Brazil Mounts Multi-State Raids on Organized Crime, Freezes Up to R$1 Billion

Overview

• PCDF agents executed 96 warrants in the Federal District and six other states, and a judge ordered up to R$1 billion in assets blocked in a case that links drug sales to a structured laundering scheme.
• Federal police and tax auditors dismantled an operation that smuggled electronics from Paraguay and sold them on Mercado Livre, Shopee and Magalu using fake invoices, arresting 20 people and serving 32 search warrants.
• In Pará, Operation Pentágono detained two suspects in the 2023 attack in Confresa, a strike on a Brinks base that used explosives, cost about R$3 million, and failed to breach the main coffer.
• Bahia prosecutors ran Phase 4 of Premium Mandatum, making six temporary arrests in Juazeiro and Petrolina and executing additional warrants in Rio de Janeiro against an alleged hierarchy for drug sales and laundering.
• Paraná’s Gaeco detained police influencer Marcionílio “Sancho Loko” Cambuhy Junior after finding moral‑effect grenades and irregular ammunition, prompting an internal probe by the state military police.