Overview

• Operation Vila do Conde executed 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; police seized cash, luxury watches and gold at his residence.
• Courts ordered the seizure and freezing of assets, rights and values tied to the targets up to R$ 291.5 million.
• The probe began after 458 kg of cocaine were found in 2021 hidden in quartz at the Port of Vila do Conde bound for Rotterdam, leading investigators to map the export logistics and alleged laundering via front firms and restaurants.
• New filings cite Sky ECC exchanges in which “Samba” and “Don Corleone” discuss sending 90 kg to Amsterdam by plane, as investigators flag atypical movements in the school’s accounts; Império de Casa Verde denies illicit activity.