Gaeco agents (Special Action Group on Combating Organized Crime) of MPSP (Public Prosecutor of São Paulo), with the support of the Military Police and the Civil Police, triggered the morning of Monday (8) a Operation against trafficking leaders at the Moinho favela, in downtown São Paulo.
The action, called Operation Sharpe, aims to comply with ten pre -trial detention warrants and 14 search and seizure against group members, which is linked to. According to the calculation of CNNfive people have already been arrested.
Among prisoners are Alessandra Moja, sister ofwho headed trafficking at the scene and was arrested last year. A man identified as José Carlos, who would be the leader of the current trafficking of the Moinho, and another man identified as Jorge de Santana were also arrested.
This Monday’s operation is an offshoot of in order to dismantle organized crime actions in the region of Cracolândia. Leo do Mill was arrested at the time.
According to Gaeco investigation, even arrested, Leo continued to issue orders from inside the prison In order to intimidate CDHU (Housing and Urban Development Company) employees, preventing families from accepting compensation for their houses and leaving the place.
In April this year, the government of São Paulo started a since the Moinho favela is the only slum located in the center of São Paulo. CDHU plans to restructure the area, with the implementation of Parque do Moinho to prevent new occupations.
“The authorities have a new blow to the criminal group, which tried to reorganize themselves through drug trafficking and remained coercing residents and public agents who work in the reurbanization of the” Favela do Moinho “, whose area will be transformed into a public park, just as families will be relied on and properly indispensated by their houses,” says MPSP.
According to MPSP, Operation Salus et Dignitas had as its result the almost total elimination of open drug use scenes in the region of Cracolândiaas drug trafficking was, according to the survey by a year, only one of the aspects of crimes committed into a real environment “ecosystem for the commitment of illicit” of the CCP.
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