Overview

• In Minas Gerais, Operation Custos Fidelis executed 48 arrest warrants and 84 searches while judicially blocking about R$18 billion tied to a Comando Vermelho‑aligned wholesale trafficking network based in Teófilo Otoni.
• A São Paulo desdobramento of Carbono Oculto, dubbed Operation Spare, executed 25 search warrants and alleges PCC laundering through motels, fuel stations and franchise stores with transfers routed via a payments fintech.
• Authorities report the scheme’s businesses moved nearly R$6 billion in four years, including 267 fuel posts and at least 60 motels, with Carbono Oculto and Spare together blocking R$7.6 billion; BK Bank denies links and the named businessman Flávio Silvério Siqueira is cited as a key beneficiary by investigators.
• Finance Minister Fernando Haddad announced a specialized Receita Federal unit in Brasília to institutionalize long‑term financial investigations against organized crime and complex fraud.
• Parallel actions underscore the nationwide push, including the seizure of about 105,000 cocaine papelotes in São Paulo, a probe into prison‑bound trafficking in Acre with 100 kg of drugs found around the FOC complex, and a Viçosa operation that made six arrests and left an alleged local leader dead as circumstances face review.