Operation SP against a criminal faction seizes explosives, weapons and luxury cars | Saint Paul

Five people were arrested and one of the targets died during a confrontation with the police on the coast of São Paulo. In action, the Special Tactical Action Group (Gate) was activated after explosives were found at the suspect’s direction.

In total, 12 arrest warrants and 40 search and seizure warrants are executed in the state of São Paulo.

During the searches, the researchers found more than R $ 100,000 in cash. Several luxury vehicles and drug portions were collected, in addition to a 9mm caliber pistol, ammunition and eight cartridges of explosive emulsion (TNT).

Agents also located various electronic equipment and documents, some of which were related to property ownership.

Until 10 am, nine investigated remained at large. The orders were carried out in the São Paulo capital, in cities of the Metropolitan Region, Baixada Santista and in cities of the interior.

According to the Public Ministry, one of the objectives of the operation is to stop the criminals who took control of the faction after the main leaders were transferred to federal prisons in February 2019.

The researchers indicate that the current command would be made up of 21 people. Targets living in Bolivia, Paraguay and even Africa have been identified.

“Some targets are at large, possibly in Paraguay and Bolivia, or even in Africa, but the importance has been to gather evidence against these elements, to ensure temporary arrests. It is the operation that is now considered the most important after the removal of the leadership.” , said. prosecutor Lincoln Gakyia, a member of the task force investigating the faction.

The operation also aims to arrest the men who were allegedly commissioned by Marco Williams Herbas Camacho, Marcola, to execute Gakyia. The prosecutor was in charge of requesting the transfer of the heads of the PCC to federal prisons last year.

In August this year, Marcola became indicted on the charge of ordering the killing of the São Paulo prosecutor and the head of prisons in 2018.

Last week, the National Penitentiary Department again sent an intelligence report to the São Paulo MP saying that Marcola insists on the plan to assassinate Gakyia. Marcola would have threatened to kill the criminals who did not comply with that order.

In addition to the arrests, the operation seeks to dismantle an asset laundering scheme carried out by means of a dollar cable (informal exchange operation, in which international transfers of values ​​are carried out through compensation, without respecting the rules of the national financial system) in Paraguay and in Bolivia.

According to the MP, spreadsheets apprehended by the investigators indicate that the faction moves around R $ 100 million per year, mainly with drug trafficking and collection of securities from its members.

To hide the money collected weekly, those investigated bought vehicles and used real estate with false funds, where they kept cash before making transfers, often through money changers.

The operation is led by a working group made up of eight prosecutors from different regions of the state. In addition to prosecutors, agents of the Public Ministry and more than 250 military police participated in the operation.

The prisoners and the seized objects were transferred to the headquarters of Gaeco (Special Action Group for the Repression of Organized Crime), in the center of São Paulo, but must be transferred to maximum security prisons in the Presidente Prudente region (CRP of President Bernardes and President Venceslau Penitentiary 2) this Monday.

According to the Public Ministry, the investigation began in 2018, after the arrest of the head of the financial sector of the faction.

The documents seized with him led investigators to Eduardo Aparecido de Almeida, known as Pisca, also arrested in 2018, in a luxurious mansion in Asunción, Paraguay.