10/10/2024 – 19:11
The Federal Audit Court (TCU) sentenced, on October 2, a woman from Campo Grande (MS) to return R$3,194,516.77 that she received, for more than 30 years, in an irregular military pension. Ana Lúcia Umbelina Galache de Souza used false documents to pretend to be the daughter of a former Second World War combatant, and received the benefit between 1988 and 2022.
THE Estadão She contacted Ana Lúcia Umbelina Galache and the Federal Public Defender’s Office (DPU), which defends her, but had not received any response until the publication of this text.
In addition to the return of all pensions deposited over 34 years, the value of which was historically corrected by the TCU, Ana Lúcia was also ordered to pay a fine of R$1 million for damage to the treasury. She is also prevented from holding public office until 2032. The case was revealed by the Metrópoles portal and confirmed by Estadão.
This was not the first setback suffered by Campo Grande. In February last year, she was sentenced by the Superior Military Court (STM) to three years and three months in prison for the crime of embezzlement. The DPU appealed the decision, stating that it had no intent, that is, no intention to commit the infraction.
As advanced by Fausto’s Blogfrom EstadãoMinister Artur Vidigal, from the STM, released the judgment on the appeal. In the process currently underway in the Military Court, it is estimated that Ana Lúcia received R$3.7 million from public coffers between 1988 and 2022.
According to the STM ruling, the woman had the help of her grandmother, Conceição Galache de Oliveira, to defraud the documents. In the 1980s, when she was still a teenager, she was sent a false birth certificate that said her name was Ana Lúcia Zarate, daughter of former combatant Vicente Zarate, who died in 1988 without leaving any children. In fact, Vicente was Ana Lúcia’s great-uncle.
According to the sentence, the case was discovered in 2021, when the grandmother demanded R$8,000 from Ana Lúcia and, otherwise, would report her. The complaint was made to the Civil Police of Mato Grosso do Sul (PC-MS) and the elderly woman died shortly afterwards.
“(Ana Lúcia) also confirmed that her Army pension is currently suspended and that everything came to light after her grandmother Conceição demanded R$8,000.00, otherwise she would denounce her, and she ended up denouncing it. She confirmed that she used the name Ana Lúcia Zarate only for military pension purposes and that this name appeared on her military identity”, says an excerpt from the STM sentence.
The woman confessed to having committed the crime of embezzlement to the STM, and said that the crime was possible thanks to the delivery of a false birth certificate, in 1988, by her grandmother. As she has already passed away, Conceição is not criminally liable for her crimes.
On social media, such as Instagram and Facebook, the woman introduces herself as “Ana Lúcia Galache”, dispensing with the surname that irregularly guaranteed her military pension for more than three decades.
According to the TCU, Ana Lúcia received, between 2004 and 2022, a monthly pension of R$4,952 (values historically corrected by the Court of Auditors). Between 1988 and 2003, deposits varied between R$2,028 and R$8,299.80.
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