Antônio Victor de Araújo Ferreira, known as "Moskou", was acquitted this Thursday (5) of the charge of attempted murder against five people, but was convicted of the crime of joining a criminal organization. Moskou was identified as the mastermind of a shooting attack that left five injured in 2025 in retaliation for the murder of his girlfriend and her sister, in Fortaleza.
In addition to Antônio Victor, the court had indicted Igor Rodrigues da Cruz and Ruan Pablo Ribeiro Serra on the same two charges, five attempted murders and being part of a criminal organization. The three were tried at the 6th Jury Court of the District of Fortaleza and all were acquitted of the first charge, but convicted of the second crime.
According to the police investigation, the shooting attack for which Moskou was accused and now cleared was in retaliation for the death of sisters Bianca dos Santos, better known as "Bia", aged 15, who was two months pregnant, and Maria Beatriz dos Santos, aged 20, which occurred in May 2025. Bianca was Moskou's girlfriend.
According to the Police, Moskou was actually the real target of the attack that left the two young women dead. After the murder of his sisters, Antônio Victor made a series of posts on Instagram, where he had hundreds of thousands of followers, lamenting his girlfriend's death and stating that the case "wouldn't stay like this".
A few hours after the sisters' murder, a group of men in a car went to the place known as Campo do Cruzeiro, also in the Barra do Ceará neighborhood, and shot at the people who were there. The area is known as territory of the rival Moskou faction.
The attack left five men injured, aged 25, 31, 38, 47 and 68. They were taken to a local health unit and then transferred to a hospital. Three of them were in serious condition.
Antônio Victor, known as Moskou, was arrested on the same day as the attack on suspicion of having ordered the crime. The other defendant, Igor Rodrigues da Cruz, accused of having participated in the attack, was also arrested on the same day after being found by the police at the Instituto Dr. José Frota (IJF) hospital with a gunshot wound to his back.
The three defendants were acquitted of the charge of five attempted murders, but were sentenced to open prison for being part of a criminal organization. Check out the feathers:
Antônio Victor de Araújo, Moskou: 3 years, 10 months and 16 days in open regime
Igor Rodrigues da Cruz: 3 years, 10 months and 17 days in open regime
Ruan Pablo Ribeiro Serra: 4 years and 1 month in open regime
One of Moskou's defense lawyers, Victor Coelho, celebrated the outcome of the trial.
"We received the result with satisfaction, as we understand that the Sentencing Council's decision did justice to the evidence presented in plenary. Our constituent arrived at the Jury Court accused of five attempted murders, all accompanied by qualifications, and was acquitted of all of them", he stated.
Moskou's defense was also made up of lawyers Benicio Pedrosa do Nascimento, Jhonata Pereira Mendonça, Roberto Levy da Silva Moraes, Anderson Rodrigues dos Santos and Ciderson Thaotris Nascimento Souza.
Maria Beatriz and her sister, Bianca, were shot dead; Bianca's boyfriend, Antônio Victor, was arrested for ordering retaliation — Photo: Reproduction
Sisters were killed by men on jet skis
Maria Beatriz dos Santos, 20 years old, and her sister Bianca dos Santos, better known as "Bia", were with a group on a groyne in Vila do Mar, in the Barra do Ceará neighborhood, when they were attacked by men who arrived by sea on a watercraft and in a motor boat.
Beatriz died at the scene. Bianca, Moskou's girlfriend, was rescued and taken to the Emergency Care Unit (UPA) in Bairro Cristo Redentor, but she could not resist her injuries and died in the health unit. The criminals fled.
According to the Civil Police, the attack was allegedly promoted by the criminal faction Comando Vermelho (CV) and targeted Moskou, which is a member of the rival group, Guardians of the State (GDE). However, as the young man was not found at the crime scene, the criminals shot the sisters.
In a statement to the Police, Antônio Victor, known as Moskou, said that the sisters called him to go to the spike where the crime took place, and that he didn't go because "the area was dangerous" and he was tired after recording videos for social media.
Moskou and her two sisters used to act in mini-soap operas on the social network Kwai. Their content, which most often dealt with dramas involving residents of a favela, had more than 10 million views at the time of the crimes. Together, the two sisters had more than 1 million followers.
On Instagram, the three used to share their daily lives and promote online gaming platforms, popularly known as "tigrinho game".
