MP denounces the use of secret budget fraud SUS

Deputy Attorney Lucas Furtado, from Public Ministry next to Federal Court of Audit (TCU)Request to open an investigation by the court to investigate the use of secret budget To pay for fraud using the Unified Health System, the SUS. The scandal was revealed by reporter Brno Perez of the magazine Biao. Millions of reais from the secret budget Centrão controls in the National Congress are channeled, according to the report, to municipal councils that falsify figures in the health field.

“These are serious allegations of possible fraud against the Unified Health System – SUS, observed in several municipalities in the state of Maranhão, including cases of suspected embezzlement of public resources,” says Furtado. “The municipalities will return part of the budget resources that the municipalities receive for health measures,” he says.

“It is certain and without a doubt that the decision amendments – the so-called ‘RP-9’ – have resulted in the non-transparent implementation of a significant portion of the budget funds, as well as the allocation of related expenditures,” he says. “This irregularity, in and of itself, even if the ‘take here’ vote of the government’s interest in Congress is not confirmed, compromises or renders control useless, constitutes sufficient reason for the TCU’s intervention,” he says.