06/17/2024 – 20:42
The First Command of the Capital (PCC) executed in Penitentiary 2 President Venceslau Janeferson Aparecido Mariano Gomes, known as Nefo, the man who had coordinated the plan for an attack on Senator Sérgio Moro. A member of the so-called Sintonia Restricta, Nefo had been arrested on March 22, 2023 during Operation Sequaz, which dismantled the group that planned the crime.
In addition to Nefo, Reginaldo Oliveira de Souza, known as Rê, a member of the Final Tuning of the 14, the group responsible for issuing orders to the free factionists, was also killed. Rê had also been arrested in Operation Sequaz. He was a known bank robber, with “an extensive criminal record, many of them violent actions”. The feds intercepted a videoconference between Nefo and Rê during the planning of the attack on Moro in which details of the crime were decided. Rê and Nefo were murdered while sunbathing in the prison.
According to investigators in the case, there is no doubt that the crime was committed as determined by the PCC command. What is still not certain is the motivation for the crime. The main hypothesis would be a settling of accounts within the faction, due to the failure of the rescue plan for Marco Willians Herbas Camacho, Marcola, and the attacks against authorities planned by the PCC. Nefo, according to one of these investigators, was suspected of having “talked too much”. For this he paid with his life.
When Nefo was arrested, in 2023, the bandits he commanded had been ordered to monitor Moro for six months. They rented farms in the Curitiba region – in one of them a false wall was built in one of the rooms to hide weapons and money. Nefo also found a house near the senator’s family residence and a commercial space next to Moro’s political office, in Curitiba.
The criminals photographed the daily life of the couple and their children. School, gym, shopping and meetings: everything was monitored by the bandits. The plan was discovered by the Special Action and Combating Organized Crime Group (Gaeco), of the São Paulo Public Ministry, which passed the information to the Federal Police. This, after breaking the confidentiality of the cell phones seized from Nefo’s group, found images, with comments, captured on the internet on November 29, 2022 made by criminals who made up the PCC’s “Restricted” cell.
The images were of the official residences of the presidents of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), and of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), as well as a search on the Trovit website about properties in the “Ministers Peninsula”, Lago Sul, Brasília, demonstrating that there was a determination from the leadership for this sector to carry out these surveys of the aforementioned authorities of the Republic.
Furthermore, the feds discovered all the planning, preparation and execution of repeated acts aimed at the attack against Senator Moro, which Nefo was responsible for coordinating. On September 19, 2023, agents seized, in the backyard of the property located at Rua Coronel José Ribeiro de Macedo Junior, 219, Curitiba, a house used by the Nefo group, explosives and materials to activate the devices, including 26 rock breakers from the Pyroblast brand of varying sizes, 31 electric starters and an electronic drive case from the same brand.
According to investigators, the material could be used in a bomb attack against the senator. For this action, the faction mobilized a cell with three of its members and covered its costs – around R$44 thousand -, such as accommodation, cell phones, rent, insurance, property tax, furniture, transportation and even the purchase of household appliances. In addition to Moro, promoter Lincoln Gakiya, from Gaeco, was another target of the bandits.
The attacks against authorities and the prosecutor were what was called Plan B in the faction, because Plan A – the bandits’ main objective – was the rescue of Marcola, leader of the faction. For more than a year, intelligence from the Federal Penitentiary Department (Depen) and the PF had been following the movements and dialogues held by Marcola and other prisoners from the faction in the federal penitentiary in Brasília. The plan involved training mercenaries in Bolivia and recruiting members of the so-called Novo Cangaço to invade the prison and rescue Marcola. But the arrests that reached the Restricted Tune put everything to ruin.
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