Overview

• Roughly 1,400 agents executed about 350 search and seizure orders across multiple states as authorities moved to dismantle the network.
• Investigators say the scheme moved about $9.6 billion from 2020 to 2024 through more than 1,000 service stations tied to the fuel supply chain.
• Early results include five detainees and the seizure of 1,500 vehicles, 192 properties, two vessels and more than 300,000 reais in cash.
• Prosecutors cite control of four refineries and over 1,000 tanker trucks, with diverted methanol used to adulterate gasoline and diesel after entry via Paranaguá.
• Parallel actions Quasar and Tank target the financial layer, with Tank already freezing assets exceeding $180 million and one fintech alleged to have acted as a PCC “parallel bank” moving about $8.5 billion.