Federal Police Launch Ifrit Operation Against PCC-Linked Border Network

Overview

• The Federal Police opened Operação Ifrit on Wednesday to execute about 76 search warrants and roughly 25–26 arrest orders in seven states as part of a probe into a transnational group tied to the PCC and PGC.
• Investigators say the network operated from the Ponta Porã—Pedro Juan Caballero corridor to source drugs and weapons from Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay and to move product onward to Brazil and Europe.
• Federal agents have advanced allegations that Mato Grosso do Sul police delegate Hoffman D’Ávila diverted and adulterated seized cocaine, accumulated at least R$15 million and bought luxury assets, and he received a new preventive detention order.
• Judicial measures in Ifrit include the temporary removal of three police civil servants from duty and monitoring orders for other suspects, while parallel actions such as Fortaleza’s 12th phase of Operação Impacto and Mato Grosso’s Operação Muralha carried out arrests, asset freezes and large seizures.
• Authorities say the case exposed weak controls over police drug inventories and insider access, a structural flaw that investigators warn allowed diversion and helped the group consolidate territorial control through heavy weapons and violence.