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The businessman Fredy da Silva Gonçalves Bento, 37, investigated by the Civil Police on suspicion of money laundering for the drug trafficker André Oliveira Macedo, 43, André do Rap, a member of the PCC (First Command of the Capital), took a photo with President Jair Bolsonaro in a charity soccer match on the 28th, in Vila Belmiro, in Santos (SP).
Fredy played in the preliminary with the blue team and Bolsonaro in another match with the white team. The sporting event was part of the XVI edition of Christmas without Hunger, which was held to collect food and toys for children and families in need, especially in the Baixada Santista region.
Fredy’s blue team roster didn’t have his name on it. In a note delivered to the press, the GSI (Office of Institutional Security) of the federal government reported that the charity event was not organized by the Presidency of the Republic, that the office is not responsible for the president’s agenda, nor does it have police power.
According to GSI, President Bolsonaro was invited to participate in the event, attended the soccer match and was subject to the security measures and protocols provided to guarantee his integrity.
Civil police say that before the game, Bolsonaro had never had contact with Fredy and did not even know that the businessman is being investigated for money laundering, because otherwise he probably would not take a photo with him.
Businessman denies connection to CCP
The Civil Police began investigating Fredy for money laundering in June 2019, after arresting a man accused of drug trafficking in Itaquera, in eastern São Paulo. With him, 14 cell phone devices were seized.
In one of the lines, there was contact with Fredy and other people accused of ties to the CCP. The suspects’ phone calls were intercepted with judicial authorization. The Civil Police opened an investigation to find out the businessman’s participation in the money laundering of André do Rap. The process is carried out in secret of justice.
Fredy He was heard by the Civil Police on June 24, 2019. He denied knowing André do Rap and also claimed that he never committed a crime of money laundering.
The businessman also said that he was a military policeman for two months and then started selling clothes. He added that he acquired stores and also holds art events with famous singers.
Fredy would use orange for money laundering
The suspicion of the Civil Police is that the money from drug trafficking to Belgium, Portugal, Italy and Africa, made through the port of Santos, is sent to Fredy through real estate agencies, restaurants, car and clothing stores, beauty salons and camelodrom boxes in Baixada Santista.
Fredy’s name first appeared in the media in August 2020, in an investigative report by journalist Rodrigo Hidalgo, shown on Jornal da Band, about money laundering involving members of the PCC.
The column investigates the situation since the soccer match played in Santos, on the 28th.
André do Rap is considered one of the largest drug traffickers in Brazil. He was detained by the São Paulo Civil Police in September 2019 at a property in Angra dos Reis, on the south coast of Rio de Janeiro. He was released in October last year thanks to a habeas corpus granted by Minister Marco Aurélio de Mello, of the STF (Federal Supreme Court).
