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Brazil Stages New Raids in Nationwide Fraud and Money-Laundering Crackdown

The actions expand a weeklong campaign that on Tuesday froze roughly R$685 million in a crypto-laundering case tied to earlier Kryptos investigations.

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Overview

  • In São Paulo, Operation Mata-Nota led to the preventive arrests of two Denarc officers and a lawyer and the freeze of R$1 million over alleged bribes to halt a probe into a PCC trafficker known as Costurado.
  • In Rio Grande do Norte, Operation Treme Tudo executed 15 arrest warrants and 26 searches across four states, with nine arrests confirmed and a lawyer caught carrying messages for jailed leaders in a group linked to 11 homicides.
  • In Ceará, police targeted a cyber scheme that used stolen credentials to reserve and resell rental cars, citing 68 vehicles taken, 17 search warrants, one preventive arrest, and asset blocks of R$3 million per suspect.
  • In Goiás-led actions focusing on the ABC Paulista region, investigators served more than 25 orders including 10 temporary arrests, froze over R$3 million, and said suspects funneled payments into bitcoin and moved R$56.9 million in six months.
  • In Minas Gerais, Veredicto Sombrio detained nine suspects and froze about R$40 million plus roughly US$180,000 in crypto over alleged misuse of magistrates’ credentials to access CNJ systems and launder proceeds.