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The operation is called Caixa Forte 2 (“Safe 2”) and focuses on cash flows within the criminal syndicate, write Folha de São Paulo and other media. More than a quarter of a trillion reais, equivalent to around 400 million Swedish crowns, within its financial infrastructure has been blocked, federal police said in a statement.
Kill bonus
Investigators say they have identified a money laundering scheme by tracking payments linked to a couple of hundred PCC members already in jail. The payments must have served as a kind of monthly salary for loyal members, plus bonuses, for example, for murders committed.
PCC (Primeiro Cartel da Capital), which was formed in São Paulo in 1993, is believed to have just over 30,000 members. The organization controls drug trafficking in Brazil, with branches in Africa, Asia and Europe.
Brutala more offensive
According to the authorities, the PCC is led by Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, 52, known as Marcola, who is serving a 200-year sentence in a high-security prison in Brasilia. Incarceration is not necessarily an obstacle to continued crime in Brazil, as the PCC and other unions often have great power within the walls.
From time to time, the PCC has also launched very brutal offensives in the community. When plans emerged in 2006 to toughen conditions for convicted PCC members in prisons, the gang carried out hundreds of attacks on police stations and patrol cars, killing more than 90 people.
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