Antonio Jaider Soares da Silva, president of the Rio Grande Academics, used a slipper shop and a lottery house to launder money. The findings were drawn from a joint investigation by the Prosecutor's Special Action Group against Organized Crime (Gaeco) and the Crime and Money Laundering Unit of the Civilian Police. Jaider, as it is called, is the main target of the operation Mala Fortuna, who on Thursday carried out search and seizure warrants at 11 locations – the block and the Rio Grande between them – on Thursday.
According to the complaint of the deputy. Dru Bazar of Duque de Caxias, a shoe store operated under the name Botequim de Chinelos, which had as partners the son of Antonio Jaider, Yuri Reis Soares and Paulo Henrique Melo Rufino, was used to merge "the amounts acquired illegally with the legal resources available to the company ". According to the prosecutors, Yuri and Paulo Henrique were "oranges" of the gang and provided the company's account for the illegal gambling money to be disguised. In 2014, Yuri left the company structure.
The MP mapped a series of transactions on bank accounts.