Four Bodies Found in Heliópolis Linked to Missing Funk-Producer Worker

Overview

• Police discovered four bodies buried in a Sabesp environmental protection area in Heliópolis and opened a DHPP homicide inquiry with remains sent to the IML for forensic examination.
• The Civil Police identified one corpse as Jonas Barros de Oliveira, known as 'Gigante,' who is reported to be among employees of a funk production company who disappeared last week.
• Sabesp says it is cooperating with authorities and investigators found uniforms linked to the producer at the burial site, raising the hypothesis that the area was used as a clandestine grave.
• Separate police-use-of-force probes have advanced: officers in São Gonçalo admitted confusing a work tool for a rifle and were removed from duty, a Manaus pericial report found the slain youth João Paulo did not fire a weapon, and a sindicância was opened after a Rio officer said he lost his bodycam.
• Families and communities have protested and demanded answers while authorities continue forensic work, review bodycam footage and press internal and criminal investigations that could affect prosecutions and police discipline.