Operation targets group that sent hashish hidden in household appliances via e-commerce platform

The PF investigation, called Operation Yellow Code, shows that the group used household appliances, such as electric ovens, water fountains and cooktops, to hide shipments of hashish sent from the south of the country to recipients in the capital of São Paulo and the metropolitan region. The agents are on the streets to execute 14 preventive arrest warrants and 15 search and seizure warrants in São Paulo, São Caetano do Sul, Praia Grande, Pinhais (PR), Foz do Iguaçu (PR) and Palhoça (SC), in addition to blocking the assets and valuables of 19 individuals and legal entities.

The investigation was launched in September 2025 after a complaint indicated that residents of the Americanópolis neighborhood, in the south zone of São Paulo, had been receiving dozens of suspicious packages since 2024. According to the complaint, the packages hid large quantities of drugs in apparently legal merchandise.

Suspicions gained strength after the e-commerce platform identified shipments from a company with a strong odor of narcotics. Platform employees subjected the volumes to X-ray inspections and contacted the Federal Police. Experts confirmed the presence of hidden hashish in household appliances. In three seizures, around 12.8 kilos of the drug were found hidden in two electric ovens and a drinking fountain.

Based on the seizures made and the pattern identified in the orders, the Federal Police estimates that the group may have moved more than 514 kilos of marijuana and hashish in the three main centers investigated alone. According to investigators, the profit obtained by the scheme may have exceeded R$5 million. The suspicion is that the company under investigation has carried out more than 500 similar shipments to different regions of the country, which would increase the volume transported to almost three tons of drugs and movement of more than R$30 million.