Gusttavo Lima is under investigation for money laundering and criminal organization; the singer denies any wrongdoing

Gusttavo Lima is under investigation for money laundering and criminal organization; the singer denies any wrongdoing


The artist is one of the targets of the Operation Integration of the Civil Police of Pernambuco, which has 53 targets in six Brazilian states




The Civil Police of Pernambuco have indicted singer Gusttavo Lima for money laundering and criminal organization. The measure is part of Operation Integration, which includes 53 objectives in six Brazilian states, as shown by a report by the Fantastic this Sunday, the 29th.

The singer’s indictment occurred on September 15, eight days before the Pernambuco court ordered his arrest, as well as the suspension of his passport and gun registration certificate. The decision was revoked at second instance the following day.

It is up to the Public Prosecutor decide whether or not to report Gustavo Lima.

New details of the investigation were released Sunday. The police seized R$150,000 from the headquarters of Balada Eventos e Produções, the singer’s concert company based in Goiânia (GO).

Also found were 18 consecutive invoices, issued on the same day and for fractional amounts from another of the singer’s companies, GSA Empreenggiatos, for PIX365 Soluções. According to the police, he is Vai de Bet, who is also under investigation.

In total, there is more than R$8 million for the use of Gustavo Lima’s image. According to the police, the seized cash and invoices are two indications of money laundering.

*The article is being updated.





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What happened to Gustavo Lima?

The 35-year-old singer was arrested on Monday afternoon, the 23rd, as part of Operation Integration, which investigates an alleged money laundering scheme linked to betting. The operation is the same one that arrested the lawyer and influencer Deolane Bezerra, who was released from prison on Tuesday, the same day his compatriot had his arrest warrant revoked.

The preventive arrest warrant was issued by judge Andrea Calado da Cruz, of the 12th Criminal Court of Recife, who accepted the request of the Civil Police of Pernambuco. “It is imperative to underline that Nivaldo Batista Lima [nome verdadeiro de Gusttavo Lima]by sheltering fugitives, it demonstrates an alarming lack of regard for justice. His intense financial dealings with these individuals, which include suspicious movements, raise serious questions about his participation in criminal activities. Your company’s connection to the money laundering network suggests a commitment that cannot be ignored,” the judge wrote in the document.

At the time, Gusttavo Lima’s defense called the decision “unjust and without legal basis” and declared that it would spare no effort to prove the compatriot’s innocence.





The court revokes the arrest order against Gusttavo Lima:

Can Gustavo Lima still be arrested?

The compatriot was in Miami, in the United States, when his arrest was ordered. That’s why he wasn’t arrested. For judge Andrea Calado da Cruz, the singer gave ‘hostel to fugitives’, demonstrating ‘an alarming lack of consideration for justice’.

This was stated by the lawyer Bruno Dallari Oliveira Lima, criminal lawyer of the Oliveira Lima & Dall’Acqua Advogados firm. The investigations will have to present new incriminating facts in order for there to be a new arrest request against the singer.

“The police cannot simply submit a new arrest request because the previous one has simply been revoked. There should be a new fact that gives rise to this new arrest request. Let me give an example: suppose the police find a telephone conversation from which it appears that Gusttavo Lima was aware of an escape. It would be a new fact and, therefore, it could be used to request the arrest, but it must be a new fact, not a mere indication”, he stated.





“Unjust decision and without legal basis”, states Gusttavo Lima’s defense regarding the arrest order:

The criminal lawyer Eugênio Malavasi considers the already revoked request for preventive detention against Gusttavo Lima to be ‘illegal’.

“The underlining that I make from the outside, as a lawyer who has carried out an analysis from the outside, is in my opinion the total illegitimacy of the reasons expressed in the decision which decreed the preventive detention”, he stated, continuing:

“In my opinion this arrest violates not only the procedural dictates, which establish this type of restrictive precautionary measure which is preventive detention, therefore provisional detention, before the courts declare him guilty. He has not even been reported, so he is alone and only under investigation”, reiterated Malavasi.

“The reason why this arrest, in my opinion, is absolutely illegal is that it violates procedural rules, violates the Code of Criminal Procedure and, above all, the Federal Constitution, which establishes the presumption of innocence as a constitutional principle”, concluded the criminologist .

Source: Terra

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