According to investigations, the crimes took place inside the 36th DP (Santa Cruz) in 2017reproduction
Published 04/29/2024 16:26
Rio – The Public Ministry of the State of Rio de Janeiro (MPRJ) denounced five civil police officers, including a delegate, for the crimes of concussion and insertion of false data in the Civil Police information system. According to investigations, the agents were part of a scheme to receive undue advantages to avoid arresting criminals in the act.
According to investigations carried out by the Civil Police General Inspectorate, the crimes occurred in 2017, within the 36th DP (Santa Cruz), in the West Zone of Rio, with the participation and connivance of the chief delegate at the time of the events, Rodrigo Sebastian Santoro Nunes.
The investigation found that the criminal group had the participation of police officers and people outside the corporation, known as “X-9”, responsible for gathering information about possible targets. Once the victims were identified, the accused agents simulated a police action and, based on the identification of irregularities, demanded the receipt of undue advantages in order to stop arresting them in the act.
In the criminal action, MPRJ prosecutors described a case in which police officers demanded the payment of R$10,000 to avoid registering an incident of arrest. At the time, the agents allowed the victim, a trader, to hand over the amount in two installments of R$5,000, and he was released so he could withdraw the first installment. One of the police officers was responsible for collecting the remaining amount, which was paid in two more installments. The amounts were divided between the police officers reported.
To cover up the extortion at the time, one of the police officers recorded the incident, which had in his “order” the suspension of the procedure due to the atypical nature of the conduct, under the justification that receipts for the products had been presented.
Remember the operation
At the time, police officers Carlos Tadeu Gomes Freitas Filho, Xavier Fernandes Coelho, Rafael Ferreira dos Santos and Delmo Fernandes Baptista Nunes and informants Fábio Rodrigo da Silva and Raphael Nonato dos Santos Lopes, known as Longo, were arrested. 19 search and seizure warrants were also executed, two of which were carried out in police units.
The group was denounced for having constituted, integrated and promoted a criminal organization with the aim of obtaining economic advantages through the practice of countless crimes of concussion, extortion through kidnapping, usurpation of public functions and corruption.
How the scheme worked
For the Public Ministry, the group was united around a common objective: to identify people who were outside the law, their economic potential and carry out police “operations” against them, always with the intention of catching them in the act commenting on some type of crime. After that, they demanded a large amount of money so that the suspects would not be arrested or the goods would be seized.
According to the agency, the gang even made threats and even physically attacked the victims. The gang also diverted the seized materials to be resold.
Rodrigo Santoro and retired civil police officer Delmo Fernandes were accused of being “high-ranking” and managing, monitoring and receiving the profits obtained by the criminal and financial scheme produced by the other members of the organization. Like Santoro, Delmo was sentenced in 2022 to 53 years in prison.
The scheme to collect illicit benefits began in the 34th DP, in Bangu, but with the transfers of the police officers involved, it began to be carried out in the 36th DP (Santa Cruz) and, later, in the Police Station for the Protection of Children and Adolescents (DPCA) in Niterói.
