One of the most sought after criminals in the country, Átila Carlai da Luz, who was part of the group that stole the Central Bank in Fortaleza in 2005, was arrested on Friday (8) by the Rio de Janeiro Civil Police. The gang drilled a tunnel for three months until he reached the Central Bank’s underground, where they took $ 165 million.
Monitoring for months by the intelligence sector of the Delegated Services Defense Police Station, Attila was located in a high standard apartment in the prime zone of the city of São Paulo.
Investigations indicate that the criminal was connected with criminal factions operating in the state, responsible for a large portfolio of illicit activities, ranging from drug trafficking and weapons to bank fraud, cargo theft, vehicle cloning and corruption in public services.
To escape the security forces, Attila lived with false identity, with active CPF, regular CNH and company registered in Paraná. He also had operational bonds with cronies involved in the country’s largest bank robbery, as well as integrating interstate criminal networks.
The fraud was unmasked by the police through biometric analysis, data crossing in federal systems and technical validation by the Pacheco Civil Police Felix Identification Institute. In Rio de Janeiro, Attila had already been convicted twice by ATM fraud. He even responds to a third case for the same crime.
In Sao Paulo, the robber accumulates several passages, such as the conviction of 32 years in prison for international drug trafficking, linked to a millionaire scheme to send bags with cocaine, using Guarulhos International Airport as a point of sending narcotics to Europe.
The loads were dispatched through a criminal network of corrupted employees and collaborators, ensuring that the drug arrived in the city of Lisbon, in Portugal, where it was received by cronies and resold in the European market for values that exponentially multiplied the gang’s profit.
