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Vieira submitted the draft opinion this morning and is reading it in the Senate Committee on the Constitution and Justice (CCJ).
— The progress of organized crime in Brazil is unfolding before our eyes. Today the head of the Rio Assembly was arrested. So, I think understanding what organized crime is should be an introduction. Organized crime is not just the personification of poor people in slums with guns. Organized crime is a powerful economic structure, penetrated into all branches of power inside and outside this country — said the Senator.
The President of the International Court of Justice, Otto Alencar (PSD-BA), defended approval of the text:
– There is no doubt that a criminal organization cannot take over the state and seize control of the legislative assembly in a state like Rio de Janeiro. Otto said that agreeing to this matter is essential, important and relevant at this moment.
Basilar was arrested Tuesday morning by federal police. The operation was launched to combat the actions of public officials involved in the leaking of confidential information from the investigation that arrested state Rep. Thiego Raymundo dos Santos Silva, known as TH Goyas. According to the police forces, this illegal action obstructed the investigation conducted as part of Operation Zarjun.
National Front agents are on the streets to execute a preventive arrest warrant and eight search and seizure warrants, as well as a summons to comply with non-prison precautionary measures, issued by the Supreme Federal Court (STF).
On the day of Operation Zargun, the National Police Forces informed that an investigation would be opened to investigate a possible leak of the operation. Suspicion arose because T. H. Goias left his home the night before the operation that was to effect his arrest. The politician was located at another address.
This measure takes place in the context of the decision of the Federal Supreme Court in Judgment ADPF 635/RJ (ADPF das Favelas), which decided, among other measures, that the Federal Police must conduct investigations into the activities of the main violent criminal groups active in the state and their relationships with public officials.
On September 3, state lawmaker Thiego Raymundo dos Santos Silva, known as TH Goias, was arrested in a luxury apartment in Barra da Tijuca, the western region of Rio. According to the investigation, TH Goyas used his mandate in the Legislative Assembly of Rio (Alerg) to benefit organized crime. He is accused of brokering the purchase and sale of drugs, guns and anti-drone equipment destined for Complexo do Alemão, as well as appointing Gabriel Dias de Oliveira’s wife, Indio do Lixao – who was identified as a drug trafficker and was also arrested – to a parliamentary position.
18 preventive arrest warrants were issued, 15 of which were effectively executed, as well as 22 search and seizure warrants, with actions at addresses in Barra da Tijuca, Fregesia, in the Western Region, and in Copacabana, in the Southern Region. In Alaj, federal police officers and prosecutors collected a bag of seized items.
Understanding the Antiaction Project
The project opinion imposes a new tax on betting shops to finance the fight against organized crime, with the potential to generate up to 30 billion Brazilian reais annually for intelligence operations, federal prisons and integrated security forces.
The amounts will constitute a fund based on the contribution to intervention in the economic field (Cide) imposed on bets. The value was estimated based on corporate revenue accounts announced by the Central Bank.
In addition to the new funding source, Vieira rewrote the project approved by the deputies, abolishing the crimes of “organized social sphere” and “preference for regulated social sphere” proposed by MP Guilherme Dayret (PP-SP), the project rapporteur in the Council.
The Senator returned to the Ministry of Justice’s idea of introducing the crime of “criminal faction” in the Criminal Organizations Law (12850/2013), punishable by imprisonment from 15 to 30 years. The text also provides for an increase in the “qualifying faction” penalty that will be applied to crime leaders.
“The penalty is applied twice if the agent exercises individual or collective leadership of the criminal faction, but does not personally carry out the executions,” the report says.
The penalty can be up to 120 years in prison if a child or teenager participates in the criminal organization; Competition among civil servants or infiltration into the public sector; Product destination abroad and transnational characteristics; Contact between other criminal organizations; the use of firearms, explosives and drones; Death or injury committed against authorities; And obstructing the actions of security forces.
As a complement, Vieira equated factional crime with private militia crime for all legal purposes. The crimes covered by this article are not subject to pardon, pardon, pardon, bail or conditional release.