Overview

• Minas Gerais prosecutors and military police executed Operation Custos Fidelis with more than 120 warrants and court-ordered blocks near R$ 18 billion, reaching targets in Amazonas, Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo and seizing drugs, weapons and vehicles.
• The probe details a partnership between the Comando Vermelho and the Família Teófilo Otoni that sourced narcotics from Colombia and Venezuela and washed profits via fronts in sectors such as fish, gas and internet using smurfing, with a luxury property in Alagoas also frozen.
• In Bahia, Operação Anátema traced over R$ 4.3 billion in suspect flows through laranjas and façade companies, led to the arrest of vereador Ailton Leal and triggered widescale asset blocks with support from Sefaz and the ANP.
• In São Paulo, Garra/Dope units moved to detain suspects in the execution of ex–police chief Ruy Ferraz Fontes, with eight identified, four jailed and four at large, as authorities assert PCC involvement and await forensic reports.
• Parallel actions captured local trafficking managers and contraband, including 105,000 cocaine paperotes seized in São Paulo, a manager arrested in Angra dos Reis with a radio and cocaine, a Salvador suspect with a submachine gun bearing PM‑SP insignia and a Viçosa raid under review after a suspect was killed.