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Bahia Police Arrest PM Captain in Multi-State Crackdown on Crime Faction, Seek R$100 Million Freeze

The latest phase shifts focus to the group’s leadership by pursuing court-authorized asset blocks to cut off financing.

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Overview

  • Police launched Megaoperação Zimmer across six states with roughly 400 agents executing more than 90 warrants against the faction’s command, logistics and finance arms.
  • Captain Mauro das Neves Grunfeld of the Bahia Military Police was arrested in Salvador as an alleged leader targeted by the interstate action.
  • Investigators asked the judiciary to block R$100 million and seize property suspected of being funded by drug revenues.
  • The offensive follows Operação Recôncavo in Maragogipe, where over 200 agents carried out 30-plus warrants, arrested three suspects and reported three deaths after confrontations.
  • Authorities seized rifles, a submachine gun, a grenade, large quantities of drugs and items the police link to brutal killings, with forensic work and further diligences continuing.