São Paulo Police Officially Retire Officer Accused of Killing His Wife

Overview

• The Polícia Militar published a dispatch this week that moves Tenente‑Coronel Geraldo Leite Rosa Neto to the reserve and shifts his pay relationship to São Paulo Previdência (SPPrev), making SPPrev the administrator of any pension payments.
• Geraldo Neto remains in preventive custody and is formally charged with feminicide and fraud after inquiries by the PM Corregedoria and the Polícia Civil were concluded and sent to the judiciary.
• Autopsy and IML reports found injuries incompatible with suicide, and investigators concluded the death of Gisele Alves Santana was a homicide staged as suicide.
• A Conselho de Justificação and a separate disciplinary expulsion process are underway, but loss of rank and cancellation or reduction of pension can occur only after a final decision by the military justice system.
• Family lawyers and critics say the fast administrative retirement gives the accused continued remuneration while proceedings continue; SPPrev can suspend or recalculate payments if courts strip his rank, and the victim's 7‑year‑old daughter currently receives a pension from SPPrev until adulthood.