The Federal Police on Thursday carried out search warrants in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo against former board members and core shareholders of Americanas, the retail giant whose roughly BRL 25 billion accounting hole, exposed in January 2023, pushed it into bankruptcy protection with BRL 43 billion in debt. A Rio court froze up to BRL 54 billion in assets, the figure police now attach to the fraud.
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