PF fights criminal group specializing in financial crimes
A criminal organization specialized in the crimes of currency evasion, illegal exchange and money laundering was dismantled this Wednesday (1st) by the Federal Police (PF), during Operation Massari. The investigated worked on the border between Brazil and Uruguay, between Santana do Livramento and Rivera.
The criminal group also had branches in the state of São Paulo and the coast of Santa Catarina to carry out the flow of illicit money from these regions to the southern border of Brazil and later to Uruguay, China, Argentina and Chile.
According to the PF, at least R$ 13.5 million were transferred through bank accounts linked to those investigated, in the last three years. "However, it is estimated that the parallel financial movement is much higher, since most of the operations take place through cash".
Around 40 federal police officers have been carrying out ten search and seizure warrants since the beginning of the morning, in Santana do Livramento and one in the city of São Paulo, in addition to orders blocking bank accounts and making vehicles unavailable.
According to the PF, the name of the operation, Massari, is an expression used by those investigated when referring to transactions with cash.
Text translated using artificial intelligence.
