An operation by the Federal Police (PF) arrested this Monday (21) the leader of a criminal organization that was defrauding emergency aid. According to the PF, the man was the main target of the action and was arrested in the act, for forgery of document, in Santíssimo, a neighborhood in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro.
The criminal was considered by the police one of the biggest forgers of documents in the country and had already been captured on two other occasions, for embezzlement and forgery.
Investigations showed that the man led a criminal organization and the gang collected lists of people who did not vote in the last three elections, through publications on the websites of the Regional Electoral Courts (TREs).
With the names in hand, criminals captured other information on private database sites to register on the federal government website.
With the registration done, the group made the illegal request to obtain the benefit through the Caixa Tem app.
“The criminal organization carried out several frauds to give the appearance of being real to the registration, among them, the registration of telephone chips in the name of the beneficiaries and the production of false documents. It is estimated that more than BRL 1 million reais may have been improperly received by the organization,” the PF said in a statement.
Five other people, in addition to the leader arrested on Monday, are being investigated by the PF for crimes of embezzlement qualified by electronic fraud, falsification of public documents and criminal organization.
Added together, the crimes can lead to more than 20 years in prison for those investigated.
This Monday’s operation, called Decipit, involved about 60 federal police officers, who are executing eight search and seizure warrants issued by the 4th Federal Criminal Court of Rio de Janeiro, in the municipalities of Angra dos Reis/RJ, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Barueri/SP and Carapicuíba/SP.
Source: CNN Brasil
