In addition to Moro, the prosecutor investigating the PCC was also a target of a group that intended to kill authorities.
Lincoln Gakiya was the one who requested the transfer of Marcola and 21 other PCC members to maximum security prisons.
247 - In addition to Senator Sergio Moro, prosecutor Lincoln Gakiya, from the Gaeco (Special Action Group to Combat Organized Crime of the Public Prosecutor's Office of São Paulo), was among the targets of the criminal group that planned to kill and kidnap authorities. This information comes from... g1.
The Federal Police are conducting an operation against this group, having already arrested six people. Federal police officers are executing 11 arrest warrants and 24 search and seizure warrants in at least four states (Rondônia, Paraná, Mato Grosso do Sul, and São Paulo) and the Federal District. Most of the targets are believed to be in the Campinas region.
>>> Moro says he is the victim of an assassination plot.
In 2019, when Moro was Minister of Public Security, the Jair Bolsonaro government and the São Paulo state government worked together to transfer Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, also known as Marcola, and 21 other members of the PCC to maximum security prisons.
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At the time, the operation took place after the Public Prosecutor's Office discovered a plan by the faction to rescue its main leaders who were being held in Penitentiary 2 of Presidente Venceslau, in the interior of São Paulo state. It was the prosecutor who requested the transfer and, since then, has been the target of death threats.
On social media, the senator and former judge stated that the assassination plot against him was retaliation by the PCC.