Investigations carried out by the Integrated Force to Combat Organized Crime (FICCO) as part of Operation Mosaico indicate that the First Capital Command (PCC) structured in the Federal District a network of WhatsApp groups organized by administrative regions, used as a central tool for command, control and financing of the faction.
Far from simple channels of conversation, these groups functioned as operational cells, responsible for managing everything from the routines of their members to the collection of resources to support criminal activities. Each group acted in a territorialized manner, following local dynamics in areas such as Ceilândia, Taguatinga, Samambaia, Planaltina, Gama, Paranoá and other regions in the DF and surroundings of Goiás. FICCO is a force coordinated by the Federal Police (PF).
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In these documents, direct orders were issued, tasks were distributed, and financial actions were organized, including internal raffles, boxes, and other forms of collection with the aim of raising funds to purchase weapons, pay lawyers, and operational expenses of the faction.
Control and financing
Analysis of seized mobile phones revealed that although collection was decentralized, control of decisions remained centralized. Each region had direct officials, responsible for reporting to higher levels of the CCP hierarchy.
These local operators:
- They organized draws and periodic collections;
- They controlled the compulsory contributions of members;
- They transmitted values to higher authorities;
- They monitored the behavior of members in their field of activity.
The logic almost reproduces an economic model, in which each region functions as a sector with well-defined objectives and financial obligations. Within this structure, one of the most sensitive groups was the “discipline” group, responsible for monitoring lower-ranking members, especially those who were free.
This sector served as the faction’s internal inspector, evaluating conduct, demanding results, and applying sanctions. It is in this context that so-called death lists appear – informal documents that collect the names of individuals considered traitors, undisciplined or suspected of having broken with the CCP.
Monitored targets
Known internally as “decrees”, these objectives are followed until the execution order is put into practice. According to the researchers, the lists do not appear randomly. They are the result of internal reports, exchanges of messages and validations by members with greater decision-making power.
One of the cases that materializes this process occurred in September 2024, in Planaltina. A man was murdered after, according to the investigation, he was “convicted” of breaking with the PCC and attempting to migrate to a rival faction, the Comando Vermelho (CV).
For investigators, the homicide is not an isolated episode, but the result of a decision previously taken in the faction’s digital environments, reinforcing the thesis according to which violence is preceded by an organized flow of information and orders.
This network allowed the CCP to maintain cohesion and discipline, even with part of its members incarcerated, demonstrating the faction’s ability to operate remotely and continuously.
Operation Mosaic
The dismantling of the structure began with Operation Mosaico, launched on December 18, when security forces identified and reached what they consider to be a PCC command center in the Federal District.
17 temporary arrest warrants and 17 search and seizure warrants were executed in various regions of the Federal District and surrounding municipalities. More than 100 police officers took part in the action, involving civil police, military police, the prison system and air support.
The operation was based on the technical analysis of electronic devices, which revealed the extent of the criminal network, the territorial sectorization and the existence of orders linked both to the financing and to the practice of violent crimes.
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