The Brazilian federal police, in conjunction with tax authorities and other agencies, carried out the largest operation against organized crime in its history. The action against the first command of the capital, an organization linked to drug trafficking, reveals connections to financial capital. teleSUR
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00:00We're going now to Brazil. The federal police, in conjunction with tax authorities and other agencies, carried out the largest operation against organized crime in its history.
00:09The action against the first command of the capital, an organization linked to drug trafficking, reveals connection to financial capital.
00:17Our colleague Ignacio Lemus gives us the details.
00:19Amidst United States' rhetoric of fighting drug trafficking as an excuse for military occupation of the region,
00:32Brazil carried out the largest police operation in its history with 1,400 agents to dismantle a criminal scheme by the criminal organization First Command of the capital in the fuel sector.
00:42Search and arrest warrants were issued in eight states.
00:45The hidden carbon operation discovered that the group evaded the equivalent of more than us $1.4 billion in taxes.
01:01We managed to decipher the very sophisticated money trail.
01:05There are many layers. For example, linking closed funds in layers to which, in order to get to the criminal's assets,
01:11you need the intelligence of auditors who open the accounts of those funds to understand where the money is coming from.
01:26If it weren't for that, we wouldn't have been able to get to more than a thousand gas stations, for refineries,
01:31and more than a thousand trucks, at the disposal of organized crime to transport fuel, which is generally adulterated.
01:37Sometimes the adulteration begins at the import stage, with fraud.
01:51In other words, it is an extremely capillary scheme from a material point of view,
01:56and extremely sophisticated from a financial point of view.
01:58The organization used the legal fuel market as a means of illicit enrichment through the financial market and its satellites in tax hands.
02:13There is a key figure in money laundering, that is, digital technology companies serving the financial market,
02:20which offer payment, credit, and investment services at a lower cost than traditional banks.
02:25They do not have physical branches and are difficult to regulate.
02:30Their activities were authorized during the government of Jair Bolsonaro.
02:33Organized crime today is very sophisticated because it is in politics, in football, in the justice system.
02:45It is everywhere.
02:46It is a very powerful international force.
02:49What we have discovered is that there are many people linked to organized crime.
02:53More than 350 individuals and companies are involved in economic, environmental, and financial crimes, including money laundering and tax fraud.
03:07The first command of the capital controls at least 40 investment funds, with assets exceeding $5.4 billion,
03:14according to the Federal Revenue Service, Brazil's tax authority.
03:17The first capital command is the largest criminal organization in Brazil, and its growth was financed through drug trafficking.
03:25For the first time, an operation against the group is not entering the Favlis armed, but rather the epicenter of the financial market.
03:35It is very significant that Faria Lima, that center of wealth in the city of São Paulo,
03:43is the focus of an operation that demonstrates its link to the PCC.
03:46This is because traditionally, the mainstream media and political sectors linked to the right-wing
03:54have tried to link the first capital command to the poorest, blackest sectors of society, to the peripheries.
04:05First capital command linked funds financed the purchase of a port terminal for ethanol plants,
04:111,600 tanker trucks, and more than 100 properties, including multimillion-dollar estates in the interior of São Paulo.
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