Overview

• By early afternoon, authorities reported at least 46 arrests in flagrante, two rescued victims and two adolescents apprehended, with totals still being updated.
• The operation is being executed across 15 states and the Federal District with 617 federal officers and 273 state civil police mobilized.
• Investigators are serving 182 search-and-seizure warrants and 11 preventive arrest warrants targeting suspects who store, share or produce child sexual abuse material online.
• Phones, computers and storage drives are being seized for lab review, supported by techniques such as keyword monitoring and decoding of coded exchanges identified in São Paulo probes.
• The action extends March and May editions of Proteção Integral within a yearlong effort in which roughly 1,630 arrest warrants were served on fugitives convicted of sexual crimes from January to September.