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The largest Federal Police operation of 2020 launched this Monday (23) in 10 Brazilian states carried out the largest seizure of drugs and money laundering carried out by the criminal organization that began to be identified in September 2017, when a shipment was seized of cocaine in the Port of Paranaguá.
According to delegate Elvis Secco, of the National Coordination for the Repression of Drugs, Weapons and Criminal Factions, only in this operation 11 million euros and 2 million in kind were seized from the criminal organization, whose leader was a Brazilian who lived in Europe and He had a large estate kidnapped by the Federal Police. Also according to the PF, the members of the organization had free transit through Europe with the use of false passports, which also sent cocaine to Africa.
The euros seized by the federal police, a total of 11 million, were in suitcases inside a trunk of a van in Lisbon. Police believe there may be other bunkers hiding drug money. “The great leaders of criminal organizations are in the elite who finance other crimes,” said Chief Elvis Secco.
It was necessary to activate Interpol as many members of the organization lived in other countries. During the operation, 37 planes were seized, one of which was valued at $ 20 million. Several firearms, 200 kilos of cocaine in Paranaguá were seized on Monday (23).
Also according to the Federal Police delegate, the operation of this second (23) ‘broke’ with the structure of the criminal organization inside and outside the country.
7 groups not Brazil
The criminal organization had seven groups in Brazil, with groups that were responsible for the logistics of shipping cocaine to Europe and sub-groups in Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso.
In São Paulo, there were two large logistics groups that shipped via ports. In Rio Grande do Norte, two other large groups sent by fishing boats and loads of fruit.
And two subgroups that operated in Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso.
Operation
400 million were seized in real estate, luxury vehicles, aircraft, with the expectation that new assets will be identified after the fulfillment of the search and seizure orders. The action is jointly with the Federal Treasury, following compliance with the guidelines for the decapitalization of assets, the arrest of leaders and international cooperation, being the largest operation of the year in the fight against money laundering of drug trafficking and in the seizure of cocaine in Brazilian ports, as the organization specializes in shipping cocaine to Europe. The scheme used by the criminals consisted of laundering multi-million dollar assets and assets in Brazil and abroad with the use of various ‘orange’ people and fictitious companies, to give a legitimate appearance to the profit of trafficking. Approximately 670 federal police officers and 30 more employees of the Federal Tax Service.
