Pablo Escobar pilot linked to cryptocurrency fraud in Portugal
The Federal Police of Brazil, associated a former pilot of the already founded a bar of funds of the Colombian drug Pablo Escobar to a criminal organization accused of operating financially, Portugal with funding from countries as funding.
“According to an investigation, a criminal organization for its illicit activity abroad, an activity of raising financial resources from third parties in the United States, Portugal and other countries”reads in the statement from the Federal Police.
According to a statement by the Federal Police, “one of the pilots responsible for transporting drugs” for the cartel in the 1980s and 1990s by Escobar facilitated the “extension of the group’s illicit activities” abroad.
The joint operation with the participation of the Public Ministry decided that the group’s “activities” in the United States were “structured” by the pilot, who traveled to the US country “with a false passport”.
The authorities did not identify the pilot, but according to local media it is the Brazilian Ricardo Rodrigues Gomes, who in 2006, after 17 years of evading justice, wasi was arrested in São Paulo and served eight years in Rio de Janeiro for international drug trafficking.
Nonetheless“Pilot”, as Rodrigues Gomes is also known, is considered a fugitive by the United States, where he was convicted of transporting a ton of cocaine to Medellín’s 1989 car on a plane belonging to the now-defunct airline that flew between Rio de Janeiro and Miami.
The Federal Police indicated that the pilot used false documents, such as invoices without origin, to “justify the circulation of bank deposits” in the accounts of a public company in the United States, which, in turn, the cryptocurrency strong “to the leader of the criminal organization”.
Furthermore, according to the police, the pilot “was responsible for providing documentation for the organization of leaders in the United States” and for “fulfilling his wishes”, such as buying a luxury plane to transport 19 people on behalf of his own daughter.
In Wednesday’s operation, which is the fourth phase of Operation Kryptos, 25 Federal Police agents served five preventive arrest warrants and four search warrants in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Cabo Frio and placed the names of other suspects in the ” Red List” by Interpol.
The pilot and other members of the organization are allegedly in the United States.