Researchers are arrested accused of extorting money from the Abbey group
Two researchers were arrested this Saturday (15) by Corregedoria Civil Police of Sao Paulo accused of extorting money from members of the gang of Colombian trafficker Juan Carlos Abadia, arrested in 2007 in the interior of São Paulo. The holder of the Crimes Division of the Functional Corregedoria, Caetano Paulo Filho, were sent this Friday (14) six warrants of search and arrest, with two of these warrants were for a single police officer.
Thus, three other suspects police are still fugitive. According to Caetano Filho, four surveys were initiated in Corregedoria to investigate the involvement of police in crimes of extortion, kidnapping and extortion by gang training.
"These facts came to light only after the arrest of Abbey (in August 2007). The investigation began on August 16, 2007, but the facts are for the first half of 2006. All that police are involved, regardless of class, are being investigated. The police will be purged bad, "said Caetano Filho, during press conference on the afternoon of Saturday.
At least 20 people have been indicted in the investigation, 17 police and three alleged police informants, the "goose".
According Caetano Filho, one of the investigators arrested is accused of kidnapping the driver of Abbey and require a motorcycle as ransom. The police arrested another is accused of extorting money from an "orange" that was laundering money for the dealer. In addition to R $ 400 thousand in cash, he demanded a car. At the time, worked in a Police District 41 in Villa Rica in the South Zone of São Paulo and another in Diadema, on ABC.
The delegate said that the divisional police denied the crimes to be arrested. The suspects are detained in police carcerageram's own Corregedoria.
Abadia was extradited to the United States in the early hours of August 22, 2008. He was removed from the Maximum Security Prison Federal de Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, and taken to a prison unit in the United States. In Brazil, the Colombian drug dealer was accused of money laundering, use of false documents, training of corruption and gang active.
Source : G1
