Milton Leite becomes a defendant on suspicion of links to the PCC

The São Paulo Court accepted a complaint from the Public Ministry and made Milton Leite and 13 other people defendants on suspicion of links to the criminal faction Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC). Leite is a former councilor and former president of the São Paulo City Council and is in prison.

The politician affiliated with the União Brasil party went to jail in September after a Civil Police operation together with the Public Ministry that investigated the PCC's actions in public transport in São Paulo.

With the court's decision made public this Thursday (12), Leite's temporary arrest was converted into preventive detention. Another 11 defendants also had preventive arrests ordered.

In the document that makes Leite a defendant, the complaint states that he and the entire group of people being investigated "acted under the guidance of leaders of the criminal organization, such as Antônio José Muller Junior, aka 'Granada', and Marlon José de Souza Rosa, aka 'MR' and 'Murilo', denounced in a previous phase of this investigation. resources of the criminal organization".

Influence

Regarding Milton Leite, specifically, the document says that the former president of the Municipal Chamber of SP "promoted the interests of the criminal organization using his significant political influence and his status as de facto owner of the concessionaire Transwolff Transportes e Turismo Ltda., a company known to be linked to the criminal faction and recipient of illicit contributions, exercising acts of management, control and interference in favor of the permanence and favor of the criminal group in the urban public transport system of the capital of São Paulo".

The decision also points out that Leite was informed about the routine and business of the Transwolff Transportes concessionaire through "videos and information about the implementation of electric buses, the supply of chargers by Enel, the training of technicians and the Aquatic Project, operated by the economic group in the Bororé region".

After the court's decision, the defendants now have ten days to present their defense to the charges.

Milton Leite is detained at the Provisional Detention Center II in Guarulhos, in Greater São Paulo.