The former commander of the PM in Jardim receives 30 000 reais a month from the Paraguayan cigarette mafia | Mato Grosso do Sul

Values ​​varied according to police patents. The soldiers, the cables and the sergeants received between $ 500 and $ 3,000 a week. Commanders received up to R $ 30,000 per month to be part of the criminal plan.

According to the investigation, the PM barracks in the city of Jardim (MS) was a kind of bureau of corrupt police officers. For two years, Lieutenant-Colonel Admilson Cristaldo was the commander of the PM battalion in the city.

From the room he occupied in the building, Cristaldo changed the scale of the patrols and removed the police from the roads where the cigarette trucks would pbad. In addition, he had contacts with commanders of other battalions, in other cities, who were also part of the plan, and who were also arrested.

Despite a salary of about R $ 17,000, Lt. Col. Admilson Cristaldo was rich. During the Rio Olympics, he spent a weekend in a 5-star hotel in Copacabana, and paid R $ 7,998.00 a day. He spent more than $ 25,000 at a design store in a shopping mall in São Paulo.

Admilson Cristaldo bought a spa for $ 28,000 and nearly $ 80,000 for a motorcycle that he had used to travel from Campo Grande to the United States in January. Payment has always been made in cash and cash. The lieutenant-colonel learned that he was being watched. But it was late.

According to the survey, the phone call is a dialogue between Admilson Cristaldo and another police officer. He is concerned that the system has been discovered.

Admilson: "I pbaded the information after three months, after everything was thick, after the guys had already stapled, f … everything … "

According to the Gaeco, between 2014 and 2016, two years before Cristaldo took command of the garden battalion, the Boqueirão region, under him, made 63 seizures of contraband. During the two years under the command of the army, the police in the region did so blatantly.

Lt. Col. Luciano Espíndola da Silva, who headed the Bonito (MS) battalion, and Major Oscar Leite Ribeiro, former sub-commander at Bela Vista (MS), were also arrested. Admilson Cristaldo would have indicated the two comparsas for the commandos of the regional police.

Gaeco's Attorney, Tiago Giulio Freire, said the police had testified that they were very uncomfortable with the posture of their colleagues. According to the prosecutor, the military felt pressured to join the system or request a transfer. Many people have considered the loss of society because of the degree of corruption that was involved in the military police in some places.

According to Gaeco's coordinator, Cristiane Mourão, when a sort of inspection took place, the people involved in the plan intervened directly so that this event was not recorded and the cargo was released.

In a phone call authorized by the courts, two traffickers, identified as Djalma and Afonso, complain that the police were asking for a lot of money.

Djalma: "(…) the guys were asking for a very good tip, 150 000 reais to pbad that and this truck … well the commander involved as well, understood."

Djalma: "But, he gave a crush, but what's wrong, in his Afonso?"

Afonso: "A few days later, he still improves there."

According to the SEP's Military Police General Co-ordinator, Edmilson Lopes, documents and other materials were seized during the operation. "Due to the investigation of these new facts, new arrests may occur and can also be verified that there is the involvement of other police officers," revealed the corregedor.

The investigation revealed that the corruption plan was very close to the highest authority of the state. Third Sergeant Ricardo Campos Figueiredo, who was working as a driver for the governor of Mato Grosso do Sul, Reinaldo Azambuja, was also arrested.

When the police arrived at his home with a search warrant, Ricardo locked himself in the bathroom and destroyed two cell phones. He ended up in jail for obstruction of justice. He was the subject of an investigation a year ago, during which time he continued to work in government. After the arrest, Ricardo was exonerated.

The clandestine cigarette routes leave Paraguay to enter Brazil through cities like Sete Quedas, Bela Vista, Ponta Porã and Porto Murtinho. According to Luciano Barros, president of the Institute for Economic and Social Border Development, this product has a logistics and a way of traveling. Luciano explains that the state must think strategically not only as vigilance, but also with an infrastructure to fight crime.

For Edgar Marcon, a public security specialist, the pbadage through which smuggling pbades is of great value to criminals. "When you talk about the road, it is necessary to specify that it is not the physical road but the correct roads along this road, because on all the highways there are inspections." The value of the road is precisely in the stroke that already exists in the course, "he explained.

In Brazil, illegal cigarettes already account for 48% of the market, and in Rio de Janeiro only, they processed 1 billion reais in 2017. According to the Superintendent of the Federal Police of Mato Grosso do Sul, Luciano Flores, the Cigarette profit is one of the main sources of income for the criminal factions that haunt various parts of the country today.

Still according to the PF, it is thanks to the profit that the factions can finance more weapons, more ammunition and more drugs.

One of the factors that encourages criminals is the difference between the sentences. While the maximum penalty for drug trafficking is 15 years imprisonment and arms trafficking of up to eight years, the smuggling penalty can only reach five years of detention. As in Brazil, sentences of up to four years are respected, it is rare that a smuggler remains imprisoned even if he is found guilty.