Six more investigators of the São Paulo Civil Police were denounced by the prosecutor for integrating a criminal organization that COLLED PROPRINAS OF INFLIGUATORS AND FUNKEIROS who promote gambling and illegal raffles on social networks.
The Special Action Group to Combat Organized Crime (Gaeco) offered the court the complaint against eight people including the six police officers and one lawyer, last Friday (9).
Last Tuesday (6), the Specialized MP group had already reported five people linked to the first command of the capital (CCP), by the scheme. The accusation is the result of Operation Latus Action, which sought to repress Crimes committed through raffles promoted and disseminated on the Internet by people with a large number of followers.
About Friday’s complaint (9), Gaeco points out that one of the accused monitors social networks to identify possible targets of the group. The police involved in the scheme They established investigations against the influencers and came into contact demanding money to file the procedures.
The agents are accused of criminal organization and passive and active corruption with configuration of collective moral damage. In addition to the convictions, the Prosecutor’s Office asks the State to be compensated at R $ 700 thousand.
LATUS ACTIO OPERATION
The first phase of Operation Latus Action was launched on March 12, 2024, when the agents met 15 search and seizure warrants In the cities of Guarujá, Itu and Indaiatuba and in São Paulo.
More than R $ 60 million in properties and luxury vehicles. The goal was Collect more evidence of crimes against the tax order, money laundering and other offenses.
The “Latus Action II” was held on December 12 last year, when A civil policeman was arrested . The funkeiro Mc Paiva was one of the targets of the five search and seizure orders in the second phase.
According to police, artists who promoted illegal rifles feared that investigations conducted by suspected police officers result in court orders which would determine in blocking their profiles on the networks, especially on Instagram.
Therefore, the influencers would have agreed to Pay bribe to agents to avoid economic and image losses.
The third phase of the investigation resulted in the operation of the Federal Police that arrested four civil police officers de Santo André, at ABC Paulista, on April 25th. The agents were crowded in the 6th DP of Santo André.
According to the PF, the investigated agents had instituted procedures for verifying information origin (VPI) to investigate the practice of funkeiros – conduct that can configure criminal misdemeanor for Exploitation of gambling and estelionate and money laundering crimes.
However, the investigation revealed that the true objective of the police was the collection of bribes to the investigated (funkeiros) and their respective lawyers, not to continue the findings.
Latus actio is coordinated by Task Force to Combat Organized Crime (Ficco-SP) In partnership with the Special Action Group on the Repression of Organized Crime (Gaeco) of the São Paulo Public Prosecution Service.
This content was originally published in MP denounces 6 more police officers by payment of bribes to Funkeiros in SP on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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