A Transunião bus companytarget of Operation Last Stop, functioned as a kind of financial operations center for members of the First Command of the Capital (PCC), second the prosecutor Lincoln Gakiya.
During a press conference this Thursday (25), Gakiya stated that the investigations identified the use of the transport company Transunião in money laundering operations involving different criminals linked to the faction.
“I might consider perhaps a kind of hub. Transunião was a kind of hub even used to launder money from other criminals in the group”, stated the prosecutor.
According to him, the company appears in financial transactions related to those investigated mentioned in other operations conducted by the Public Ministry and the Civil Police.
Among the names mentioned are financial operators linked to the faction and people close to members of the PCC leadership. According to Gakiya, the investigations indicate that Resources linked to the criminal organization circulated through the company’s business structure.
The investigations also identified transactions involving people related to the family of the faction’s leaders, like Marcola’s for example. The suspicion is that the acquisition and exploitation of buses were used as a mechanism to hide assets and move illicit resources.
“Normally this is the modus operandi. Criminals from the PCC leadership, through family members or third parties, receive or receive some funds from outside and these funds come from buses that they acquired”, stated the prosecutor.
According to the investigators, the analysis of the material seized in the operation could clarify the extent of the participation of members of the faction in the company’s business.
For the Public Ministry, the elements gathered so far indicate that Transunião did not just serve the interests of a single criminal group, but it functioned as a platform used by different members of the organization to launder money and hide assets.
