Three inmates allegedly linked to the Primeiro Comando da Capital, Brazil’s largest criminal faction, confessed to their involvement in the stabbing murder of the two suspects in the attacks against Moro.
Two suspected of plotting attacks against senator and former judge Sérgio Moro and other Brazilian officials were stabbed to death Monday inside a prison in São Paulo state, authorities said.
Three inmates, allegedly linked to the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), the largest criminal faction in Brazil, confessed their participation in the double murder and have already been isolated, according to the São Paulo Penitentiary Administration Secretariat.
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The authorities are investigate one inmate room allegedly involved in the crime, which occurred in one of the wings of a prison in Presidente Venceslau, in the interior of São Paulo, the state where the PCC was born and the epicenter of its criminal activities.
The police opened an investigation to clarify the circumstances of the two deaths.
According to the local press, the two dead are Janeferson Aparecido, known as Nefo, and Reginaldo Oliveira, known as Rê.
Both went accused of being members of a PCC cell in charge of planning attacks against Brazilian authorities.
In March 2023, a Federal Police operation resulted in the arrest of several members of the group, which had been planning the simultaneous murder of several members of the authorities for a year.
Sérgio Moro, world famous for condemning the current Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and who later became Minister of Justice in the Government of Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), was a priority objective.
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The PCC closely followed the routine of Moro and his family.
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According to the investigation, the PCC planned to kidnap Moro on October 30, 2022, the day of the second round of the presidential elections in which leader Lula da Silva emerged victorious against Bolsonaro.
Moro developed his career as a magistrate in the city of Curitiba and led the Lava Jato anti-corruption operation.
The PCC was born in the 1990s in the prisons of São Paulo and today it is the most powerful criminal gang dedicated to drug trafficking in South America, with tentacles in several countries in the region.
Source: Observadora
