Overview

• Flávio da Silva Santos, known as Pepé or Flávio da Mocidade and president of Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel, was taken into custody in an MPRJ operation on Friday.
• Prosecutors denounced Flávio and contraventor Rogério de Andrade for forming an organized crime group focused on illegal gambling in Rio.
• A court determined that Rogério remain in the federal penitentiary system and that Flávio be placed under a federal maximum-security regime.
• Judicial orders included two preventive arrest warrants and eight search-and-seizure warrants tied to the two accused, with additional searches targeting ally Vinicius Drumond at sites such as the Imperatriz Leopoldinense headquarters and a haras in Cachoeiras de Macacu.
• The complaint alleges the group has led the main illegal gambling network since 2014, engaged in violent rivalries, and maintained a systematic bribery scheme within Civil and Military Police units.