The incredible story of the Comando Vermelho drug trafficker hidden behind the photo of Carlos Tevez

The vast files compiled by Brazil’s judicial system on the Commando Vermelho drug organization include: Unusually, Photo of Carlos Tevez in a Boca shirt and captain’s ribbon. What are you doing there?

The image appears below the number of the phone line that Brazil’s judicial system ordered to intervene and is owned by the user who claims to be the user. “Village de Chapadao” (Town of Chapadao).

“The contact photo shown below still does not positively identify the user.”said investigators, confirming that he was a former Argentine soccer player whose name was not written. it doesn’t matter anything About what was investigated there.

That’s one of the drug traffickers, using his image to hide one’s identity I’m in the band’s WhatsApp group.

However, after crossing hundreds of different lines used by drug traffickers of the Red Army Command, experts in the technical field managed to identify the line ending with the number 8346 in the name of Ana Laura Rodríguez de Moales, a neighbor of Itapetininga in the state of São Paulo.

However, experts determined that the device’s IMEI (a unique code consisting of 15 digits, like a unique identification card for each mobile phone around the world) had been fraudulently altered. changed In October 2023, it will take the name of Paula Gabriela Carneiro de Moura, partner of Thiago Assis da Silveira Lima.

Even when he was incarcerated, she did not stop visiting him in prison. He has a nickname by which he is known in the favelas and easily identified within the vast drug distribution organization controlled by the Red Army headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. “Toothface”

That information is divided into different bodies of files – a monumental survey of 18 digital files, 3,214 pages; he agreed to it clarion-, but the conclusion for each supported data There is no doubt: teeth Tooth surface He is the man behind the photo of Tevez, who played for Corinthians de São Paulo in Brazil and is currently the technical director of Talleres de Córdoba.

Tevez is an athlete International fame: He is the third Argentine player to win the most titles (29) in history, after Lionel Messi and Angel Di Maria.

row of Tooth surface Linked to 3 WhatsApp groups to manage Grandao (Washington Cesar Braga da Silva), general manager Red Command members answering the boss doca da peña Also known as Pedro Guedes Pedro Barra.

Group managed by Grandao They were called “Mirador”, “PH Claire”, and “Edgar’s Unit” (the chief’s first name). Doka).

In the band’s WhatsApp group, Tooth surface He has been identified as one of the people responsible for drug sales at the complex. Peña Rio de Janeiro’s network of 13 favelas are interconnected by a maze of kilometers-long corridors. Only its inhabitants know how to unravel it.

between the areas of Peña (boulderPortuguese) and complex neighbors german There is a hill called the Sierra de la Misericordia, about 300 meters high, where two weeks ago drug traffickers from the Red Army command were waiting for the police for an early morning battle. 121 people died, including 4 police officers.

When drug traffickers tried to cross the mountains to the American side, german When they got there, an ambush was waiting for them. The drug traffickers were left stranded at the scene, blocked by members of the Rio Military Police’s elite BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion). crossfire.

BOPE’s actions were depicted in the movie elite troops” won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.

Soldiers wear them sewn into their military uniforms. Terrifying insignia: Two pistols and a sword crossed the human skull.

It was the bloodiest anti-drug police operation in the history of the city of samba and carnival.

but, Tooth surface – Like all his bosses – he could have gotten away with it.

His name is not among the 115 bodies identified so far (only two civilian bodies have yet to be identified), nor is he on the current list of detainees.

he Chapadao village (the signature used by drug traffickers next to Tevez’s photo) is one of Rio de Janeiro’s larger favelas, but like the favelas that make up the complex, it is not located to the north of the city. Peña and germanbut on the west side, in the area adjacent to Jacarepagua.

This is the same area where the current fugitive CV leader is located. doca da peña (Edgar Alves Andrade) is ordered to kill a rival who competes with him for drug sales, but the hitmen make a mistake and 3 doctors were killed They were attending a meeting in the elegant – and next door – room. Tijuca Bar.

The structure, uncovered by investigators from the Special Action Group Against Organized Crime (GAECO), includes: Doka He is the top boss of an entire large criminal organization called Red Command (there are others in prison), and he has two general managers. for garden (Carlos Costa Neves) Grandao (Washington Cesar Braga da Silva). Next, they Different fields of responsibility.

from the line Grandao low dente face. He also integrates a fourth group. whatsapp where Grandao sort out Social and recreational activities For favelas.

So he ordered his soldiers to go without weapons so as not to threaten the neighbors. That group is called “family” There are two emojis red pennant (Vermelhos).

The line with Carlos Tevez’s face received 1,757 messages and 3,321 calls across the four WhatsApp groups it belonged to. Tooth surface.

According to intelligence documents on which the judicial investigation was based, Grandao (Also known as a “trustee”) Peña) established shifts of armed guards at drug dens within the complex and administered monthly payments to members of teams organized in a hierarchical structure according to performance.

Red Command is structured to charge more because those who stand out in sales can be promoted.

The distribution of weapons is not small. According to homemade notes written in notebooks seized during the raid, the Red Army command had invested at least 5 million reais in weapons this year. In other words 1 million dollars.

According to official documents, the amount allocated to “salary” only for lower-level sales personnel is equivalent to 500,000 reais per month. $100,000.

Two levels above your junior sales rep is your level. Tooth surface.

Thiago de Assis is 34 years old and has a police history since he was a minor.

In 2012, at the age of 21, he was arrested by the military police following complaints from neighbors. “Terrorizing the Chapadao community”. Everyone knew him. He was driving a black Fiat Sienna in the Anchieta neighborhood in the northern part of the community.

When he was arrested, his Sienna had a fake license plate. It was in the glove box capsules with cocaine For retail sale and bullet.

Ten years later, in August 2022, police investigated the kidnapping of two young men in the northern district of Rio de Janeiro.

Caio Wellington de Souza Lino, 22, and Marcos Paulo Alves de Lemos, 20, were working at a take-out restaurant. They kidnapped them because Caio said so. Police informant.

Among those investigated in this case are: Tooth surface. There is also a drug trafficker from Chapadao, also known as Wallace Moura dos Santos. WL.

Wallace also now appears on the Red Command WhatsApp group he manages. Grandaonext to Tooth surface.

they will help Grandao Among the tasks described in the Brazilian police intelligence report on this group. Also about them, Direct relationship with the police.

According to page 56 of the indictment, it appears that a military police major made direct contact with him on April 26 last year. Grandao to ask you to help him Recover your stolen car.

Grandao He moved the drug troopers, and the car returned to the owner in the same condition, 3 days later.