The Minas Gerais Civil Police (PCMG) served 15 arrest warrants and 20 search and seizure on Thursday (22) during the Operation Disbelief.
The mandates were fulfilled in Belo Horizonte, cities of the Metropolitan Region, Montes Claros, in the north of the state, and São Sebastião do Paraíso, in the south of Minas Gerais.
The action targeted a criminal organization composed of at least 18 members, including managers and former bank manager, document counterfeiting and intermediaries. The group is responsible for applying millionaire blows, with a loss of over R $ 20 million, using data from individuals and legal entities to obtain fraudulent loan.
The suspects kept a criminal scheme and acted in a structured and divided manner, as explained by the delegate Rafael Gomes, responsible for the investigation.
“The organization had a bridge coordinator between document counterfeiting and managers of the financial institutions. Managers sent CPFs and CNPJs with high score, and the counterfeitors created fake documents using this data and photos of cronies. From there, accounts were opened and high -value loans were hired in the name of the victims,” he said.
In one case, the Civil Police identified a half million reais loan on behalf of a resident of the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region. The victim only discovered the blow by being surprised by the charge. In another example, the delegate described a fraud of $ 100,000, made against a resident of São Sebastião do Paraíso.
Investigations began in September 2024, after a victim from the city of São Sebastião do Paraíso to look for the local police station. In October last year, police managed to arrest one of the main articulars of the scheme in Belo Horizonte.
The investigation revealed that the coup was not limited to individuals. “In addition to the victims who had their names used, there is also direct damage to financial institutions, which were fooled with the use of false documents and connivance of some of its own managers,” said the regional delegate in São Sebastião do Paraíso, Tiago Bordini.
The operation resulted in 97 blocked bank accounts, broken bank and fiscal confidentials. Among the 15 prisoners are four active bank managers and two former manager, as well as fakes and scheme operators. At least three of the detainees confessed to participation, one of them admitting that he even opened 40 fraudulent accounts and received 10% commission on the contracted loans.
According to PCMG, the work of analyzing the seized materials, such as cell phones, computers, documents and bank cards, continue. A new phase of the operation, police are already being planned and our involved and victims can be identified.
This content was originally published in Civil Police arrest 15 people involved in bank frauds in Minas on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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