Overview

• The transfer ran under a high-security operation coordinated by the National Secretariat for Penal Policies through the Federal Penal Police with support from a Federal Highway Police aircraft.
• Upon arrival in the state, he was taken to the maximum-security Penitentiary II of Presidente Venceslau, a facility that concentrates PCC leadership held under São Paulo jurisdiction.
• The São Paulo Court of Justice had published an authorization for his move to a state maximum-security unit on July 31.
• He was captured on May 16 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra by Bolivia’s FELCC while using false Brazilian documents, after an Interpol alert led authorities to notify Brazil’s Federal Police.
• He has a first-instance sentence of 12 years and six months for criminal organization and faces additional cases including money laundering, with Operation Sharks attributing to him overseas transfers of roughly R$1.2 billion and identifying his past role as a commercial attaché linked to Mozambique.