The Federal Police (PF), working together with the Federal Revenue Service, launched Operation Traders this Thursday (28), with the objective of dismantling a criminal group that committed crimes against the National Financial System (SFN), against the market capital and carried out a practice known as financial pyramid in several cities in Paraná.
The investigated presented themselves as “traders” to capture savings from victims and investors, in order to apply the resources in the securities market.
The investigation pointed out that returns above those practiced in the market were promised (profits of up to 6.4%), although the “proprietary desks” presented consistent losses, especially in “day trade” operations, that is, in addition to not investing in the stock exchange, values the entirety of the resources, which were applied, normally resulted in losses.
The operations were carried out through at least 22 companies not authorized by the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) to raise funds and make investments in the market.
The investigated ones issued and offered to the public securities consisting of collective investment agreements in the name of a shell company, without prior registration of the issuance with the CVM, without sufficient collateral or guarantee and without prior authorization from the body.
Over time, and as can be seen in the history of such schemes, those investigated were no longer able to honor the commitments they had assumed, since the amounts collected were not actually invested in stock exchange operations and, when they were, they did not result. in the promised profits.
From then on, the leader of the scheme, who resided in Umuarama (PR), began to hide the fictitious object of the companies, having presented to the clients, now victims, the allegation that she would migrate from “operations on the stock exchange” to the creation of a “digital bank” and that, from this new venture, it would be able to honor the value payment contracts, which are much higher than what the real market usually pays to investors.
Approximately 70 federal police officers and 15 Revenue servants were mobilized to comply with 17 court orders, in the cities of Umuarama, Guaíra, Douradina, Foz do Iguaçu and Curitiba, in Paraná, and in Taboão da Serra, in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo.
In addition to the search and seizure warrants, the Federal Court determined the kidnapping of cars, real estate and cryptocurrencies. The orders were issued by the 23rd Federal Court of Curitiba.
The investigation began in 2021, from the identification of the first branches of “stock exchange operations” companies in small towns on the Paraná border with Paraguay, such as Guaíra, Douradina and Umuarama.
Attention was drawn to the use, by the leaders of the scheme, of new luxury vehicles in the Fonteira region, incompatible with declared income.
During the investigations, it was also found that the criminal organization captured and moved amounts that exceed R$ 200 million and made thousands of victims in the states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Paraná and Santa Catarina, focusing on the western region of Paraná. and in the capital Curitiba.
The amounts applied by the victims ranged from R$ 1 thousand (minimum amount accepted by the group), with no maximum limit. Some people invested figures that exceeded R$ 1 million.
The amounts were deposited in the accounts of the investigated companies and then transferred, in part, to the personal accounts of the leaders of the scheme. The investigation is still ongoing and is carried out jointly by the Federal Police in Guaíra and the Research and Investigation Center of the Federal Revenue Service in Foz do Iguaçu.
The CVM also collaborated with the work and monitors the due diligence in progress. Those involved must answer for crimes against the SFN, against the capital market, against the popular economy, criminal organization and money laundering.
Source: CNN Brasil
