Outsider Tours Owner Fernando Sampaio Arrested in Balneário Camboriú on Pará Warrant

Overview

• Sampaio was detained on January 6 while leaving a luxury building in Balneário Camboriú, after a month of monitoring by Pará investigators.
• The preventive arrest was ordered by the Criminal Court of Tucuruí in Pará, and he remains in custody in Santa Catarina with inquiries also active in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
• Investigators say he marketed packages with tickets, flights and hotels for major events but failed to deliver, with reports of fake boarding passes and fans learning at stadium gates that entries would not arrive.
• He is tied to more than 600 cases nationwide, with cited losses including a R$ 1.2 million probe in São Paulo and a R$ 5.9 million civil claim filed by a Bahian agency.
• Outsider’s social media accounts are offline and its website says it is temporarily closed, while his lawyer says he will seek to revoke the preventive detention and argues he intends to reimburse clients.