Brazil Expands Crime Crackdown With PF Probes and Financial Strikes After Rio Megaoperation

Overview

• STF minister Alexandre de Moraes said he will direct the Federal Police to investigate laundering schemes in Rio and possible faction penetration of state institutions, and he requested operation images for review.
• Rio authorities announced new, court‑authorized actions aimed at dismantling the financial structure of gangs, including companies suspected of laundering proceeds.
• The Senate’s organized‑crime CPI was installed with Senator Fabiano Contarato as chair, as opposition senators plan hearings to contrast security outcomes among states.
• Multi‑state policing continued: Bahia recorded deadly confrontations and seized rifles in Simões Filho and Porto Seguro, while investigators in Rio’s North Fluminense arrested suspects in a homicide allegedly ordered from prison by a TCP figure.
• Frontline violence persists, with police probing the ambush killing of a military officer on the BR‑101 in Rio Bonito, and Congress debates a bill to label certain faction acts as narcoterrorism that still awaits key committee votes.