SP prosecutor conducts operation against criminal faction | Saint Paul

In total, 12 arrest warrants are executed for suspects found on the street and about 50 search and seizure warrants, all in São Paulo.

According to the Public Ministry, the objective of the operation is to arrest the criminals who took control of the faction after the main bosses were transferred to federal prisons in February 2019.

The current command, according to the investigation, would be made up of 21 people. The investigation identified targets said to live in Bolivia, Paraguay and even Africa.

In addition to the arrests, the operation focuses on dismantling a money laundering scheme carried out using a dollar cable in Paraguay and 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.

The operation is led by a working group made up of eight prosecutors from different regions of the state, with the support of the Rota Military Police.

Prisoners and seized objects must be taken to the Gaeco headquarters in the city of São Paulo, in the center of the city, but must be transferred to maximum security prisons in the Presidente Prudente region (Presidente Bernardes CRP and Penitenciaría Presidente Venceslau 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.