The Public Ministry of Rio Grande do Sul carries out, this Friday morning (12), an operation against the couple of influencers from Rio Grande do Sul, Nego Di and Gabriela Sousa, investigated for laundering around R$ 2 million with virtual raffles promoted on social networks.
The agents are also investigating alleged fraud in the draws, meaning that the prizes were not, in fact, delivered to the winners.
Nego Di’s wife was arrested during the operation, as agents found a weapon for exclusive use by the Armed Forces, unregistered, in the possession of the suspect.
The search and seizure warrants against the couple’s assets were served at the influencers’ home in Santa Catarina. The objective of the action is to collect more evidence related to the crimes under investigation.
The prosecution seized two luxury vehicles belonging to the couple in today’s action, called Operation Rifa$.
According to Public Prosecutor Flávio Duarte, the agents collected documents, social media and cell phones from the influencers with the aim of discovering the size of the amounts they obtained from the raffles.
A CNN the defense of Nego Di and Gabriela said that they are getting to know the facts. “It is all very recent and we did not have access to the investigation. The information we have is that, in all the raffles he held, the prizes were transferred with due taxation. The draws were held by the federal lottery”, stated lawyer Hernani Fortini.
In a statement, the legal representatives of those investigated also said that “the innocence of those investigated will be proven at the appropriate time, in accordance with due legal process”.
Source: CNN Brasil
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