Who are the seven Red Command heads who were transferred to federal prison?

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Catandovas is the same prison where Fernandinho Beira Mar, the first inmate in the federal penal system, who “inaugurated” the unit in 2006, according to the blog, is held. But they must have no contact with Pira Mar, nor with each other. The transfer came at the request of the Rio government after the massive operation that left 121 people dead in the Alemão and Benha compounds in the northern region of Rio. Before the episode, the state had 58 prisoners in the federal system, but that did not prevent CV from expanding its control.

Find out who the transferred prisoners are

Mai Thor, imprisoned for more than two decades – sentenced to 35 years, 5 months and 26 days

One of the oldest members of the faction, Marco Antonio Pereira Firmino, known as My Thor, is named in lawsuits as the head of drug trafficking in Morro Santo Amaro, in Catete, in the southern region. Imprisoned for more than 23 years. Mai Thor’s first prison term was between 1988 and 1994. Two years later, he returned to the regime, escaped and was arrested again in 2000.

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He was released again and returned to prison in July 2006, where he was sentenced to 22 years and six months. During his sentence, he spent 14 years and two months moving around the federal prison system. He returns to Rio de Janeiro in 2021.

Naldinho, the official spokesman, was sentenced to 81 years, 4 months and 20 days in prison

Arnaldo da Silva Dias, known as Naldinho, was convicted of drug trafficking and murder and spent more than 50 years in prison. He was appointed head of the slums in several cities in southern Rio de Janeiro and a spokesman for the CV, responsible for taking orders from the top to the bottom of the faction.

In February 2024, Naldinho ordered the bandits to call a truce from robberies and wars during the G20 meetings. Civil, military, federal police and the Rio Public Ministry (MPRJ) have been trying to get him out of the state for about a year. Since October last year, at least four applications have been submitted to the VEP by various bodies for prisoner transfer – so far, to no avail.

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Fabricio de Melo de Jesus, or Picinho – sentenced to 65 years, 8 months and 26 days in prison

Fabricio de Melo de Jesus, alias Bicinho, is accused of being the head of drug trafficking in the Dom Bosco neighborhood, in the Volta Redonda. A member of the CV Commission, he responds to trafficking and murder crimes. He was sentenced to 26 years in prison for his involvement in the murder of a man whose body was thrown into the Paraíba do Sul River.

Carlos Vinicius Lirio da Silva, President – ​​sentenced to 60 years, 4 months and 4 days in prison

Carlos Vinicius Lirio da Silva, the head of the Sabao slum in Niteroi, was appointed by the civil police as the mastermind of a plan to use a plane to extract criminals from prison in Pangu, in 2021. He himself would be one of the targets of the rescue, as he was serving a sentence at the time in the Geresino prison complex. According to the plan, two men from the Cabeca gang hijacked a helicopter during a flight in September of the same year. The rescue operation did not take place because the pilot, who was a civilian police officer, responded and fought with the criminals. The plane ended up landing somewhere else and the couple escaped.

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Eliezer Miranda Joachim, or Karim – sentenced to 100 years, 10 months and 15 days in prison

Known as Karim, he is one of the successors of Elias Maloco, a leader of the Baixada Fluminense. Karim has 27 criminal records and a record that includes drug trafficking, murder, kidnapping, and forming a private militia and paramilitary organization. He has already been sentenced to 60 years in prison for an attack in 2007, when he, along with six other accomplices armed with rifles and shotguns, executed a resident who opposed the installation of smoke traps in São João de Mirete. In the same episode, he also tried to kill a police officer and another man.

Alexandre de Jesus Carlos, Shocker – sentenced to 34 years and 6 months in prison

Known as Choque or Coroa, he is a member of the command who was appointed head of the drug trafficking of Manguinhos, in the northern region of Rio. In August this year, he was cleared to undergo surgery at Samaritano Hospital, a high-level unit in Botafogo, in the southern region of Rio. He actually went to a high-risk federal unit, in Mato Grosso do Sul.

Roberto de Souza Brito, Brother Mitralha – sentenced to 50 years, 2 months and 20 days in prison

Known as Brother Mitralha, he is a member of the second echelon of the Comando Vermelho, operating in the Complexo do Alemão. He was arrested for human trafficking in 2007 and sentenced to 50 years, 2 months and 20 days in prison.