The task force to recover André do Rap will cost SP R $ 2 million every 120 days; ‘willingness to send the bill to the minister’, says Doria | Saint Paul

“The expense to recover the fugitive André do Rap, who was freed by a habeas corpus of Minister Marco Aurélio de Mello, represents about R $ 2 million for the public coffers of São Paulo. It makes me want to send the invoice to the minister ”Said Doria during a press conference this Friday afternoon (16).

“The expense is scheduled for a period of 120 days, this does not mean that we are believing, trusting or affirming that André do Rap will be captured in 120. But every 120 days, we will have this expense, which is mobilization of equipment, operating expenses, equipment costs and daily fees for the police here in the state, ”added the governor.

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Since last Saturday (10), more than 600 civil policemen from the three main security departments of São Paulo have mobilized to locate André Oliveira Macedo, known as André do Rap.

The distributor is considered to be one of the First Capital Command (PCC), faction that works inside and outside the prisons of São Paulo.

He was released from prison on Saturday morning (10), after the Minister of State granted him habeas corpus. Federal Supreme Court (STF) Marco Aurélio Mello.

Hours later, that same day, the president of the STF revoked the precautionary measure and ordered André’s return to prison. The decision was confirmed by the full Court on Thursday (10).

In addition to São Paulo, agents of the Federal Police (PF) and the civil police of Paraná and Santa Catarina are looking for the trafficker.

Due to the danger of the trafficker, who may have fled Brazil and sought refuge in another country, his name, photo and information were included in the restricted list of Interpol, a kind of international police, where the world’s most wanted criminals are.

There is the possibility that you will travel in your private jet until the Paraguay, a Bolivia or in Colombia, for example.

The criminal also began to appear on the lists of bandits wanted by the Ministry of Justice and to Civil police of Sao Paulo.

Despite the repercussions of the case, as of Wednesday (14) the police had still not received reports, not even anonymous ones, on the possible whereabouts of André do Rap. Anyone with information about the dealer can call the number (11) 3311-3148 is he Direct line, fur 181. You do not need to identify yourself.

André had been in prison since September 2019, when he was found in a luxury condominium in Angra dos Reis, on the coast of Rio de Janeiro, in an operation by the São Paulo Civil Police.

At the time, he was arrested for international drug trafficking after being a fugitive from justice for almost six years.

The STF minister, Marco Aurélio Mello, released André do Rap after responding to a request from the drug trafficker’s defense, who alleged that his client had been in prison since late last year without a final sentence for preventive detention in the state of Rio de Janeiro. And that, according to the defense, exceeded the term established by Brazilian law.

Brazilian procedural law changed in 2020, with the anti-crime package, which requires provisional prisons to be reviewed every 90 days to see if it is necessary to keep the prison, which, according to Mello, did not happen in the case of André do Rap .

He was imprisoned for two second-instance convictions for international drug trafficking, with sentences of 25 years, nine months and five days in prison in a closed regime.

Marco Aurélio Mello had also granted habeas corpus in favor of André do Rap in these two processes. In one of them there was still no final judgment. Therefore, the minister understood that he should be released immediately.

Survey conducted by G1 shows that the minister has already released about 80 prisoners with the same criteria as André do Rap.

For him Public Ministry (MP) From São Paulo, the trafficker could have been released from jail, traveled to Maringá (PR) and shipped to a South American country that borders Brazil.

Prosecutors and prosecutors said that they had already asked the Justice to keep André do Rap prison.

As a dangerous criminal, the intelligence services monitored André’s movement from a distance and are sure that the smuggler used a private plane to escape from Brazil.

On Thursday (15), the majority of the ministers of the Federal Supreme Court voted in favor of keeping the André do Rap prison. They understood that it is not possible to free a criminal considered highly dangerous and who had already fled before.

Promoter Lincoln gakiya, which investigates the CCP’s action, and the delegate Fabio Pinheiro Lopes, who coordinated the operation that arrested André do Rap in 2019, said during the week that it will be very difficult to get the drug trafficker to be arrested again.

“It is not impossible, but it will be difficult,” says Gakiya, of the Special Action Group for the Suppression of Organized Crime (Gaeco) of the Public Ministry.

“It was a cold shower for us. It uses several ghost companies, so to capture it again we will have a great difficulty. It is the cocaine wholesaler in the country, “says Pinheiro Lopes, delegate and director of the State Department of Homicides and Personal Protection.