The Federal Police launched this Wednesday (3) Operation “Crime Route 5: Phoenix”, which aims to dismantle a criminal group specialized in drug and arms trafficking across the border of Mato Grosso do Sul with Paraguay via roads to other states.
The investigation revealed that the group was responsible for transporting at least 15 tons of marijuana in less than a year.
A CNN found that scrap metal companies were used by the group. According to investigators, the criminals hid the drugs among the scrap metal load and then shipped them throughout the country.
Today, 12 judicial warrants are being served, two of which are temporary arrest warrants and nine are search and seizure warrants, in Ponta Porã (MS) – which borders Paraguay –, Artur Nogueira (SP) and Belo Horizonte (MG).
The prisoners, according to the PF, are the masterminds of a criminal scheme that hired freight through a third-party service to traffic drugs from Ponta Porã to other states in Brazil and are linked to the seizure of 12 tons of marijuana, in May of last year, on a highway in São Paulo, being the record seizure in the state.
Source: CNN Brasil
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