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Today the Federal Police are carrying out Operation King of Crime in São Paulo to dismantle a financial arm that has operated in favor of a São Paulo criminal faction for more than ten years. The investigation prohibited more than 70 companies and blocked, with the authorization of the Justice, bank accounts that exceed R $ 730 million. The operation takes place in three states.
More than 200 officers are serving 13 preventive arrest warrants, 43 search and seizure warrants, in addition to the hijacking of 32 cars, nine motorcycles, two helicopters, a yacht, three boats, 58 trucks, and 42 trailers and semi-trailers, for a total of R $ 32 million. The orders were issued by the VI Federal Criminal Court of São Paulo.
Among the targets are businessmen from the fuel sector and a person who was convicted of participating in the robbery at the Central Bank of Brazil, which occurred in Fortaleza (CE) in 2005. All of them, twenty in total, will be responsible for the crimes of criminal organization and money laundering. of money.
Orders are being executed in apartments and luxury companies in the cities of São Paulo, Bauru (SP), Igaratá (SP), Mongaguá (SP), Guarujá (SP), Tremembé (SP), Londrina (PR), Curitiba ( PR). ) and Balneário Camboriú (SC).
The court also ordered the blocking of these more than R $ 730 million that are in bank accounts of the investigated persons and of legal persons directly or indirectly linked to the suspects and to the blockade, with the state real estate registry offices São Paulo and Balneario Camboriú, of real estate of natural and legal persons, making it impossible to sell these assets. Such a blockade can significantly increase the total amounts related to seized assets.
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During the investigation, the PF tracked financial transactions and identified the existence of a fuel network, including a distributor, that operated for the benefit of the criminal faction, laundering assets of illicit origin, through companies with strong market activity and shell companies . or composed of interposed persons (oranges).
The COAF (Council for the Control of Financial Activities) also delivered financial intelligence reports to the Federal Police pointing out atypical movements of the investigated group, whose value exceeds R $ 30 billion.
The Federal Police also requested, before the court, the interdiction of the financial economic activity of 73 legal entities (gas stations, convenience stores, and consulting and accounting offices) used by the criminal faction for the handling of illicit securities and that will be administered by SENAD (National Secretariat for Drug Policy-MJSP), to ensure that employees and third parties are not harmed.
* With information from Estadão Content
