Eight people remain at large after the three operations against money laundering by criminal groups in the fuel sector triggered on Thursday (28). According to the Federal Police (PF), of the 14 arrest warrants issued, only six were fulfilled, which eventually put, among the hypotheses to be investigated, to leak information about the Quasar, Tank and Hidden Carbon operations.
The warrants are related to Operation Tank, focused on the dismantling of “one of the largest money laundering networks already identified in Paraná”.
According to the Ministry of Justice, the criminal group had been operating since 2019 and would have moved more than R $ 23 billion through a network composed of hundreds of companies, including gas stations, distributors, holdings, collection companies and payment institutions authorized by the Central Bank.
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During a press conference, in which the three operations were detailed, PF’s director general, Andrei Rodrigues, said that only six of the 14 targets were found “it is not a normal statistic of PF operations.”
Contacted by Agência Brasil, the PF reported that the number of prisoners remained in six until the end of the morning of Friday (29).
Quaar and hidden carbon
Operation Quasar sought to dismantle a “criminal organization specializing in money laundering and fraudulent management of financial institutions”, which used investment funds to hide assets of illicit origin, with indications of connection with criminal factions, according to the PF.
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Operation hidden carbon was triggered to dismantle “a sophisticated fraud scheme, tax evasion and money laundering in the fuel sector, controlled by organized crime.”
