braziliense / Reproduction
How is fraud carried out?
According to the Federal Police, criminals use bank receipts to simulate commercial operations and thus strike. In this way, the amount of the benefit is deposited into accounts created by them, instead of going to the real beneficiaries.
Because it is national in scope, the agency reports massive fraud attempts. Furthermore, in most cases, scammers use the registry of people who do not know the right to assistance.
With this, the PF believes in the participation of criminal organizations in the scam. That is why he says he will continue to carry out more in-depth investigations to prevent new cases.
