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This morning the PF (Federal Police) unleashed a mega police operation against members of the PCC (First Command of the Capital). According to the PF, the action aims to investigate drug trafficking and money laundering by members of the criminal group throughout the country.
The action involves about 1,100 federal police officers, who execute 623 judicial orders, of which 422 are under preventive arrest (without a deadline) and 201 search and seizure orders, in 19 states and the Federal District, in addition to the judicial blockade of up to R $ 252 million. Today’s operation was called Caixa Forte – Phase 2.
According to the Federal Police, part of the orders are also carried out in Chile. Of the prison targets, 172 are already being held in 31 prisons in 14 states.
R $ 2 million and US $ 730 thousand (about R $ 4 million) were seized only in one home with an arrest warrant in Santos (São Paulo coast).
The city is considered one of the most important for the CCP, since, from the port, the faction exports large shipments of cocaine to other continents, which represents a large part of the group’s profits.
Identified first phase scheme
According to the PF, “Operation Caixa Forte – Phase 1” identified those responsible for the “Progress Sector” of the faction, which is dedicated to laundering money from trafficking.
This phase would have revealed that the amounts obtained in drug trafficking were, in part, channeled to other bank accounts of the faction, including the accounts of the “Aid Sector”, responsible for rewarding the members of the faction collected in the prisons.
Aug 31, 2020 – Money seized in PF operation against the PCC
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“210 members of the high faction of the faction were identified, collected in federal prisons, who received monthly fees for having held important positions in the criminal organization or carried out missions determined by the leaders, for example, executions of public servants,” he says police. through the note.
To guarantee the receipt of the aid, the PF says that the members of the group pointed out accounts of third parties not belonging to the faction so that the amounts, coming from criminal activities, were hidden and supposedly beyond the reach of criminal justice.
“The action of the Federal Police aims to dismantle the criminal organization through its decapitalization, acting in accordance with the agency’s guidelines to confront organized crime through the patrimonial approach, in addition to the arrest of leaders,” says the corporation.
The detainees are investigated for the crimes of participation in a criminal organization, association for drug trafficking and money laundering, whose penalties can reach 28 years in prison. The action takes place on the 27th anniversary of the founding of the faction, which took place inside the Taubaté (SP) prison.
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