The new center will be used to detect money laundering, concealment of assets, illegal financial transactions and related crimes, further promoting the fight against corruption of individuals and legal entities.
The laboratory will contribute to investigations into undue payments, fraudulent contracts, fake and counterfeit invoices, overpricing or overbilling of products and services, circulation of money through tax havens, concealment of values ??and assets, employment of “front men” and “frontmen”, fraudulent or parallel accounting and money laundering mechanisms.
“Lottopar was created with the purpose of monitoring and regulating lottery operations, providing safe entertainment to the people of Paraná but, above all, with social return. This was the first resource allocated by the Government of Paraná to reinforce public security actions, especially the State Scientific Police,” highlighted the President of Lottopar, Daniel Romanowski.
According to the Secretary of Public Security, Hudson Leôncio Teixeira, the investment aims to reinforce the activities developed by the Civil and Scientific Police. “This allocation of resources will be specifically earmarked for the creation of the Integrated Data Processing and Analysis Center, which aims to support the Judicial Police in combating money laundering and organized crime,” he stated.
“The new Center is a structure that will integrate the Civil Police and the Scientific Police in a technological environment, which will intensify forensic investigations and crimes related to money laundering, organized crime and combating corruption,” explained the General Director of the Scientific Police of Paraná, Luiz Rodrigo Grochocki.
The CIPAD will also support reports from the State Division for Combating Corruption, the Fraud Police Station, the Cybercrime Combat Center, the State Narcotics Division and the Special Task Force for Combating Organized Crime (Gaeco), of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Paraná.
“This transfer of resources will help structure CIPAD, which will be a joint unit with the purpose of intensifying prevention and combating organized crime, money laundering and also combating corruption in the state of Paraná,” said PCPR’s Chief Delegate, Silvio Jacob Rockembach.
Lottopar, created in 2021, was the first state lottery in the country to regulate the operation of sports betting – currently five companies can operate in the state. It was also the first to grant concessions on B3, in the instant (“scratch”), forecasts and passive modalities.
According to the regulation, in addition to the concessions from the companies that operate the games, the State Government receives a percentage of the companies’ profits, which are used in housing policies, public safety and social actions. This is the first transfer of resources from Lottopar to public safety.
Source: GMB
