The businessman was shot upon arrival at Terminal 2 of Guarulhos airport; was an informant in a money laundering investigation by the Capital’s First Command
There are many unanswered questions in the case of businessman shot dead this Friday, 8, at Guarulhos International Airportin Grande Saint Paul. However, some information helps to understand the dynamics of the attack, which occurred in broad daylight in one of the busiest terminals in the country.
As they show security camera images, Antonio Vinicius Lopes Gritzbach He was shot upon arrival at Terminal 2, intended for domestic flights. He was an informant money laundering investigation First command of the capital (PCC). Three people were injured: the app driver, an airport contractor and a passenger.
How many shots were fired by the criminals?
From 27 rifle shots They were carried out by two criminals around 4pm in the country’s largest airport. Security camera footage shows the pair got out of a black car and surprised the businessman, who died at the scene. They quickly got into the car and then fled.
Were there more people injured?
The shooting generated a surge of traffic in the terminal, which was quite crowded at the time of the attack. At least three other people were injured: two men, aged 39 and 41, hospitalized at Guarulhos General Hospital, and a woman, aged 28, who was released after receiving medical treatment.
According to the information contained in the case report, to which the Estadao had access, the driver was hit in the back, while the outsourced employee suffered injuries to his hand and shoulder. The woman reportedly had a superficial wound to her abdomen..
Were there no guards protecting the place?
THE Estadao they discovered that a couple from the Guarulhos Municipal Civil Guard (GCM) were on patrol at the location where the shooting occurred until around 1pm, when they identified a suspect who had tampered with a car’s license plate. They later took him to the airport police station. Because it took three hours to record the incident, officers were not at the scene of the shooting.
Didn’t Antonio Gritzbach have an armed escort?
According to initial information, Gritzbach had just returned from a trip with his girlfriend and was welcomed at the terminal where the shooting occurred by his son and a group of four security guards, made up of military police officers who privately protected the wounded. businessman. On the way to the airport, however, one of the cars used had a mechanical failure. Three of the security guards later remained in the vehicle. THE the conduct of the officers is investigated by the police.
How did the killers know the victim’s flight time?
The police have not yet released this information, but researchers and authorities believe that, given the characteristics of the attack, it was planned in advance and that there was a leak of information, perhaps by those who knew the attack’s routine well. informant: the police in the case. the report indicates that Gritzbach arrived with his girlfriend from a trip to the Northeast.
“The information leak is a relevant suspicion. How did it leak? How did they do it (criminals) Could they achieve the goal? How did they get the chance to do this planning? These are questions that still have no answer,” wrote researcher Bruno Paes Manso, from the Center for Studies on Violence (NEV) at the University of São Paulo (USP), in published analysis node Estadao.
Who is investigating the businessman’s death?
The investigation of the case is entrusted to the Department of Homicide and Human Protection (DHPP) of the Civil Police, based in the capital of Sao Paulo. As soon as the case was taken over, the specialized sector carried out an inspection of the site of the entrepreneur’s killing (an investigation that lasted approximately 5.30 hours) and seized the two cars used by the victim’s private escort. The area of the terminal where the shooting occurred was reopened to passenger movement around 9.30pm.
Did the CCP order the murder of the informant?
The perpetrator of the crime is still unknown. Gritzbach signed a plea agreement, approved by the Court in April. Negotiations with the State Public Prosecutor they lasted two years and he had already made six declarations. In his statement, the businessman spoke about the involvement of the CCP, the country’s largest criminal organization, with football and the real estate market. The businessman also provided information on the assassinations of faction leaders, such as Cara Preta and Django.
Had the whistleblower already been the target of an attack?
Gritzbach had already been the target of an attack on Christmas Eve 2023, when a rifle shot was fired against the window of the apartment where he lives, in Tatuapé, in the eastern area, but the perpetrator missed the target. The report shows that the police have already identified the person responsible for the attack.
Could this be the worst attack in the CCP’s history?
For the public prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of São Paulo (MP-SP) Marcio Sérgio Christino, heard by the Estadaothe murder of the entrepreneur Antonio Vinicius Lopes Gritzbach, if confirmed to have been carried out by the First Command of the Capital, it does not represent a change in level or a significant increase in faction violence. Christino is the author of the book Blood tieson the history of the criminal organization.
“The faction killed Judge Machado (Antonio José Machado Dias)in Presidente Prudente, in 2003, before the forum; killed Ismael Pedrosa (director of the House of Detention in 1992, when 111 prisoners were killed by military police) in 2005; they killed 70 police officers during the 2006 attacks, and what happened now is surprising? All this is more serious than Friday’s crime,” says Christino. “It seems like people have forgotten about it (from previous crimes).”
For other analysts, however, the audacity of the crime attracts attention. This is the case of judge Ivana David, judge of the Court of Justice of São Paulo with experience in cases linked to criminal organisations: “The audacity of the place, the largest airport in the country, at 4pm on a Friday, in the pedestrian lane , with rifle shots”, he commented.
What is Gritzbach’s relationship with Porte Engenharia?
Gritzbach worked Doors Engineering and Urban Planningone of the largest construction companies in the city, from 2014 to 2018. He told investigators that he met members of the faction “in the work environment of the Door” through a real estate agent due to the sale of two apartments in Tatuapé, in the east of São Paulo, a region that has become a stronghold of the PCC leadership.
THE The State Public Ministry (MPE) is investigating Portesuspected of selling more than a dozen properties to drug traffickers, according to the former employee’s statement. According to the plea agreement, Porte executives received payments for the properties in cash and were aware of real estate documents in which the name of the real owner was hidden.
In a statement, Porte said this Friday that it had been informed by the press of the death of Gritzbach, “with whom it had not done business for years”. And specifies that he was a “real estate agent at the company only between 2014 and 2018? The construction company specified that the murder at the airport must be “monitored and clarified by the competent authorities” to contribute to the investigative processes in course”.
Source: Terra
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