Flamengo player summoned to explain connection to militia.

Flamengo player Luiz Antônio de Souza Soares, known as Luiz Antônio, and his father, Luiz Francisco Soares, are expected to be heard in the coming days at the Organized Crime Repression and Special Investigations Police Station (Draco-IE) regarding their alleged involvement with militiamen from the so-called Justice League, which operates in the west zone of Rio. The two were summoned this Monday (11) to provide clarifications.

The State Secretariat of Security informed, in a statement, that the head of the Draco-IE police station, Alexandre Capote, will only speak about the possible involvement of the Flamengo midfielder with the militia after hearing from the player and his father. The club's press office informed that, for now, it will not comment on the case. There is no official information about what kind of involvement Luiz Antônio might have with the militiamen. (Source: [Source name]) Fantastic which aired yesterday (10) the delegate says that a football player, whose name was not disclosed, was being investigated for having given one of the gang leaders a car as a gift.

On the 7th of this month, the Civil Police dismantled a gang formed by former military police officers and other members, as well as a firefighter and a civil police officer. The group is accused of violently controlling at least six condominiums of the Minha Casa, Minha Vida program, a popular housing program of the federal government.

Residents of the properties were forced to pay service fees, and those who refused were evicted from their homes. The apartments were then rented or sold without any documentation. In the police operation, 19 of the 27 arrest warrants issued were executed.

The suspects are accused of crimes including robbery, torture, concealment of a corpse, unlawful restraint, and defamation. Identified as the head of the militia, military police officer Marco José de Lima Gomes, known as Gão, was arrested on the 6th of this month. He led the gang in place of Toni Ângelo Souza de Aguiar, who was arrested in 2013.