According to the Penitentiary Administration Secretariat (SAP), he is now held at Penitentiary II of Presidente Venceslau, in the interior of the State
Marcos Roberto de Almeida, known as Tuta, identified as one of the main leaders of , was transferred to São Paulo after spending five months in the Federal Prison of . According to the Penitentiary Administration Secretariat (SAP), he is now held at Penitentiary II of Presidente Venceslau, in the interior of the state.
The transfer decision had already been published by the São Paulo Court of Justice (TJ-SP) on July 31. The São Paulo Public Prosecutor’s Office defended that the detainee be sent to a prison under state management, as he does not have a definitive conviction and is not responsible for crimes under federal jurisdiction.
Tuta was arrested on May 16, in the city of Santa Cruz de La Sierra, Bolivia, where he was trying to renew a Bolivian identity using a false Brazilian document. Two days later, he was expelled from the country and handed over to the Brazilian authorities, who sent him to the maximum security penitentiary in Brasília — the same one where Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, known as Marcola, another leader of the faction, is being held.
Appointed as the PCC’s “number 1” outside of jail, Tuta lost space in the hierarchy, but still exerts influence at the top of the criminal organization. He has convictions for money laundering and criminal association, and is accused of having handled around R$1.2 billion from the group’s illicit activities abroad.
Marcos de Almeida was one of the targets of Operation Sharks, which investigated the PCC’s money laundering scheme. In 2020 and 2023, arrest warrants for him were issued but not carried out. The leader also served as commercial attaché at the Mozambique consulate in Belo Horizonte (MG) — a country that, according to investigations, began to be used as an alternative route for international drug trafficking. In 2021, the Federal Police seized five tons of cocaine at the Port of Rio de Janeiro, which would stop in Mozambique before heading to Spain.
*With information from Estadão Conteúdo
