Overview

• Gabriel Spalone was detained inside an aircraft in Buenos Aires hours after being held and released in Panama due to the absence of an international arrest order at the time.
• Authorities now process international transfer steps that may route him through Paraguay before Brazil, while his defense prepares to challenge extradition.
• Investigators say 607 Pix transfers totaling R$146.5 million were executed on February 26 in under five hours from ten accounts linked to a partner arrangement known as Pix indireto.
• The targeted bank clawed back more than R$100 million, leaving roughly R$39 million in losses shared by the institution and corporate customers.
• Two suspects, Guilherme Sateles Coelho and Jesse Mariano da Silva, were arrested in São Paulo and Campinas and are alleged to have benefited by nearly R$75 million, as Spalone’s defense denies wrongdoing and calls prior foreign detention illegal.