Ticket spree: INSS president bought dozens of airline tickets to go to RJ

Brasilia DF) – Always on Thursdays, Fridays or Mondays, the interim president of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), Glauco Wamburg, usually travels from Brasília to Rio de Janeiro. The justifications for the airlifts and which appear on the Transparency Portal are supposedly official agendas and of interest to the federal autarchy. However, many of the commitments were not, in fact, fulfilled by Wamburg.

Over the course of two months, Metrópoles checked each of the agendas after civil servants denounced that the president of the INSS supposedly created fictitious meetings to justify trips to the capital of Rio de Janeiro and teach social security law classes at a private college, Universidade Santa Úrsula, in Botafogo, a neighborhood in the south of Rio de Janeiro. A team from the portal visited the institution and recorded Professor Glauco Wamburg’s timetable. He enters the classroom at four times, between 6:30 pm and 10:30 pm, always on Mondays.

A “passage spree” promoted by Glauco is a subject that runs through the corridors of the INSS and started to be commented frequently by the servers.

“This matter has come to light now, but it is public and notorious for those who know the routine in the municipality. Glauco always traveled at the expense of public coffers to teach at a private institution and resolve private matters”

said an INSS source heard by the column.

In all, in the period analyzed by the column, the tickets cost the government around R$ 65 thousand. Of this amount, more than R$ 15,000 were paid to Wamburg in per diems for the trips.

See images of the INSS president’s timetable as a professor at a Rio de Janeiro university:

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The column thoroughly investigated the motivations presented by Glauco Wamburg to justify the trips paid for with public money and found inconsistencies in the periods presented. Between April 3rd and 4th, for example, Glauco requested a round trip from Rio de Janeiro to “participating in meetings at the INSS regional superintendence in Rio de Janeiro”. Tickets plus accommodation cost BRL 3,696.78.

According to the superintendence itself, on April 3 “there were no meetings on site”. On April 4, on the other hand, the regional superintendent, Marcos Fernandes, met with some servers to discuss internal matters and, later on the same day, attended another meeting via videoconference. In none of the cases was Wamburg’s name mentioned as a participant in the meetings.

On March 27, Glauco urgently requested a one-way ticket to Rio de Janeiro, in the amount of R$ 3,046.26. When asked, the Regional Superintendence of Rio de Janeiro informed that Marcos Fernandes met with the state deputy of Volta Redonda, Jari Oliveira. Again, Wamburg’s name was not mentioned as a participant in the meeting.

meeting with minister

On May 29, Glauco allegedly requested tickets to Brasília in order to attend a meeting with the Minister of Social Security. At the time, he was already in Rio de Janeiro. However, according to the Ministry of Social Security itself, “there is no record of a meeting between the Minister of Social Security and INSS employees on the aforementioned date”.

On April 17, Wamburg requested a ticket to Rio de Janeiro on the grounds that he would accompany the Minister of Social Security, Carlos Lupi, during meetings at the Secretariat of Labor and in negotiations for the purchase and sale of Mercadinho São José, in Rio de Janeiro. However, according to the Ministry of Social Security, only the ministry’s special advisor, Bruno Ribeiro Cardoso, accompanied the minister on the date.

On May 15th and 16th, Glauco requested tickets, again to Rio de Janeiro, to participate in a meeting with the Secretary of Labor of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro in order to deal with the following topics: partnerships in steering actions between the INSS and the secretariat , as well as progress in the purchase and sale of the Mercadinho São José property.

Meeting with the commander of the PM

In addition to this supposed meeting, he also had an appointment with the PMRJ secretary general and colonel to discuss a property in Campo Grande, which would be a partnership between the INSS and the PMERJ. When contacted, the Department of Labor of the Municipality of RJ stated that “on the 15th and 16th there was no meeting of the secretary to deal with these matters with members of the INSS”.

Activated, the PMERJ said that Glauco Wamburg was at the headquarters on March 24, accompanying the Minister of Social Security, Carlos Lupi. However, they chose not to answer whether or not there was a meeting between Wamburg and the general secretary colonel of the PM on May 15 and 16.

The report found that reasons alleged by Glauco Wamburg for other trips involving the Brasília-Rio de Janeiro bridge followed the same patterns of inconsistency.

Activated, the INSS communication advisory had not responded until the last update of this text. The space remains open for any demonstrations.

*With information from Metrópoles

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