The appointed head of the criminal gang in Amazonas, Clemilson dos Santos Farias, better known as “Tio Patiñas”, was in the news this Monday (13), after it was revealed that his wife was at least twice in the Ministry of Justice and Public Security this year .

Clemilson, known as Uncle Scrooge, was arrested in Pernambuco – Photo: Internet/Reproduction/ND

In March, Lucienne Barbosa Farias, also known as the “Amazonian drug lady,” took part in a meeting with Elias Vaz, the national secretary of legislative affairs, with whom she was going to discuss alleged abuses in the Brazilian prison system.

According to the SSP-AM (Secretariat of Public Security of the Amazon), the 45-year-old drug trafficker not only heads a criminal gang in the region, but is also involved in several murders in Manaus. In 2022, he was considered one of the state’s most wanted fugitives.

Uncle Scrooge was sentenced to 31 years and seven months in prison for drug trafficking, money laundering and creating a criminal organization at second instance in October this year, according to the court.

One of Tio Patinas’ arrests occurred in June 2018. He was found in a luxury apartment in Jaboatan dos Guararapes, in the capital region of Recife. The drug trafficker left Manaus by boat and headed to Pará, from where he traveled to Maranhão and then to Pernambuco.

Then Intelligence Minister Herbert López said that the property where he was arrested was purchased for about 500,000 reais. In the Northeast, Uncle Scrooge opened a van transport company and invested his drug money into a clothing store for his wife.

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In January 2022, the drug trafficker was released by the courts, which found the complaint to be unfounded due to insufficient evidence presented. However, ten months later the man was arrested again in the community of Braga Mendes in the north of Manaus.

Then the military police discovered more than 200 kg of marijuana, which was about to be delivered to Para, in the double bottom of a van and ammunition belonging to the criminal. Uncle Scrooge had outstanding arrest warrants for gang crime, drug trafficking and money laundering.