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Brazil Intensifies PCC Crackdown as Pantanal Plane Crash Triggers Safety Investigation

New moves target PCC-linked finances alongside scrutiny of a fatal Pantanal landing's compliance.

Overview

  • A PF–PM operation executed 22 preventive-arrest warrants and 40 searches across five states, blocked R$290 million, and targeted Liga-SP vice-president and Império de Casa Verde president Alexandre Constantino Furtado on suspicion of PCC ties.
  • In the killing of ex–police chief Ruy Ferraz Fontes, the DHPP secured a temporary arrest for an eighth suspect, reported at least 63 shots fired at the scene, and said four suspects are jailed as four others remain wanted.
  • A São Paulo court sent three military policemen to a jury trial over the execution of PCC delator Vinicius Gritzbach at Guarulhos Airport and maintained their preventive detention.
  • Pernambuco's Operação Venatores arrested a PM soldier and 15 others accused of an interstate ring tied to homicides, drug trafficking, corruption and money laundering, with 20 arrest warrants issued and four fugitives.
  • Cenipa and state police are investigating the Pantanal crash that killed architect Kongjian Yu, two Brazilian documentarians and the pilot during landing at Fazenda Barra Mansa; ANAC records show the 1958 Cessna 175 (PT-BAN) was cleared for daytime private flights only and had a prior 2019 seizure before being regularized this year.