MP calls for arrest of members of organization involved in lawyer's death in Mato Grosso

The appeal is signed by prosecutors Samuel Frungilo, head of the 21st Criminal Prosecutor's Office of Cuiabá, Vinícius Gahyva Martins, of the 1st Criminal Prosecutor's Office, and Élide Manzini de Campos, of the 2nd Criminal Prosecutor's Office. According to the Public Ministry's complaint, investigations identified a structured criminal organization, allegedly led by Etevaldo Luiz Caçadini de Vargas. The group was reportedly hired by Aníbal Manoel Laurindo and Elenice Ballarotti Laurindo to execute Roberto Zampieri due to a property dispute involving a farm valued at around R$100 million. Nine people were reported.

Although they are not accused of direct participation in the homicide, Peterson Venites Komel Júnior, Salézia Maria Pereira de Oliveira and Mario Jorge Bucater are accused of being part of the criminal organization. According to the MPMT, Peterson was involved in acquiring weapons, monitoring targets and recruiting members. Salézia and Mario Bucater would have provided financial support to the group, with the aim of ensuring the silence of the perpetrators and making it difficult to identify those who ordered the crime.

In the appeal, the Public Prosecutor's Office maintained that the legal requirements for the decree of preventive detention are present, especially given the need to guarantee public order and preserve criminal investigation. "There are sufficient grounds for decreeing preventive detention, anchored in the need to protect public order and the convenience of criminal investigation. Preventive detention, therefore, is necessary and proportionate, as the conditions of admissibility, requirements and grounds for the extreme measure are present", highlights an excerpt from the piece.

For prosecutors, there are elements that demonstrate the concrete participation of the three accused in the operational dynamics of the criminal organization. "We are not dealing with peripheral members of a common criminal association. The records reveal that the defendants are part of a highly structured criminal organization, with a division of tasks and commanded by an agent with military training, focused, among other purposes, on committing murders to order", stated the members of the Public Ministry in the appeal.

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