R$ 22 thousand: Employee and partner indicted for fraud in PG+Humana

The Civil Police of Ponta Grossa, formally concluded the investigation that found frauds in welfare benefits in the municipality, linked to the municipal program PG + Human. The work resulted in the indictment of a 37-year-old municipal public servant and her 38-year-old partner.

The duo will be responsible for the continued practice of crimes of embezzlement (article 312 of the Penal Code) and insertion of false data in the information system (article 313-A of the Penal Code), conduct whose maximum sentences, added, can reach up to 24 years of imprisonment, in addition to a fine.

The municipal PG+Humana program is an initiative aimed at ensuring the food and nutritional security of families of extreme vulnerability and in a situation of economic undersufficiency registered in the Single Registry (Cadúnico) in Ponta Grossa.

The benefit consists of the monthly transfer of a credit in the range of R$ 220.00 per family destined to the exclusive purchase of basic necessities, food and essential items. The criminal conduct investigated is of particular gravity because it directly withdraws resources from the social assistance budget that should provide the subsistence of needy families in the municipality. The size of the crime investigated is evidenced by the total amount diverted by the maid, of R$ 22,000.21 to the treasury, an amount equivalent to the continued deviation of about 100 portions of the benefit, demonstrating that the irregular conduct was not an isolated fact, but rather practiced repeatedly and dozens of times to the detriment of people in need.

As found, the investigated woman was a social educator in a Social Assistance Reference Center (CRAS) and used the restricted access credentials to administrative systems to fraud records. During the period from November 2025 to July 2026, it issued benefit cards on behalf of registered citizens without their knowledge and even on behalf of already deceased citizens. In order to maintain the continuous release of the credits and circumvent the supervision, the server inserted fictitious reports of technical services that were never performed. In possession of the magnetic cards, the investigated woman and her companion made recurring purchases in accredited supermarket networks in the region, acquiring groceries, personal consumption items and appliances.

The dismantling of the criminal conduct counted on the decisive action of the Social Assistance Foundation of Ponta Grossa (FASPG). Through rigorous internal audits and data crossing, the municipal administration identified operational discrepancies, collected testimonies from injured beneficiaries and carried out the preventive removal of the server from her functions in the CRAS. The technical documentation produced by the city founded the representation of the Police Delegate before the Judiciary, which issued precautionary orders for removal from public office and for search and seizure of the residence of the couple.

During the fulfillment of the search warrant, PCPR seized the smartphone of the server. The expertise promoted after judicial authorization for data extraction revealed a robust evidence base: conversations recorded in the WhatsApp application among the investigated (available in annex to this note) containing photographs of lots of social cards, consultations of balances in real time, checking of names of beneficiaries and explicit negotiations for the discharge of private expenses of the couple with public funds.

The criminal materiality and authorship are also fully demonstrated in the filming of the internal circuit of surveillance of supermarkets of the city (also annexed). The images captured the couple operating the diverted social cards directly in the boxes, on dates and times that exactly coincide with the transaction records issued by the Viasoft Pay system.

Called to testify before the police authority, the investigators chose to exercise the constitutional right to remain silent during the interrogations, refusing to answer questions about the frauds.

The police procedure was duly reported and referred to the Judiciary and the State Public Prosecutor's Office of Paraná for knowledge and adoption of the appropriate measures.

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