Cao do Amaral Coelho, who was appointed as a scout for the capital’s First Command during the attack that killed whistleblower Antonio Vinicius Gretzbach, received money from companies investigated for money laundering from organized crime, according to police.
These companies were the target of operations carried out by Deic (State Criminal Investigation Department) on Thursday (4).
Ronaldo Sayegh, Dyke’s deputy director, said two of them made deposits to a man who then passed the amounts to scouts.
Kauê was not the target of the operation. He has an open arrest warrant for his role in Gritzbach’s death.
“For us, it confirmed that, yes, organized crime, and more specifically the PCC, was behind these companies, or rather, used these companies to launder their capital,” he said.
The Civil Police of São Paulo carried out an operation on Thursday against a gang being investigated for PCC money laundering. Six arrest warrants and 48 search and seizure warrants were issued.
None of the six arrest targets were found.
One hundred Deic police officers participated in Operation Falso Mercúrio in the capital city of São Paulo and Greater São Paulo.
According to the Public Security Secretariat, the court ordered the seizure of 49 properties, three ships, and 257 vehicles registered in the name of the suspects.
The accounts of at least 20 individuals and 37 legal entities have been blocked by court order.
Investigations conducted by the Third General Investigation Department indicate the formation of a money laundering structure for crimes such as drug trafficking, embezzlement and gambling.
The network, according to the police, operated in three areas: fundraisers, those responsible for collecting money; intermediaries responsible for transferring and hiding resources; And the ultimate beneficiaries, who received the money that was actually laundered.