Kim Kataguiri: Unfortunately, scams on the internet are happening more and more, affecting mainly the elderly.
Kim Kataguiri: By the way, within that bill that I approved, to increase penalties for theft, robbery, receiving stolen goods, fraud, in the fraud area we turned it into an unconditional public criminal action, that is... Before, you forced an elderly person who suffered a scam to file a complaint, to go to the judiciary, to go to the Public Prosecutor's Office to punish the criminal who committed that fraud.
But many times the elderly person feels embarrassed about having been scammed, he thinks it's his fault and not the criminal's, he feels ashamed and does not go to justice.
Kim Kataguiri: Now we allowed the Public Prosecutor's Office, without the need for anyone's prompting, to pursue that criminal.
Kim Kataguiri: and now with this other report approved in the Finance Committee, we increase the penalty for crimes committed in the virtual environment; we know that more and more... crimes involving obtaining someone's credit card password, getting access to someone's Pix, getting access to that person's investment wallet.