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Brazil’s Red Command Turned Turf Control Into Ride-Hailing Monopoly

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Brazil’s Red Command Turned Turf Control Into Ride-Hailing Monopoly Brazil’s Red Command gang created its own Uber-style ride-hailing app, showing how Brazilian gangs are combining real-world territorial control and increasing technological sophistication to generate new revenue streams. The Red Command (Comando Vermelho – CV) managed its app, called Rotax Mobili, together with an allied criminal group, Amigos dos Amigos. The app’s slogan promis…

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Three persons were arrested in a collapsed operation in Rio de Janeiro to prevent confrontations by territorial disputes in the communities of Serrinha, Juramento, Campinho and Fubá, in the north of the city. Made by specialized teams of the Civil Police, with the support of the Special Operations Battalion (Bope) of the Military Police, the operation is part of the Operation Content. A gun and drugs were seized. As a security measure, 20 munici…

·Quadra, Brazil
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Police of the DRE (Delegation of Repression to Entorpecerants of the Capital), with the support of units of the DGPE (Special Police Department) and of the Bope (Special Operations Battalion) perform, on Wednesday (26), an operation in communities in the North of Rio de Janeiro. The action, baptized by “Operation Contention”, aims to break the territorial dispute between criminal groups operating in the region. According to research, territories…

·Brazil
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The Civil and Military Police deflated, on Wednesday, an operation in communities in the North Rio area to contain the effort to expand the Red Command (CV) to the West Capital Zone. Teams of the Delegation of Repression to Entorpecentes of the Capital (DRE-Cap), with the support of other units of the Department-General of Specialized Police (DGPE) and the Special Operations Battalion (Bope) are located in the Serinha, the Jurament, the Fubá and…

·Brazil
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The civil and military belts perform, in this having a (26), but a stage of the operation the Content which aims to free the expansion of the Red Command in Rio de Janeiro. Read more (08/26/2025)

·São Paulo, Brazil
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Folha de S.Paulo broke the news in São Paulo, Brazil on Tuesday, August 26, 2025.
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