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Brazil’s Federal Police and Paraguay’s SENAD have begun the 59th phase of Operation Nova Aliança, a bilateral campaign targeting illicit cannabis crops and drug-production infrastructure. Early operations in Paraguay’s Canindeyú department reportedly removed more than 48 tonnes of marijuana.
Brazil’s Federal Police and Paraguay’s SENAD have begun the 59th phase of Operation Nova Aliança, a bilateral campaign targeting illicit cannabis crops and drug-production infrastructure. Early operations in Paraguay’s Canindeyú department reportedly removed more than 48 tonnes of marijuana.
Brazil’s Federal Police has inaugurated a forensic geochemistry laboratory intended to compare seized gold with reference data from mineral deposits, supporting investigations into illegal mining and related environmental crimes.
Brazil’s Federal Police and federal comptroller have searched premises in Goiás and Mato Grosso over suspected irregularities in federally funded engineering contracts in Aragarças. No charges, arrests or convictions have been announced.
Brazil’s Federal Police have arrested six people and searched 26 locations in an investigation into suspected irregularities involving contracts and payments at Mato Grosso’s state audit court. The inquiry is at a preliminary stage and no charges or findings of guilt have been identified.
Brazil’s Federal Police executed four Supreme Federal Court-authorized search warrants in Rio de Janeiro in the ninth phase of Operation Unha e Carne. The inquiry is examining suspected laundering and asset-concealment structures; no guilt has been established.
Brazil’s Federal Police will investigate possible foreign resources, overseas-paid election content, platform conduct and links to interests in critical minerals under an order by Supreme Court Justice Flávio Dino. The court said the allegations warrant scrutiny but do not establish wrongdoing.
Brazilian federal police and the federal comptroller have opened an investigation into suspected fraudulent access to fishing-benefit payments in Maranhão. Authorities executed 35 warrants, obtained asset-blocking orders of about R$400 million and estimate the alleged scheme could have caused R$10 billion in losses over five years if it had continued.
Brazil’s Federal Police will open a Supreme Court-supervised inquiry into allegations of foreign interference involving Flávio Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign. The order does not establish that foreign support reached the campaign or that any crime occurred.
Brazil’s Federal Police said it had opened 1,538 electoral-crime inquiries in 2026 as of October 21, alongside 89 operations and R$51.6 million in reported seizures, before the October 25 runoff.
Brazil’s Federal Police arrested Rio de Janeiro state deputy Márcio Canella and former Civil Police chief Marcus Vinicius Amim Fernandes as part of an investigation into a suspected criminal organization. The case remains at the investigative stage, with no charges, trial or convictions identified.
Brazil’s top electoral court unanimously ordered the Liberal Party to remove an Instagram video that used AI-generated imagery to depict President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a fictitious prison encounter and associate him with organized crime.
Brazil’s Federal Police executed 13 search-and-seizure warrants in Rio de Janeiro as part of an investigation into possible fraud in a March 2026 public examination held by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.