Action meets ten pre -trial detention warrants and 14 search and seizure; According to the investigation, one of the heads of organized crime already arrested continued to issue orders from inside the chain
On the morning of Monday (8), agents of the Special Action Group of Combating Organized Crime (Gaeco) of the São Paulo Public Prosecution Service (MPSP), the Military Police and the Civil Police were the purpose of complying with ten pre-trial arrest warrants and 14 search and seizure warrants in Operation Sharpe, which is deployment of Operation Salus et Dignitas, triggered on August 6, 2024 with the purpose of disarticulating organized crime actions in the region. from the center of São Paulo called “Cracolândia”. The operation, according to the MPSP, resulted in the almost total elimination of open drug use scenes in the region, as drug trafficking was, according to a survey by a year, only one of the strands of crimes committed into a true “ecosystem for the commitment of illicit”, whose central orders departed from the first command of the capital () inside the “slums of moinho” community.
3 leaders were arrested. According to the MPSP, it was found that the leader of the trafficking of the “Favela do Moinho”, Leonardo Moja, continued to issue orders from inside the prison through his sister Alessandra Moja, detained in the operation. The purpose would be to intimidate CDHU employees, preventing resident families from accepting compensation for their houses under the false pretext of resistance from the local community.
The place where the Moinho favela is located is scheduled to become a public park, and in May, the management of the governor and the government announced an agreement so that the nearly 900 families occupying the place irregularly were relocated.
