Paulinho paid the driver and soon after took over driving the vehiclereproduction
Published 04/20/2024 08:45
Rio – Vasco player Paulo Lucas Santos de Paula, known as Paulinho, was caught by Operation Prohibition drones last weekend, trying to deceive agents to escape a blitz mounted in Barra da Tijuca, in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro. Rio, for driving without a license. The images were released this Friday (19).
Paulinho was fined twice for trying to use the service of a ‘professional driver’ who usually passes inspections for irregular drivers. This practice has been frequent in Dry Law actions. The hired driver was already being monitored.
In the images obtained by the drone, the player appears to be approached by agents during the inspection. At the scene, he was informed that another qualified driver should remove the vehicle. At this moment, driver Thiago Almeida Bianchi De Mattos approaches and offers his services.
According to the agents, Thiago is a type of professional driver, known as a ‘fairy’, who are people who stay around traffic stops and charge to take the cars of people unable to drive.
Still from the footage, it is possible to see the driver taking over the steering wheel of the player’s car. However, the two stop less than 500 meters from the operation site and disembark, at which point Paulinho pays the driver and takes the wheel again.
However, further ahead he was stopped by Prohibition agents, who were monitoring the entire action. Then, the two were taken to the 16th DP (Barra da Tijuca). The player was fined twice, and the driver was arrested for ‘giving a vehicle to those who cannot drive’.
