The Justice of Rio sentenced Civil Police chief Rodrigo Santoro to 16 years and four months in prison and retired civil police officer Delmo Fernandes to 53 years and 10 months in prison, both in a closed regime, for leading an organization to practice crime, extortion through kidnapping, usurpation of public office and corruption. The decision rests with the judge of the 2nd. Criminal Court of the Santa Cruz Regional Forum, Juarez Costa de Andrade. In the decision, the judge also sentenced the Civil Police chief Thiago Luis Martins da Silva to 15 years of imprisonment, in a closed regime, for being part of the gang. A civil police officer, a military police officer, a military firefighter and an informant, who worked under the command of Rodrigo and Delmo, were also convicted, sentences ranging from 3 to 30 years in prison. The magistrate also determined the loss of public office of the two delegates and the convicted civil and military police. For being retired and inactive, according to the jurisprudence of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), Delmo Fernandes could not have withdrawn his earnings. “In the decision, Judge Juarez de Andrade wrote that “the analysis of the present criminal action demonstrates a robust outline of the incidence of the offense provided for in Article 2 of Law No. 12,850/2013. As clarified in the complaint, it was an organized structure, with a stable and persistent hierarchy and command. A major symptom of this is that the police officers who made up the organization’s hard core accompanied Chief Rodrigo Santoro and Chief Delmo Fernandes”. In a second case, involving the same crimes, also headed by Rodrigo and Delmo, judge Juarez Costa de Andrade sentenced civil police officer Carlos Tadeu Gomes Freitas Filho to 119 years in prison. Two other police officers, Xavier Fernandes Coelho and Rafael Ferreira dos Santos, were also sentenced to 80 years and 59 years in prison, respectively. In this process, five other civil police officers and six other defendants were also convicted. All eight civil police officers also had the loss of public office decreed. Action The two lawsuits stem from Operation Fourth Element, a joint operation by the Public Ministry and the Internal Affairs of the Civil Police launched in September 2017 to combat the criminal organization created using the structure of the Civil Police of the State of Rio de Janeiro, according to the complaint of the Public ministry. The crimes were committed between 2016 and 2017, initially at the headquarters of the 34th Police Station [Bangu]🇧🇷 Later, at the headquarters of the 36th Police Station[Santa Cruz]and, finally, at the headquarters of the Police Station for the Protection of Children and Adolescents (DPCA) in Niterói. Made up of civil police officers, police informants and also military police officers, the criminal organization created, according to the complaint, an orderly structure with division of tasks among the members with the objective of obtaining, directly or indirectly, economic advantage. One of the gang’s actions was aimed at obtaining information about people involved in illicit activities in order to demand money so that they would not be arrested. Police officers also allowed informants to use police badges and firearms and even drive the institution’s vehicles to commit crimes.
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