The Federal Police (PF) began another action to combat illegal mining in the Yanomami Indigenous Land, in Roraima.
This Wednesday (17), agents seized weapons, radio communicators, ammunition, bulletproof vests and destroyed a camp of illegal miners who returned to the territory.
The operation has the support of the Armed Forces and, according to the PF, the agents will carry out a new round of attacks on illegal mining operations that operate within the Yanomami Indigenous Land, destroying illegal camps or other aid points they find.
Last December, the PF launched an operation to dismantle a financing and exploitation scheme for illegal mining in the region. Four people were arrested and the Federal Court also ordered the blocking of R$240 million from those being investigated.
For the PF, this is the profit that the group would have made from illegal extraction in indigenous territory.
The investigations identified financial transactions related to the sale of cassiterite illegally extracted from the region to one of the world's largest producers of tin (metal). Investigations indicate that in just a period of five months, in 2021, more than R$166 million of cassiterite would have been purchased.
A CNN learned from members of the Roraima PF that new actions will be taken in the same direction to combat illegal mining.
Source: CNN Brasil
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