Alexandre Pires is the target of an investigation by the Federal Police in an operation against illegal mining

Alexandre Pires was the target of a search and seizure warrant at his apartment in Itapema, on the North Coast of Santa Catarina, this Monday (4). The investigation is part of an investigation by the Federal Police to dismantle a financing and logistics scheme for illegal mining in the Yanomâmi Indigenous Land, Roraima. An investigation indicates that the artist had received R$1 million from a mining company under investigation.

According to the Federal Police, the scheme would be aimed at “washing” cassiterite illegally removed from indigenous land, in which the ore would be declared as originating from a regular mine on the Tapajós River, in Itaituba/PA, and supposedly transported to Roraima for treatment. .

The official PF portal informs that the agents served two arrest warrants, six search and seizure warrants, issued by the 4th Federal Court of the Judiciary Section of Roraima, in Boa Vista (RR), Mucajaí (RR), São Paulo (SP), Santos (SP), Santarém (PA), Uberlândia (MG) and Itapema (SC).

The agents searched Alexandre Pires’ property for documents that indicated possible payments from the mining company to the artist. Before the apartment in Santa Catarina, according to the newspaper O Globo, there was also a raid on a cruise where Pires was performing, on the coast of Santos. O F5 contacted the pagodeiro’s office, but received no response. The investigations remain ongoing.