Founder of GAS Consultoria and wife deny to the court that moving to the USA was an escape

The founder of GAS Consultoria, and his wife and partner, Mirelis Diaz Zerpa, told the Federal Court that her move to the United States took place before Operation Kryptos, in which the "Pharaoh of Bitcoins" was arrested by the Federal Police, in August 2021.

In interrogations provided to the Court, to which Fantástico had exclusive access, the two denied that the trip was an escape in the face of investigations into GAS.

According to the statements, Mirelis started living in the country about two months before Glaidson's arrest, on a student visa.

Like Glaidson, Mirelis also had preventive detention ordered by the courts, but at the time she was not found.

According to the investigation, Glaidson and Mirelis headed the illegal cryptocurrency investment scheme that generated R$38 billion.

The two are accused of criminal organization and crimes against the national financial system, such as irregular offering of securities (investments), operating a financial institution without authorization and fraudulent management.

Mirelis said that she obtained a student visa after completing the consular process in Mexico, in June or July 2021. According to her, at that time, in Brazil, authorization to study in the United States took almost 1 year.

She said she went straight from Mexico to the United States because English classes started the same week her visa came out.

"If I didn't go to the United States, I would lose my visa," he said.

She declared that she was not aware of any investigation related to GAS Consultoria when she left Brazil.

"I didn't know there was an investigation. I had no idea," he said during interrogation.

Mirelis also stated that the move was not related to Operation Kryptos and that the initial plan was not to remain permanently in the United States.

"When I arrived in the United States, I was there waiting for my husband, but our idea was to stay there for a while and return here, to Brazil. It was never about staying and living in the United States."

Glaidson told the court that his wife left Brazil two months before Operation Kryptos and maintained that the trip was planned by him.

"I was the one who controlled her life. She didn't go to the United States on her own. She went to the United States because I wanted to, I had plans to live in the United States, because I didn't want to stay in Brazil anymore. (...) It was the question she asked 'what am I going to do?'. 'Mirelis, you're going to study there. I'm going to get you a student visa'."

Asked about the topic, Glaidson stated that the trip was not an attempt to escape the authorities. And if Mirelis tried to leave the country after the operation that arrested him, she would also have been detained.

"There would be no way to leave it, because if an arrest warrant is issued and passes through the International Airport, the Federal Police will arrest them. Or not?"

During interrogation, Mirelis stated that she was arrested in January 2024, in Chicago, when she was in a car using an app to go to school where she studied English.

"The immigration police asked me 'are you Mirelis Diaz?' Then I said 'yes, I'm Mirelis Diaz'. Then he told me 'You're under arrest'."

According to the report, American authorities informed him that his student visa had been canceled.

She was deported to Brazil in June 2025, and has remained in preventive detention in Rio since then.

In a statement, Mirelis' defense stated that "at the time of the launch of Operation Kryptos, Mirelis was legally residing in the United States, where he was studying English."