Rio Operation Delivers Major Blow to Comando Vermelho as Brazil Approves Transfer of Jailed Chiefs

Overview

• Federal authorities approved moving ten imprisoned faction leaders from Rio’s Bangu complex to federal prisons to curb their contact with operatives on the outside.
• Police reported 113 arrests, including 33 suspects from other states, the seizure of 91 rifles and 26 pistols, and tons of drugs after the Oct. 28 sweep in Rio’s North Zone.
• Investigations indicate Juan Breno Ramos, known as BMW, enforced leadership orders that included assaults, torture and killings, with multimedia showing women forced into ice containers and Aldenir Martins do Monte Junior dragged through the streets.
• Prosecutors named Carlos Costa Neves, known as Gadernal, in a formal complaint after he appeared in a video call during a torture episode cited by police.
• Edgar Alves de Andrade, known as Doca or Urso, escaped the operation’s cordon and remains a fugitive with dozens of arrest warrants, and a reward of R$ 100,000 has been offered for his capture.