Overview

• FICCO-SP led Operação Vila do Conde to execute 22 preventive-arrest warrants and 40 searches across São Paulo, Pará, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais and Goiás under orders from the 4ª Vara Federal de Belém.
• Alexandre Constantino Furtado, president of Império de Casa Verde and vice-president of Liga-SP, was detained in São Paulo, with investigators reporting he is linked to the PCC.
• At Furtado’s residence, police seized stacks of cash, luxury watches and gold chains, and a court ordered the freezing and sequestration of assets up to R$ 291.5 million.
• The inquiry traces back to the February 2021 seizure of 458 kg of cocaine hidden in quartz at the Port of Vila do Conde in Barcarena, Pará, with the shipment bound for Rotterdam.
• Authorities say the group organized export logistics to Europe and laundered proceeds through front companies and investments such as restaurants, with forensic and financial analyses continuing.