Police recover part of Vasco’s stolen million-pound equipment haul | OneFootball

Vasco da Gama suffered a major logistical and financial scare off the pitch this past Wednesday (25). An official shipment containing exactly 200 boxes of the Rio club’s sports equipment was intercepted and stolen by criminals while in transit on the Linha Amarela expressway. The brazen road crime triggered major alarm behind the scenes at the club, as initial financial estimates pointed to a huge loss valued at around R$ 900,000.

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Criminal action and the supplier’s statement

The official logistics schedule provided for the large delivery of clothing items to be made directly to the SAF headquarters and the Moacyr Barbosa Training Center, facilities located in the Southwest Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro. However, the materials never reached their final destination at the scheduled time. Nike, the club’s current sportswear supplier and the party primarily responsible for managing the transport of the cargo, immediately informed Vasco’s board as soon as it confirmed the truck’s disappearance on the expressway.

Given the serious security situation reported by the supplier, the press office of the Civil Police promptly confirmed that its agents had begun an intensive search for those responsible for the robbery. Police teams were deployed to carry out several field operations with the primary objective of locating the valuable products and identifying the perpetrators of the criminal act that disrupted the logistics of the Giant of the Hill.

Vasco sports equipment was intercepted by thieves – Photo: Matheus Lima/Vasco

Recovery and the progress of the investigation

The swift and efficient mobilization of the state’s security authorities yielded positive results as early as this Thursday (26). The Civil Police managed to locate and recover a good portion of Vasco’s sports equipment that had been stolen the day before. The operation was carried out by officers from the Cargo Theft and Robbery Unit (DRFC), who acted quickly to secure the recovery of the merchandise, whose total value for the 200 boxes was re-estimated by authorities at around R$ 950,000.

Although the specialized teams were highly successful in recovering a significant share of the official sports items, the investigation remains ongoing and under the strictest confidentiality. Rio’s police continue working intensively on the streets to identify everyone involved in the armed robbery and locate the exact whereabouts of the remaining products that have not yet been returned to the assets of the São Januário club.

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