The Federal Police (PF) fulfills six search and seizure warrants, this Thursday (10), in an operation that investigates financial crimes on the border between Brazil and Uruguay.
The operation took place in the municipality of Chuí (RS). Measures to constriction of assets and values and the blocking of bank accounts of two companies are also carried out, which amounts to R$ 7 million.
According to the PF, the organization installed in Chuí would be responsible for money laundering and remittances to Uruguay from several Brazilian states, with the physical transposition of cash, in connection with exchange offices in the neighboring country.
PF investigations showed that commercial establishments in Chuí were used to launder money and send valuables to Uruguay, through criminal groups in several states.
According to the PF, there are indications of money laundering and crimes such as smuggling and embezzlement, from the receipt of money from the Chuí commerce, such as gas stations and supermarkets.
The money was sent to several states in the country, by individuals and legal entities, most of them without identification of origin and activity with the commercial establishments involved that justified the remittance of the money.
Those involved may be liable for the crimes of evasion of currency, money laundering and criminal association.
According to PF investigations, the operation, called Fenicio, takes place after an exchange of information authorized by the Justice with the Federal Police of Paraíba.
Source: CNN Brasil
