The Minas Gerais Court ordered the removal of the electronic ankle bracelet from Civil Police employee Vanessa de Lima Figueiredo, accused of embezzling more than 200 weapons, money and other objects from the 1st Barreiro Police Station, in Belo Horizonte.
In the decision, the judge considered that the employee complied with all the restrictions imposed in the last eight months and canceled the international trip that had motivated the monitoring. With that, he understood that there is no reason to keep the ankle bracelet.
Vanessa, who is charged with embezzlement, must appear in court every month and remains banned from leaving the country, with her passport being withheld. She was also removed from her role and banned from attending Civil Police units in Minas Gerais.
The electronic monitoring had been ordered after authorities discovered the purchase of a ticket to the United States, scheduled to board four days before a court hearing. At the time, the court considered that there was a risk of escape. The defense informed that the trip was cancelled.
New steps
The judge also ordered new steps to clarify whether materials missing from the police station were found and demanded the delivery of expert reports still pending.
A report from the Civil Police Internal Affairs, to which g1 previously had access, had already identified weapons diverted from the unit in new police incidents, in Belo Horizonte, in the Metropolitan Region, in the interior of Minas Gerais and in other states.
The survey crossed seizure records with information from police systems, mainly based on the serial numbers of weapons. According to the investigation, some of the weapons were sold to criminal organizations, such as the Third Pure Command (TCP).
A report attached to the process calculates losses of more than R$1.7 million to public coffers.
Vanessa de Lima Figueiredo, a civil servant suspected of embezzling weapons, underwent a custody hearing this Tuesday (11). — Photo: Reproduction
Remember the case
The disappearance of around 220 weapons was discovered after police officers found weapons on a suspect that had already been seized and should have been stored at the police station.
According to the complaint from the Public Ministry of Minas Gerais (MPMG), an inventory carried out on October 29, 2025 revealed the absence of approximately 200 weapons, as well as money and other objects.
At the time, Vanessa was responsible for the protocol sector and the room where the seized materials were stored. According to the investigation, she was the only person with the key to the room and, in many cases, the person ultimately responsible for registering the items in the Civil Police system.
One of the packages, which should have contained R$1,908, was found violated and empty. Other wrappings were also open, including inside a locked cabinet that, according to the investigation, was unknown to the other servers.
Vanessa was arrested in November 2025 and became a defendant on December 17 of that year, when the Court accepted the complaint for embezzlement — a crime that involves the appropriation or diversion, by a public servant, of goods or values to which he has access due to his position.
Security cameras show Vanessa walking with a bag on the police station street, close to the red vehicle she uses (left); at another time, a man was seen taking an object from her car and placing it in a white vehicle (right) — Photo: Reproduction
What the defense says
In previous demonstrations, Vanessa's defense denied irregularities and questioned the consistency of the evidence.
The lawyers also challenged the participation, in the investigations, of police officers who were responsible for the missing materials. For the defense, this circumstance compromises the impartiality of the investigation.
