Deolane's son moved R$11 million without formal occupation, says police
Influencer Giliard Vidal dos Santos, eldest son of Deolane Bezerra, was also the target of a search and seizure warrant this Thursday (21), during an operation carried out by the MPSP (Public Ministry of São Paulo), with support from the Civil Police of São Paulo.
The investigation investigates alleged crimes of criminal organization and money laundering linked, according to investigators, to the financial structure attributed to the criminal faction PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital).
According to the police investigation, obtained by CNN Brasil, Giliard has already moved more than R$11 million in his bank accounts, an amount considered "discrepant" by the investigations, since the young man has no history of formal occupation or consolidated business activity.
The analysis of the accounts carried out by the Civil Police considered the period between July 2022 and May 2024.
The document also points to the values observed in the accounts of the investigated person in the year 2023, when Giliard generated more than R$6 million, while declaring only around R$32,900.00 in income.
The investigations highlight that the analysis of Deolane's son's movements indicate a possible typical pattern of "concealment, dissimulation and diversion of capital, often associated with money laundering operations". Thus, the authorities verified how consistently Giliard sent significantly more resources than he received.
According to investigations, around R$366,000 from Giliard's accounts were allocated to 473 different people, ranging between R$5,000 and R$0.18. For the police, the way in which the money was also distributed indicates that Deolane's son's accounts would act as a "dispersion channel".
Thus, the pattern identified - and which is not supported by any commercial logic - points out that Giliard would act as a kind of "bridge" (or also known as "orange") to mask the origin of the money from the mother's business core.
According to investigations, this discrepant distribution is recognized by financial analyzes as "smurfing", a technique used in the money hiding phase to split large amounts into small payments, making it difficult to identify the origin and purpose of the resources.
CNN Brasil did not locate the defendant's defense at the time of publication of this report. The space remains open for demonstrations.
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Four cars were seized from the influencer alone - Reproduction/Social media
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In total, it is estimated that the vehicles together cost R$3 million.
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A Range Rover, an Escalade, a Jeep Limited and a Mercedes-AMG were seized. - Reproduction/Social Media
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Justice ordered the blocking of the influencer's financial assets - Reproduction/Social Networks
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Laundering scheme
The investigations revealed a million-dollar financial mechanism used to hide, dissimulate and reinsert into the formal economy values linked to the top leadership of the PCC criminal faction.
In 2019, Criminal Police agents seized notes and manuscripts inside Presidente Venceslau Penitentiary II, which were with two prisoners. The contents of the materials revealed some internal dynamics of the faction, such as the actions of imprisoned leaders and possible attacks against public agents.
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Three investigations were launched after the discovery, seeking to identify all the layers involved in the scheme. According to the authorities, the content of these notes included internal orders from the faction, contacts with members of high hierarchical position and mentions of violent actions against public servants.
Among the excerpts analyzed, there was mention of a "transportation woman", who had collected addresses of public agents to subsidize attacks planned by the PCC. The second investigation sought to identify who the woman mentioned was and what the transport company's relationship with the faction would be.
The investigation resulted in Operation Lado a Lado, which revealed incompatible financial movements, asset growth without sufficient economic backing and the use of the transport company as the true financial arm of the faction.
During the operation, the seizure of a cell phone opened a new investigative front. The content removed from the device revealed conversations with people linked to the PCC leadership, as well as evidence of financial transfers and connections with Deolane Bezerra.
Influencer Deolane Bezerra is arrested in an operation against the PCC in SP
Participation of the influencer
Investigations showed that Deolane had close ties - personal and business - with one of the ghost managers of the transport company investigated by the authorities. The objective of Operation Vernix, the third phase of the investigation, was to further expose the broader money laundering scheme.
The influencer, according to the police, came to occupy a prominent position in the case due to significant financial movements, asset incompatibilities and evidence of connection with members of the PCC's core command.
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The surveys also showed the use of legal entities, receipts of unclear origin, circulation of million-dollar amounts and acquisition or attachment to high-end assets.
For researchers, public projection, formal business activity and asset movements were used as layers of apparent legality to make it difficult to identify the illicit origin of resources.
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Other side
On social media, the influencer's sister, Daniele Bezerra, stated that Deolane's new arrest means persecution against the lawyer. See full note:
"Today, once again, they are trying to transform assumptions into truths and headlines into convictions. The arrest of Deolane Bezerra, on allegations of participation in a criminal organization, was born surrounded by lessons, narratives and persecutions that have been repeated for some time.
Accusing is easy. It's difficult to prove.
In Brazil, unfortunately, people often first expose themselves, destroy their image and condemn themselves in public opinion... and only then seek evidence to support what was done. And that's serious.
It cannot be accepted that Justice is used as a spectacle, nor that people are treated as guilty before due legal process. Prison cannot be an instrument of pressure, marketing or social revenge.
Anyone who knows the story, the struggle and its trajectory knows that there is a huge difference between facts and narratives created to fuel attacks. We will continue to trust in the truth, in Justice and in the right to defense, because persecution remains persecution, even when they try to give it another name."
Defense of Marco Willians Herbas Camacho, aka Marcola
Bruno Ferullo, lawyer of Marco Willians Herbas Camacho, comes to the public to clarify the facts related to Operation Vernix, launched on the morning of this Thursday, May 21, 2026, conducted by the Special Action Group to Combat Organized Crime (GAECO) of the region of Presidente Prudente, with support from the Civil Police of the State of São Paul.
The operation is part of investigations into alleged criminal organization and money laundering, involving alleged incompatible financial transactions and business connections investigated by the Public Prosecutor's Office.
It is important to contextualize that this entire investigative chain originated in July 2019, when prison officers found discarded manuscripts in the sewage tank of a cell at the Il de Presidente Venceslau Penitentiary, inhabited by two other prisoners. One of these notes mentioned 'that woman from the transport company', a reference that the police interpreted as indicating a link with a transport company in the region, Lopes Lemos Transportes Ltda.
From this single mention, successive investigations unfolded that, years later, arrived at Marco's name.
Compliance with precautionary measures does not imply, under any circumstances, a presumption of guilt.
The investigations attribute to Marco, in theory, alleged participation in the crimes of being part of a criminal organization and money laundering - related, according to the investigation, to third-party financial transactions and an indirect link with the transport company.
It is essential to make it clear that we are in the police investigation phase, which is based exclusively on 'indications and suspicions', expressions that, in law, have limited probative weight and that need to be submitted to the adversarial process before any conclusion can be reached. It is at this stage that the facts will be effectively investigated, with full exercise of broad defense.
We ask the press and society to guarantee the presumption of innocence, a fundamental right of the Brazilian legal system, refraining from hasty conclusions that could harm the progress of the process and the image of those involved before any definitive judicial pronouncement.
CNN Brasil is trying to contact the others mentioned. The space remains open.
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Source: CNN