Nininho Vaz Maia
The alleged head of the network is Mauro Amaral, a businessman with several firms that operate in the automotive sector. Amaral is suspected of using car sales to whiten drug money.
The drug trafficking network that singer Nininho Vaz Maia allegedly integrates washing the crime money with several Companies in the Automobile.
It is recalled that the singer was constituted defendant in the scope of the “Skys4all” operation, an investigation conducted by the Public Prosecutor of Loures and the Judicial Police (PJ), which aims to dismantle an international drug trafficking network with connections to Latin America. Authorities believe that the Portuguese artist will have acquired cocaine from this organization to Distribution in Spain And that was involved in capital bleaching schemes, although the defense of the singer denies any involvement and ensures full collaboration with the court.
The alleged leader of the network is Mauro Amaral, businessman of Greater Lisbon with several companies in the automotive sector, advances the. According to the investigation, Amaral used the business of buying and selling vehicles to whiten the profits from trafficking of drugs, with the help of his sister, lawyer, also constituted defendant.
Both have already been heard by the Loures Criminal Instruction Judge and released with an identity and residence term. Amaral, who was not arrested in the operation because it was not located in time, presented voluntarily at your lawyer’s office to express availability to clarify the facts.
The organization’s modus operandi involved the Shipping of cocaine Dispatciled in Brazil, without companions, who were then collected by ranked handling employees at Lisbon airport and delivered to the network’s operational.
Although not one of the main targets of the investigation, Nininho Vaz Maia is suspected of having collaborated with the network between 2021 and 2022. The seizure of an encrypted mobile phone from the sky ECC network, identical to that used by other members of the group, reinforced the signs against the singer. In her residence, the PJ found money in cash, although it has not found evidence that directs it directly to the capital laundering. In total, the operation resulted in the seizure of 150 thousand euros.
Nininho Vaz Maia, 37, maintains the expected performance for the burning of Porto tapes next Saturday, but canceled all interviews. Already in the past, at the age of 25, he served a house arrest sentence after being involved in a feud on the Lisbon night. It was even at this time that it became known after sharing a video on the internet where it is singing with the visible electronic bracelet.
The investigation, supported by surveillance and telephone ears, is on suspicions of criminal association, drug trafficking and money laundering.
