Lawyer and digital influencer Deolane Bezerra was arrested this Thursday morning at Grande São Paulo. The arrest occurred during the execution of Operação Vérnix warrants. Ministério Público and Polícia Civil coordinated the joint action. Investigators are investigating a structured money laundering scheme linked to Primeiro Comando of Capital. The police offensive also targeted family members of Marco Herbas Camacho, Marcola, identified as the top leader of the criminal organization. Esta is the second time that the public figure has faced the prison system in less than a year. Agentes security officers located the person under investigation at her high-end residence in the municipality of Barueri.
Detalhes of Operação Vérnix and warrants served
The arrest took place just one day after the lawyer returned to national territory. Ela has spent the last few weeks in Roma’s city, at Itália. Durante period abroad, the Brazilian authorities requested the inclusion of his name on the list of Difusão Vermelha and Interpol. The measure aimed to guarantee immediate capture if there was an attempt to escape to other European countries. The police executed search and seizure warrants at the luxury property in Alphaville and at several commercial addresses associated with the investigated companies in the capital of São Paulo.
The scope of the operation affected six people with preventive detention orders issued by Justiça. Everton of Souza was arrested on formal charges of acting as a financial operator for the illicit group. The family structure at the top of the faction also suffered significant losses as a result of the investigations carried out this Thursday. Alejandro Camacho, brother of Marcola, received a new arrest order while he is already serving a sentence in Penitenciária Federal of Brasília. Dois, the leader’s nephews, identified as Paloma Sanches Herbas Camacho and Leonardo Alexsander Ribeiro Herbas Camacho, were not located by police teams and remain fugitives abroad.
Origem from the investigation into the penitentiary system
Tracking financial activities began seven years ago, after a routine search of prison units in São Paulo. Policiais criminals seized notes and manuscripts from the possession of two inmates allocated to Penitenciária II of Presidente Venceslau. The material contained the organization’s internal guidelines. The texts also detailed plans to attack state public servants. The discovery resulted in the immediate conviction of those involved. The prison system transferred both men to maximum security federal prisons shortly after the documents were seized.
A specific excerpt from the manuscripts caught the attention of Justiça prosecutors during their analysis of the evidence. The text mentioned a woman linked to a transport company, responsible for mapping authorities’ addresses to facilitate attacks. Polícia Civil opened a parallel investigation to identify the suspect and understand the operation of the logistics company. Investigations revealed that the carrier, based in the interior of São Paulo, operated exclusively as a corporate front. Operação Lado to Lado, triggered in 2021, demonstrated incompatible financial movements and asset growth without any real economic backing.
Conexões financial and equity lock
The direct link between the influencer and the criminal scheme emerged from the analysis of electronic equipment seized in previous phases. Peritos criminals extracted data from Ciro Cesar Lemos’s cell phone. The police identify the suspect as the central coordinator of the group’s finances. The device’s image gallery stored several proofs of bank deposits directed to Deolane Bezerra’s personal and business accounts. Financial intelligence reports confirmed the constant flow of capital between the investigated parties.
Investigators mapped the method used to transfer resources without alerting the federal government’s fiscal control bodies. The criminal group adopted the practice known in the financial system as smurfing to move illicit money silently.
- Depósitos splits are always kept below the limit of R$10,000 to avoid automatic notifications from Banco Central.
- Transferências which totaled R$ 1,067,505.00 between 2018 and 2021, coordinated by Everton of Souza.
- Envio of R$ 716 thousand divided into almost 50 different operations for two companies registered in the lawyer’s name.
The São Paulo judiciary ordered the immediate freezing of assets to decapitalize the criminal organization. Authorities blocked R$357.5 million in financial assets from all targets of the operation. Apenas in Deolane Bezerra’s accounts, Justiça retained R$27 million. The prosecutors found the absence of legal services provided that would justify the amounts transferred. The decision also included the seizure of 39 high-end vehicles, valued at more than R$8 million. Justiça understood that the investigated company’s formal business activity served as a layer of protection to make it difficult to identify the illicit origin of the resources.
Histórico judicial and projection on social networks
The lawyer’s first clash with security forces occurred in September 2024. Polícia Civil of Pernambuco arrested the influencer during Operação Integration. The northeastern investigation focused on a money laundering scheme operated through online betting and illegal gambling platforms. Ela remained detained for five days in a prison unit in Recife’s city. The release occurred upon the granting of a habeas corpus. The court conditioned his freedom on the use of an electronic ankle monitor and other restrictive precautionary measures.
The influencer’s technical defense denied the accusations relating to the Pernambuco case at the time of the events. The lawyers supported the thesis of institutional persecution and abuse of authority by the responsible delegates. The authorities had blocked around R$2.1 billion worth of assets belonging to all those investigated at that time. Police reports showed investments of R$65 million in the purchase of 12 luxury properties over three years. The original case is still being processed at Justiça without a definitive conviction announced so far.
The public figure gained national notoriety in May 2021, after the death of her husband, singer MC Kevin. The artist fell from the balcony of a hotel located in Barra of Tijuca, on the west side of Rio of Janeiro. Polícia Civil from Rio de Janeiro concluded that the fall occurred accidentally, with no signs of aggression. Desde then, the widow expanded her activities on the internet and accumulated more than 21 million followers on Instagram. The profile displayed a routine marked by international travel for Dubai, acquisition of mansions in Alphaville and frequent use of helicopters and private jets.