The Federal Police of Santa Catarina launched Operation Ouranós this Tuesday (28) to dismantle a criminal organization that operated a structure similar to the financial pyramid, from financial institutions and capital market agents without authorization or registration with the Central Bank of Santa Catarina. Brazil and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In this action, at the request of the PF, the Court ordered the blocking and seizure of approximately R$ 400 million in the assets of those being investigated, including 473 properties, 10 boats, 1 plane, 40 luxury cars, 111 bank accounts, in addition to 3 private funds. investment.
The mega-operation carries out 28 search and seizure warrants and 11 precautionary measures other than arrest against 12 individuals and more than 50 companies, such as the use of electronic ankle bracelets.
The targets are in São Paulo, Balneário Camboriú (SC), Palhoça (SC), Porto Alegre (RS) and Curitiba (PR). There are no arrest warrants.
According to the PF, the scheme consisted of operating a securities distributor (DTVM) to raise funds in the order of more than R$1 billion and approximately 7 thousand investors located in 17 states and abroad, through a public offering of collective investment contracts (CIC) for application in supposed cryptocurrency arbitration, with fixed and variable remunerations, without any control, registration or authorization from the competent bodies.
Based on this billion-dollar fundraising, investigations show that the resources were transferred to several accounts, from different companies, through asset shielding, with the aim of emptying the assets of the clandestine financial institution.
The tracking of illicit resources showed that those investigated carried out “money centrifugation”, a system in which several levels are used in passing accounts, with bank transfers being divided.
The investigations also identified investments with possible origins in drug trafficking, crimes against the national financial system and business and tax fraud.
The investigation began in 2020 and found that the illicit actions began in Balneário Camboriú, then in Curitiba, later extending to the economic center of the country, in São Paulo.
The facts investigated constitute, in theory, the crimes of money laundering, criminal organization and crimes against the national financial system, among them, operating a financial institution without authorization, irregular offering of securities, illegal exercise of investment advice.
Source: CNN Brasil
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