Denounced by the MPRS, a former Evoti mayor, one of its supporters and a councilor from Takara were found guilty of SUS waiting list fraud

A former mayor of Evoti, a supporter and an elected councilor from Tacuara – all of whom were investigated in Operation F5, in 2016, and denounced by the Public Ministry of Rio Grande do Sul (MPRS), were sentenced on Friday. Oct. 11, charged with SUS waiting list fraud. At sentencing, the former mayor was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison; Both his co-defendant and the Takara consultant were sentenced to 14 years and four months in prison, on charges of committing criminal organization offenses and entering false data into information systems.

In all three cases, the sentences will be implemented under a closed system with a fine. The crimes, according to the MPRS complaint, were committed between April 2013 and November 2015. According to the MPRS complaint, which the court accepted in sentencing, the scheme consisted of obtaining services more quickly at SUS with the aim of obtaining political capital. With the aim of holding municipal elections at the time of events. As a result, the fraud relied on skipping the SUS queue, and to this end, the former mayor of Evoti, with the assistance of a public health employee, from Takara, who is now an elected councilor in the municipality, which was listed in the Evoti patient appointment system on the Takara waiting list, always used Wrong data.

Prosecutor Flavio Duarte, from the Specialized Criminal Justice Prosecutor’s Office of Porto Alegre, was in charge of the investigation and complaint, partnering with the Tacuara Prosecutor’s Office to prosecute the criminal case.

Operation F5

The three women were investigated through Operation F5, launched by the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Specialized Criminal Justice in Porto Alegre on October 27, 2016, when two search and seizure warrants were executed at homes in Evoti and another at a health center in Tacuara. The investigations monitored 14 cases, such as plastic surgery on the eyelids and nose, ophthalmology appointments scheduled two weeks after the appointment (the wait is usually more than a year), in addition to an appointment with the oncologist scheduled for it. 15 days after inclusion in the order.