Overview

• Minas Gerais’ Custos Fidelis operation executed 48 arrest warrants and 84 searches across MG, AM, RJ and ES, blocked assets reported at about R$18 billion and seized drugs, weapons and eight vehicles, including a luxury property in Alagoas.
• Investigators describe the Família Teófilo Otoni, allied to the CV, as a structured logistics‑and‑finance hub that used façade firms in sectors like fishing and gas plus smurfed deposits to launder multimillion‑real drug proceeds.
• São Paulo police launched fresh raids with six search warrants and two arrest warrants in the execution of ex‑delegado Ruy Ferraz Fontes, which the state attributes to the PCC, with four suspects in custody and four still at large.
• Forensics tied Felipe Avelino da Silva and Flávio Henrique Ferreira de Souza to cars used in the ambush via DNA and identified Umberto Alberto Gomes’ fingerprints in a Mongaguá base house, while other suspects are linked to sourcing and moving a fuzil.
• Parallel actions included arrests in Maranhão over the execution of businessman Gezo Almeida, the seizure in Salvador of a submachine gun bearing the São Paulo Military Police insignia and the detention of alleged arms suppliers, as well as a Viçosa raid in which a woman identified as a local drug leader was killed in circumstances under investigation.