São Paulo Overhauls Police Integrity Unit After ‘Bazaar’ Corruption Probe

Overview

• State officials named four Civil Police delegates, three Military Police captains and two forensic experts to the Integrity Management Unit to run the SSP’s compliance program.
• Operação Bazaar by the Federal Police and São Paulo prosecutors detained nine suspects, including four Civil Police officers accused of selling impunity in elite departments.
• A judicial order cited a subversion of official duty and authorized 11 preventive arrests plus 23 search-and-seizure warrants at homes, law offices and police facilities.
• Investigators describe laundering that converted cash bribes into meal‑voucher credits and funneled funds through shell firms and simulated imports.
• Doleiros Meire Poza and Leonardo Meirelles are identified as financial operators; Poza was arrested and Meirelles has a warrant and remains at large, while named detainees include delegado João Eduardo da Silva, escrivão Ciro Borges Magalhães Ferraz, and investigators Roldnei Eduardo dos Reis Baptista and Rogério Coichev Teixeira.