Overview

• Roughly 1,400 agents executed about 350 search-and-seizure orders across several states, including actions on São Paulo’s Faria Lima financial corridor.
• Investigators estimate the scheme moved R$52 billion (about US$9.6 billion) from 2020 to 2024 through more than 1,000 service stations while controlling four refineries and over 1,000 fuel trucks.
• Prosecutors describe tactics that included gasoline and diesel adulteration using diverted methanol from the port of Paranaguá and under-delivery at pumps.
• Initial results reported include five arrests and the confiscation of approximately 1,500 vehicles, 192 properties, two vessels, and more than R$300,000 in cash.
• Parallel Federal Police probes—Quasar and Tank—target investment-fund channels tied to the laundering, with Tank reporting asset freezes exceeding US$180 million and authorities citing about 40 funds under scrutiny.