Elvis Riola de Andrade, 46 years old, appointed as a member of the First Command of the Capital, the PCC benefited after the Court maintained an injunction that guarantees the freedom of “Singer ”. He is the former director of the Gaviões da Fiel samba school. Elvis was released last Tuesday (5), following a decision by the Superior Justice Tribunal (STJ).
Riola had been arrested in Bolivia on January 10 and extradited to Brazil. He was captured in Santa Cruz de La Sierra, after an intelligence process between the Bolivian police and the Brazilian authorities. However, a habeas corpus issued in December by the STJ allowed the defendant to respond freely.
In a complaint from the Public Ministry of São Paulo, Riola was accused of being responsible for executing prison officer Denilson Dantas Jerônimo, in 2009, at the behest of the PCC leadership.
Still in the same complaint, the MP names 175 alleged members of the São Paulo faction and details the functioning of the organization, as well as the commission of crimes such as drug trafficking and attacks on public agents. Among those reported are Marco William Herbas Camacho, known as Marcola. The process takes place in secret.
In the trial of the injunction that decided for Cantor's freedom, the Fifth Panel of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) did not use the MP's complaint in question. However, Riola's criminal record is extensive and includes crimes such as transport robbery, use of restricted weapons, drug and weapons trafficking, as well as rescuing a prisoner from the Ituverava Public Prison.
Carrier robbery
In March 2005, a group formed by Elvis and 5 other members invaded a transport company in Embu das Artes, in Greater SP, carrying machine guns and rifles. The bandits took “various electronic devices, foodstuffs, medicines, hygiene products, perfumery, trucks, firearms, among other goods, valued at R$ 2,720,000.00”, according to the process to which the CNN had access.
Three years later, the court decided to place the defendants on provisional release. The case in question was added to the one that accuses Riola of forming a gang to commit crimes. Due to lack of evidence, the crime expired and was archived.
Prisoner rescue
Months later, in October of the same year, Cantor and three other suspects invaded the Ituverava public prison, in the interior of São Paulo, carrying restricted weapons such as an automatic Israeli submachine gun, as well as a semi-automatic pistol with a shaved number and a Bulgarian rifle. They were still wearing ballistic vests.
According to the records, the suspects broke into the jail, captured one of the correctional officers, and stole the employee's gun using death threats. They then ordered the agent to continue lying down in one of the rooms, otherwise he would be killed.
In addition to this agent, they surrendered two others. The plan was to rescue a prisoner, in this case Cristiano Dias Ferreira, but when the accused disabled a metal door that gave access to the cells, they facilitated the escape of six other inmates.
On their way out, they shot at military police officers, damaging a vehicle. Due to the injuries caused to one of the criminal officers, the police gave up chasing the suspects, so that they could escape.
In testimony, the witnesses, who were the criminal agents, declared that they were unable to see or identify the suspects, as at all times the gang ordered the agents to lie down or on their backs.
Riola's defense claimed that it carried out investigations and that the defendant was not at the scene of the crime, as he was in the capital of São Paulo, at his daughter's birthday party, who was 1 year old at the time.
In addition to this allegation, Riola's lawyers also stated that the recognition of the witnesses was null, in addition to that the MPSP's complaint was unfounded, not effectively pointing out the defendant's conduct and what he had actually done in the action. After the crime, in 2006, Riola was arrested, spending just a month in prison.
Fourteen years later, in 2019, a decision authorized by the Public Prosecutor's Office ordered the destruction of the weapons used in the crime, as well as putting the vehicle, model Kadett, up for auction, as due to the stopped weather, a breeding ground for mosquitoes and stagnant water had formed. , which can cause diseases such as dengue.
The most recent movement in the process taking place in the Ituverava district was in September, and shows that it is in the final arguments, after the presentation by the MP and lawyers. As it is physical, the process was sent to a company to be digitized. Therefore, there is no defined sentence.
Death of criminal agent
Denilson Dantas de Gerônimo was a penal officer and worked at the Penitentiary Rehabilitation Center (CRP) in Presidente Bernardes. He was shot dead in 2009, when he arrived home, in the city of Álvares Machado (SP).
At the time, Elvis lived in the capital and had no relationship with Oeste Paulista, the region of the state where the cities of Álvares Machado and Presidente Bernardes are located. He was director of the Gaviões da Fiel samba school, in São Paulo.
Years after the crime, the Singer would be imprisoned for almost two years in Presidente Venceslau, also in Oeste Paulista, as stated in Elvis' record at the Penitentiary Administration Secretariat, SEAP.
At the time of the crime, Denilson's fiancee, who witnessed the murder, recognized Riola as the shooter. He confessed to the crime, including those who ordered it, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the courts, in an initial semi-open regime, with the right to respond in freedom.
The São Paulo Court of Justice (TJSP) increased Cantor's sentence to 16 years, changing the regime to closed and reestablishing preventive detention. However, the decision of the Superior of Justice (cited at the beginning of this report) revoked the TJSP's request.
At the trial, judge Daniela Teixeira stated that, in the case in question, what was at stake was only Elvis' participation in the agent's death, without considering the possible relationship with the PCC.
“What guides me is to judge based on what is in the records. The defense's word, for this judge, has the same weight as the accusation. With all due respect to the press, it has no place in the judicial process. I cannot consider what came out in the press about this patient. In this case under trial, there is no word 'trafficking', no word 'criminal organization',” she said.
700 kg of “Música”
In addition to the murder charge, Riola is accused of drug trafficking, where the MPSP associates him with 700 kg of marijuana seized by the police.
In the complaint, telephone interceptions link Cantor to 727 kg of marijuana and 2.9 kg of cocaine, seized by the police in a mechanic's workshop in the north of the capital.
In one of the audios, one of those investigated mentions the drugs that arrived from “Música”, one of the nicknames given to Elvis by the faction, are stored in a safe.
In the records, Rogério Jeremias, Gegê do Mangue, one of the PCC leaders, who was released by the courts in 2018 and ended up murdered during an ambush in Ceará, states that there are “700 [KG] to the family”. In another interception, Elvis' own sister was caught talking to one of those investigated about the shipment of marijuana
Luxury living in Bolivia
The Singer, captured in Santa Cruz de La Sierra, after an intelligence process between the Bolivian police and the Brazilian authorities, led a life of luxury, according to the São Paulo Public Ministry, with the right to even be a “chauffeur” in the neighboring country, where he lived with his wife and five children.
According to investigations, Elvis owned bars, restaurants, imported vehicles, as well as a private driver.
(*Under the supervision of Felipe Andrade)
Source: CNN Brasil
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