According to the investigation, Layla will be charged with irregular exercise of her profession, being part of a criminal organization, ideological falsehood and association for trafficking.
Records from the Brazilian Bar Association indicate that, in recent years, delegate Layla Lima Ayub, arrested this Friday, 16th, on suspicion of connection with the First Command of the Capital, acted as a lawyer in criminal cases in Pará and filed administrative actions against the State of Espírito Santo while she was a military police officer.
Layla was arrested this Friday morning in São Paulo as part of Operation Serpens, launched by the General Inspectorate of the Civil Police of São Paulo and Gaeco, together with Gaeco do Pará. The investigation investigates the role of the newly appointed delegate in favor of the criminal faction, including personal and professional ties with members of the PCC.
According to the investigation, Layla will be charged with irregular exercise of her profession, being part of a criminal organization, ideological falsehood and association for trafficking. When arrested, she did not deny having ties to the faction and admitted that her boyfriend, Jardel Neto Pereira da Cruz, known as “Dedel”, is a member of the PCC. Estadão tries to contact the delegate’s defense. The space remains open.
According to OAB data, Layla maintained her main registration in Pará, linked to the Marabá subsection, where she regularly practiced law. She also opened a supplementary registration in Espírito Santo, a mechanism used when the professional begins to work regularly in another State. This supplementary registration, however, currently appears as canceled, while the main registration in Pará appears as regular.
Consultations with the systems of the Court of Justice of Pará show that Layla’s name appears in several processes being processed in both the first and second instances. Among them are criminal actions related to drug trafficking, association for production and trafficking, qualified homicide, threats, qualified theft and crimes covered by the National Weapons System, in addition to arrest reports in the act, police investigations and requests for habeas corpus involving preventive arrests.
In one of these cases, which is being processed at the Anapu Single Court, Layla acted as a defense lawyer in a criminal case for qualified homicide. According to court records, she represented the defendant at an evidentiary hearing held in December 2025, participated in the hearing of witnesses and presented a request to revoke preventive detention. The analysis of the application was postponed until the Public Prosecutor’s Office responded.
“This delegate, as a lawyer, began to act in favor of the leaders of the PCC faction in the State of Pará. In this context, she ended up being co-opted by a specific individual”, stated prosecutor Carlos Gaya. According to him, Layla “would have been co-opted during her contact with these PCC leaders inside the prisons there in Pará, a law practice that she had been practicing for a short time, around two years, and which deepened with her romantic relationship with this leadership”.
In another case, at the Itupiranga Single Court, the then lawyer represented two prisoners in an arrest warrant for drug trafficking. During a custody hearing held in June 2025, Layla asked for provisional release with precautionary measures, which was granted by the judge. The process remains in the investigation phase, with determination of new steps.
“The number of visits she carried out to prisoners, including those for whom she did not even have a power of attorney to act on their behalf, was multiple”, added the prosecutor.
At the Espírito Santo Court of Justice, Layla appears as the author of at least three procedures. In 2017, he filed an administrative action against the State to collect food allowance as a military police officer. The request was dismissed in 2021 and the case was definitively archived, without criminal repercussions.
In 2019, he filed a new administrative action against the state government, this time seeking compensation for an accident on duty suffered while working in the Military Police. The court denied the request in a 2022 decision, understanding that the calculation made by the public administration correctly followed state legislation.
In the same period, Layla was also the target of a Military Police Inquiry initiated by the PM’s Internal Affairs Department, in which she appeared as an indictment. The procedure was analyzed by the Military Public Ministry and definitively archived by the Military Court in 2021, without offering a complaint.
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