U.S.-sanctioned Victory Trading sent R$1 million to influencer Buzeira in one day, police report says

A police money-laundering report in the Corinthians-VaideBet case says Victory Trading made two transfers totaling R$1 million to Buzeira Digital Ltda. on 1 April 2024, then sent another R$300,000 on 22 April. For PSPs and acquirers, the interesting part is not the influencer angle; it is the payment trail linking a sanctioned-linked company, a football sponsorship probe, and entities that keep showing up in separate investigations.

1. According to the Civil Police report, Victory Trading made two transfers to Buzeira Digital Ltda. on 1 April 2024: R$490,000 and R$510,000. Three weeks later, on 22 April 2024, it sent another R$300,000 to the same company.
2. The report says those transfers came shortly after Victory Trading sent R$200,000 to UJ Football Talent on 28 March 2024. That company has been mentioned in other police investigations and in the plea bargain testimony of Antonio Vinicius Gritzbach, who linked it to alleged PCC figures.
3. Investigators flagged the sequence because the allegedly diverted funds from the Corinthians-VaideBet sponsorship contract had moved through companies that later appeared in the same financial flow. In other words, the report is mapping a chain of transfers, not treating each payment as an isolated event.
4. Buzeira is not being investigated in the Corinthians case. The report says his name appears only in the financial analysis of the transfers. The inquiry itself focuses on Corinthians executives, intermediaries, and financial operators, including Victor Henrique de Oliveira Shimada, a partner in Victory Trading.
5. Separate from that case, Buzeira has been charged by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in another proceeding tied to Operação Narco Bet. The MPF says he is part of a criminal organization investigated for money laundering, capital flight, illegal betting operations, and concealment of assets through companies, cryptocurrencies, and international transactions.

Victory Trading belongs to Victor Henrique de Oliveira Shimada, one of two Brazilians sanctioned this Wednesday by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Treasury said Shimada led an international network that laundered more than US$30 million for the PCC, using cryptocurrencies to move drug proceeds back to Brazil. That is the sort of profile that makes banks, PSPs, and acquirers stop treating “just a trading company” as a comforting description.