Find out who Marcus Amim is, former secretary of the Civil Police and former president of Detran-RJ, arrested by the PF

The arrest was ordered by Minister Alexandre de Moraes, of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), in the investigation into connections between public agents and criminal groups operating in RJ.

Investigators discovered a network of gas stations in Greater Rio that handled R$7.6 billion in an alleged money laundering scheme, with the consent of politicians.

Graduated in Law from Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Amim joined the Civil Police in 2002. As a delegate, he commanded strategic units of the corporation, including the Narcotics Repression Police Station (DRE), the Specialized Police Station for Weapons, Ammunition and Explosives (Disarmament) and the 27th DP (Vicente de Carvalho).

In October of that year, he was appointed Secretary of Civil Police after a maneuver by the Legislative Assembly of Rio that modified article 16 of Complementary Law 204, the Organic Law of the Civil Police.

The change, proposed by the State Government and approved on the eve of the appointment, relaxed the criteria for command of the Civil Police by allowing delegates with less than 15 years of experience in the role to take over the Civil Police Secretariat. With the change, Marcus Amim, who at the time had been a delegate for 12 years, was able to head the corporation.

Amim remained in the position for around ten months, until he was replaced. Afterwards, he took over the coordination of the Security Department of the Legislative Assembly of Rio (Alerj). Before commanding the Civil Police and Detran-RJ, he became known for his appearances on TV programs and for his activities on social media.

Amim had already been the target of the 6th phase of Operation Unha e Carne, launched by the Federal Police on July 7th of this year. At the time, agents executed search and seizure warrants against him.

Since then, the delegate has become the target of investigations conducted by the Civil Police Internal Affairs. There hasn't been a decision yet.

In 2018, deputy Márcio Canella, also arrested at this stage of the operation, proposed granting the Tiradentes Medal, the Assembly's main honor, to delegate Amim. In the same year, the police officer was honored with the honor.