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00:00:01what was the goal there? The goal would be to take
00:00:04at least 1 billion, right? Why do you say at least 1
00:00:08billion? Because according to the
00:00:11information, it was around 4
00:00:14billion. I looked for the
00:00:18superintendent of security, who is our friend. I said, "Look, there's a
00:00:21suspicion that they're going to attack your
00:00:26It's a billion, imagine the stronghold that's there in Santo Amaro
00:00:29first." It felt a bit like an impossible
00:00:33thing. Imagine impossible.
00:00:35Impossible. It's an impregnable place.
00:00:39Nobody enters there. Then I said, "Okay, but that's the information." Obviously,
00:00:42we contested a bit
00:00:45the fact that it was
00:00:49It was very far from the house to a building built there in the 70s with a
00:00:52fantastic concrete reinforcement
00:00:54that was designed to have absurd
00:00:57security, right? Central bank level,
00:01:01let's say, to have a possibility of such a
00:01:05criminal attack. Two hours later, the
00:01:08guy calls me with a somewhat changed voice, and said, "Look,
00:01:12uh, there was a problem there in the construction and it's not that safe, it can
00:01:16happen, because during the construction when they were
00:01:20laying the foundations, since it used to be a swamp, it sank.
00:01:23So they had to fill it in to be able to
00:01:26in the foundation phase, so it ended up not having a... a
00:01:30basement and not a subfloor. Then they
00:01:33started to get worried. I said, "Look, let's do the following, I wanted you not to
00:01:37tell anyone, you have to trust us, he's monitoring, there won't be a
00:01:41robbery, because every major crime has some
00:01:44internal
00:01:45information.
00:01:49You can't commit a crime like this without privileged information from inside
00:01:53a gang, there's no way. You have to have someone from inside to
00:01:57pass on the privileged information to you.
00:02:00Organize, right? We say, the job, right? The robbery, you understand?
00:02:04The robbery, well, the robbery in this case, in this case, how was it
00:02:07done? Ah, in this case,
00:02:10there were about three employees there
00:02:13who collaborated. When the information comes
00:02:17to the police, they say, "The criminals will enter without
00:02:21triggering any alarm, nothing, no type of alarm." We say, "Look, but
00:02:24they have heat
00:02:28sensors." So when we talk... about the heat sensor,
00:02:31it fits. Again, suspicions point to
00:02:35Alex, a bank robber arrested in Praia
00:02:38Grande, released as bait by the police. We
00:02:42think this guy here is the plasma guy, he's the guy who has the
00:02:45expertise to cut the vault,
00:02:49to bypass the alarms. The
00:02:51police decide to install a camera to monitor the warehouse
00:02:55that Alex was frequenting in the north
00:02:57zone.
00:03:00We see movement of many men, we realized
00:03:03that it was a gathering of known criminals of ours.
00:03:07In a day or two, we were sure that it was their base.
00:03:11Why? Because two criminals we already knew
00:03:14from previous investigations, Alceu
00:03:18and Fernando, started to transit. Alceu was a different
00:03:21criminal. If he were there, something
00:03:25big would really happen. There
00:03:28are public records of
00:03:30him leading rebellions there in the context of the PCC attacks
00:03:33in 2006.
00:03:36In the criminal underworld, he was a very respected guy. In May
00:03:402006, the criminal faction issued an order to
00:03:43attack agents and public security units in São
00:03:46Paulo. The wave of violence caused deaths
00:03:50and paralyzed the city. Military
00:03:53police officers grouped together to protect themselves and did not carry out traditional
00:03:57patrols. According to the police intelligence service, the criminal
00:04:01organization summoned bandits for new attacks. Fernando
00:04:05is not a violent criminal. Drug trafficking, he's not armed drug
00:04:08trafficking, he's managerial drug trafficking, but
00:04:12he's the articulator, he's good at talking, and he's
00:04:16Alceu's trusted guy. And with the information from both, from Fernando
00:04:20and you know that here you can trust in and Alceu, we go back to our informant and show him,
00:04:23"Look," and he says, "100%." If this
00:04:25criminal who is responsible for the plasma is involved
00:04:31in crime, the chance of these two being the
00:04:34masterminds increases greatly. That is
00:04:36their base.
00:04:40The police monitor a warehouse in the north zone of São Paulo, but the
00:04:43bank chosen by the gang is 30 km away. The
00:04:47math doesn't add up, there's a missing piece in this
00:04:50puzzle, and that's exactly what the investigation needs to
00:04:54find.
00:05:00we start to see that these guys enter the
00:05:04warehouse in the afternoon, but they don't leave.
00:05:08While they are inside, one of our police officers
00:05:11noticed a detail: a van always entered, but he noticed
00:05:15what? That the van's suspension enters high and leaves
00:05:18low, so the van leaves flattened to the
00:05:21ground.
00:05:27you identify the base in the north zone of São Paulo, you knew that the van was leaving from there,
00:05:30the only way was to follow this van. There we decided that
00:05:34we would have to identify the place where this van
00:05:38entered. Then we remodeled
00:05:41the operation. In order to follow this displacement until
00:05:45the end, we came to the conclusion from the very first
00:05:48moment that it was moving along the marginal, first along the
00:05:51Tietê River marginal and then along the Pinheiros River marginal. So
00:05:55we managed to establish observation points
00:05:59on these two avenues, waiting for the moment when this
00:06:03van passed. When it came close, the team would
00:06:06already warn, the second team would already start moving and would
00:06:10already be waiting for it to pull up behind.
00:06:15But it was the most difficult thing to follow this van, the driver was
00:06:18very cunning, very quick, he
00:06:22was constantly braking, turning into
00:06:25streets to see if he wasn't being followed. So for us
00:06:28to be able to follow this van without being noticed,
00:06:32we had to do a reverse
00:06:34follow.
00:06:37So you followed through the rearview mirror, how did you do it? Exactly
00:06:41the classic follow? Everyone knows, everyone imagines,
00:06:44is to follow the car immediately in front of you, yes. In this case,
00:06:48no, we followed the car that was behind us. It was through the rearview mirror,
00:06:52we had to stay in the rearview mirror looking, hoping it would go our
00:06:55way. It was a very
00:06:59long job, it took more than three
00:07:02weeks.
00:07:04We ended up arriving at a certain street where this
00:07:08van entered and disappeared. We couldn't
00:07:12see... which house it was, because the
00:07:15houses were closed and it was a street that you couldn't
00:07:18enter. So we continued, we left a team
00:07:22on this street. One of our police officers took his
00:07:25pit bull, brought it from home, walked around with the pit bull, walking
00:07:29the pit bull, he sees him entering the house, calls the house, so it's from here
00:07:33that they will
00:07:33leave.
00:07:39Initially, the plan was to enter and
00:07:43stay in the house without anyone leaving. What was the work routine there?
00:07:46They went down at 9.
00:07:49Few people were digging, taking turns,
00:07:52right? Because you have to dig. There was nothing
00:07:56technological because they weren't digging and they were there pulling, helping to pull
00:07:59that dirt. Every 1 meter, they would put
00:08:03shoring, it was wood, iron
00:08:06base. One dug 2 meters, it's actually
00:08:10a mole's job, they are moles, they...
00:08:12like to steal from below,
00:08:16as they say, right? It's not something,
00:08:19uh, common. We are talking about a very specific type of
00:08:22crime, very rarely practiced.
00:08:26From the reports I've done all these years, discovering organized
00:08:29crime, I understood that this
00:08:32crime engineering started in the prisons here in São
00:08:35Paulo, you know? The prisoners tried to escape in any way
00:08:39and started digging tunnels. From
00:08:43a certain point in the prison to the outside
00:08:45area, that's where we learned.
00:08:48Who is a mole in the criminal world? A mole
00:08:52is the guy who has experience in digging, right? And underground,
00:08:55he has a sense of direction. If you want to dig a tunnel in prison, you
00:08:59use any type of tool like a shovel, right? A
00:09:02plate, a piece of plastic, it becomes
00:09:06a shovel for you to dig, right? And there, similar things were
00:09:09used, but gardening tools. How was the
00:09:13tunnel? It was very elaborate. We got there, we were even
00:09:16admiring sometimes the work, because
00:09:19no one had an academic background, right? To carry out such
00:09:23a job and it was very
00:09:26good. Certainly there were experienced people
00:09:29in the civil construction industry. One of these criminals
00:09:32was known for digging tunnels inside prisons, right? Yes,
00:09:36yes, there was one who had more experience digging, he was at the forefront
00:09:40and sometimes alternated. Because he was tired, another person had to finish,
00:09:44right? But he was the specialist in this,
00:09:48right? The police install a camera
00:09:51to watch the house too. We
00:09:55set up a small base in the attic, we get
00:09:58a big screen, we can split it in half, so we had eyes
00:10:02on both places. The guys started taking turns at night,
00:10:05so there was a WhatsApp group that said, "Hey,
00:10:09it's 2 o'clock, I'll call the next one and say, 'Hey,
00:10:13it's your turn,' and with the commitment not to sleep, we stayed
00:10:1724 hours monitoring, apprehensive, afraid that we would
00:10:21lose them and they would succeed in the robbery.
00:10:26Every morning, when the Bank of Brazil informed
00:10:29us that everything was okay in the vault, it was
00:10:33a certain relief, because from the first to the last
00:10:36day, we always worked against the clock and
00:10:40always worked with the hypothesis, however remote, that
00:10:43we could wake up in the morning with news from the press, "Look, the robbery
00:10:47happened."
00:10:51political repercussion this could have later, at least for our
00:10:54career. Right? "Oh, the guys robbed a billion, look who knew,
00:10:58those three delegates, those two
00:11:00investigators are involved, they knew." Then they'll come to us and say,
00:11:04"Why didn't you prevent it?" But
00:11:07the police still couldn't understand the plan of the
00:11:11thieves.
00:11:14the base of the Bank of Brazil, it was more than 600 m. The city
00:11:18engineer told us, "Nobody digs 600 m. To dig 600
00:11:21m," he said, "only if the subway team comes, otherwise they don't dig."
00:11:26What the police still didn't know was that the thieves
00:11:29didn't need to dig a tunnel of more than 600 m. The
00:11:33city hall had already done most of the
00:11:36work. This tunnel was built from the house to the
00:11:40stormwater drainage and then from the stormwater
00:11:43drainage to the vault. And this
00:11:47had a difficult issue for us, because you imagine
00:11:50that if the criminals were inside the tunnel, you close the
00:11:54tunnel entrance. They would have nowhere to go, but in this case, no,
00:11:57because in the stormwater drainage they could leave through any
00:12:01manhole, so they
00:12:04could simply walk through the tunnels and exit into the
00:12:07Pinheiros River, for example, which was the final destination of the
00:12:09tunnel. What we did? We put one of our police officers
00:12:13inside the water pipes there to see what it was like.
00:12:17He came out of there horrified, he said, "You can't go in," he said,
00:12:20"No way, it's dark, it's
00:12:24foul, there's no way to get through there." What was the
00:12:27feeling of being down there? In the first
00:12:30few days, it caused a certain panic, right? There were
00:12:32a lot of insects there,
00:12:35scorpions, rats. We
00:12:38wore appropriate clothing
00:12:41with rubber
00:12:43boots.
00:12:46How were the conditions there? The worst,
00:12:50right? The worst, because if it rains, everyone has to run.
00:12:53If the weather gets bad, someone had to be outside
00:12:57to warn, stop everything, put away the tools that had to be
00:13:01put away inside there, and when it rains, the drains
00:13:05fill up.
00:13:07There were times when you felt like getting out through the
00:13:11manhole. How did you manage to stay there for so long, three months?
00:13:14Everyone focused on the
00:13:17objective, right? So you ignored any type of
00:13:21risk or danger that we were running.
00:13:25According to the informant, the crime would happen on an extended
00:13:28holiday. The idea was to have
00:13:32finished on September 7th, and some friends
00:13:35had to go to Paraguay to buy
00:13:38some tools they were missing, some drills. We missed the
00:13:42window of the Independence holiday, it passed
00:13:45unnoticed. September 7th came and went. The next extended
00:13:49holiday was October 12th.
00:13:52The police are racing against time. The situation for the
00:13:55investigators worsens when the informant doesn't appear
00:13:59anymore. Our informant ended up being arrested by a Dake
00:14:03team. When he left the streets, what did we have? We had
00:14:07cameras, so we had eyes, but our ears were
00:14:11him. He was our ears, so he would listen and tell us. When we
00:14:14lose our ears, you're in
00:14:16the dark.
00:14:19The police contacted the administration of the financial
00:14:22complex to request a sweep of the vaults.
00:14:25I'll do the following: you conduct
00:14:29routine maintenance and go into the vaults to see if there's
00:14:32any vault with a sign of violation, because from what
00:14:36we're hearing from our investigation,
00:14:40everything is ready for the crime to happen. Sure enough, they arrived
00:14:43at a vault, and there was already a square on the floor already
00:14:47cut. It was under the money. The square. Then
00:14:50he even grabbed a bucket of
00:14:54water. He poured the water, it all drained down. The guy was in
00:14:57a panic. How far did you get? Oh,
00:15:01we got to the belly of the beast, the
00:15:04bank's belly. You
00:15:07got under the vault. We got
00:15:09under.
00:15:12We said, "Time's up, there's nothing else to do." For the police,
00:15:16sometimes it's better to let the criminal commit the crime because the penalty
00:15:19is much greater than for an attempted crime. But due to the
00:15:22risk of the amount of
00:15:25money, we said, "It won't happen, we'll catch them before. You can trust
00:15:28us."
00:15:30The police decide to act. The suspicion is that the
00:15:34gang is already under the vault. The robbery
00:15:37can happen at any moment. A big
00:15:40operation will begin that will also depend on a bit of
00:15:44luck.
00:15:48I sent Pedro with a smaller team to the
00:15:52South Zone to monitor the house, but the house had no movement,
00:15:55no one else entered the house for
00:15:57days.
00:16:01And you had a house, but you saw nothing. What anguish was it to see a house and not know
00:16:05that there was a tunnel until the day it broke? That was a... that was a bet, good
00:16:08question. I went with a much larger team with Wagner
00:16:12to the North Zone, to the warehouse. We knew that their
00:16:15meeting was a criminal association. What did we
00:16:19need? We needed the largest number of people inside
00:16:22to carry out the action.
00:16:25We monitored on Friday, there was no
00:16:28movement. On Saturday, there was no
00:16:32movement.
00:16:34On Sunday, there was no movement, and this with... with the bank vault
00:16:38cracked. We were seriously afraid
00:16:42that the investigation had gone down the drain. We'll stay until we
00:16:45catch them. Then on Monday, we spread out
00:16:48across the North Zone. Then
00:16:51soon after, two thieves arrived. Then we said, "Wow,
00:16:55it's starting to heat up." That's when I say investigation is not
00:16:59just team competence,
00:17:01legal knowledge, investigative knowledge, you also need
00:17:04luck. And then what happened
00:17:08that day? Thieves started arriving, soon after another one arrived,
00:17:11another one, another one. The gang had scheduled a meeting
00:17:14that day, which is why several members arrived at the
00:17:18same time. Then one thief started to arrive, then another
00:17:21thief, then another thief, then another thief. I said, "Let's start the
00:17:24operation." The helicopter leaves Campo de Marte,
00:17:28but arrives in 2 minutes, 1 and a half minutes, arrives over
00:17:32the warehouse. We
00:17:34invade, the door is blown open with a battering ram.
00:18:07They are
00:18:07handcuffed.
00:18:11At first I thought it was
00:18:15something else, a fight, I didn't even think it was
00:18:18the police, but soon after they already started to come in identifying themselves, so
00:18:22there was no doubt, right? The moment
00:18:25we raided the warehouse, when I entered
00:18:29with the personnel, there were 16 thieves. How many members in the
00:18:32gang? We were arrested in 16 that the police managed
00:18:36to catch, yes. Yes, the police caught
00:18:3916, but how many were there actually? Oh, there were
00:18:42a little more than that, maybe double, there were at least
00:18:4535, I think, in total. Then we start to see who's
00:18:49there, then we see, Alceu is there, Fernando is there, who is
00:18:53Alceu's right-hand man, Alex is there, who was the
00:18:56person who led us to that warehouse.
00:18:59They believed what was happening, they didn't know, it took a while for it to sink
00:19:02in. They just said, "No, we were gathered here to play
00:19:06soccer. We have." Then every Monday
00:19:10we would play soccer. But what did we have there?
00:19:1316 men gathered, mostly
00:19:17known criminals gathered in the North
00:19:20Zone and 50-60
00:19:24km away we have an empty
00:19:26house. The police need to connect the
00:19:30thieves arrested in the warehouse to the tunnel.
00:19:34Dr. Fábio says, "Come in, you can come in, we got them here." But
00:19:37he comes in and says, "Come in." Dr. Pedro calls back to say,
00:19:41"I found it." It takes about 10 minutes. We look and say,
00:19:45"Phew, it's not that." Imagine the shame, everyone
00:19:48knew, everyone knew, the superiors knew, even the
00:19:52politicians already knew. We had some difficulty getting in,
00:19:56the house was very well secured, it had been completely adapted, it was difficult
00:19:59to enter it. I had placed a team at the
00:20:03rear of the property, so there was no way for them to escape
00:20:07through the...
00:20:13We were apprehensive and the bandits were too. Just stay quiet
00:20:16everyone, nothing will happen to anyone. Okay, okay. Do you have a weapon? No,
00:20:20no weapon. And we go in with the expectation that as soon as we entered the house,
00:20:23the first thing that caught our attention was that it
00:20:27indeed had all the characteristics of a crime
00:20:30scene: clothes, no furniture, old mattresses,
00:20:33and a lot of food stocked.
00:20:37Dirt everywhere, dirt on the walls,
00:20:41and it immediately gave us the certainty that it was indeed the tunnel's
00:20:45location. Then, progressing tactically
00:20:48inside the property. Until we found the tunnel
00:20:51exposed. So much so that Fernando
00:20:55is a key point in the story, because at that moment he
00:20:58hears Dr. Pedro call Dr. Fábio, and Dr.
00:21:01Fábio says, "Found it!" Pedro probably says he found the tunnel on the
00:21:05other end of the line, and he says, "But the tunnel is
00:21:09big." When I say tunnel, Fernando immediately collapses
00:21:12right in front of me, he falls apart, then he says to
00:21:16me, "He said, 'Puts, you found it.'" We found it. First I get
00:21:19dirty. Then comes the denial, right? "No, we have
00:21:22nothing to do with it, this is a soccer club." Then as you
00:21:25show what we already had in terms of evidence, then they end up
00:21:29confessing informally, they end up talking. As I said, they said
00:21:33to the investigators, "Man, if you had looked for us before, we would have left
00:21:37a part for you." So they are like, they're not
00:21:40ashamed. We said, "No, but there was
00:21:44money for everyone, right?" Then even a part for
00:21:47you too. In a few hours, the Brazilian
00:21:51paper house was already news, the behind-the-scenes
00:21:55of an investigation that prevented what would be the biggest
00:21:59bank robbery in history. To enter, you have
00:22:02to bend down, and bend down a lot, very tight. This
00:22:05hoarding here above was used to
00:22:08support the earth so that it wouldn't fall
00:22:12on them. The police discovered that the
00:22:15gang was well organized, had prepared for this
00:22:18crime. They had what looked like a stockroom there,
00:22:22they had several clothes for them to use for digging, some rubber
00:22:26clothes that are impermeable, all
00:22:29new and stocked. There were
00:22:33gloves, several gloves,
00:22:35masks, protective glasses, there were
00:22:38both new ones and the ones they had used for the
00:22:42jobs that were drying.
00:22:45My boss gave the order to enter the tunnel and see how far
00:22:49it goes. And this was difficult
00:22:52for us. I'm 1.90 m tall, the tunnel is very tight. I
00:22:56managed to get to a certain point, I even
00:22:59took a photo for him and said, "Look boss, I can't go any further
00:23:03now, it's very tight."
00:23:06They went down to the house and made a tunnel
00:23:10line of 27 meters, then they managed to enter the stormwater
00:23:13drainage network, and from the stormwater drainage network they walked more than 600 m, if
00:23:17I'm not mistaken, it was 660 until they reached the exact
00:23:20point next to the Bank of Brazil. There they
00:23:23entered another tunnel, this tunnel was 37
00:23:27meters until it stopped exactly under one of the
00:23:29vaults.
00:23:33It formed a kind of solution in a "Z" shape,
00:23:37as soon as we reached the manhole that would give us the position
00:23:41of the base. Then a second hole was made, which would
00:23:45lead under the vault rooms.
00:23:48The last surprise of the status would be a way to
00:23:51enter the vault without being noticed.
00:23:55There, in these vaults, they have a seismic sensor
00:23:59system. Any type of excavation
00:24:02triggers an alarm within the Bank of Brazil's central office, and
00:24:05there they used something we've never seen, which
00:24:09expanded the concrete. The
00:24:12effects of the holes were the same as what is done in prison
00:24:16with a ratchet. Then, into this hole, you have to put the...
00:24:21expansive mass. Since the holes are made upside
00:24:24down, right? So you have to put it inside some little bags, like
00:24:28little condoms, some little chup-chup bags. You put it
00:24:31inside that hole, and then after a while, it will expand.
00:24:35I know the image, that's where it dissolves the concrete, it turns into
00:24:39sand, it crumbles. Then we
00:24:41discovered they had made a system like we
00:24:45see in movies, a system of mirroring images. So
00:24:49on the day they were going to rob, the
00:24:52central office in Brasília was always seeing the room
00:24:56full, without any movement, not what was happening
00:24:59instantly at that moment. It's what we always see in movies like Mission
00:25:03Impossible.
00:25:07After entering the bank vault without alerting the
00:25:10security, the robbers would need another
00:25:13solution, like getting so much money out of there
00:25:17before they were caught.
00:25:23This money was going to be done as follows: they had a small elevator they made
00:25:27electric that would lower the money to the
00:25:30stormwater gallery, these 600 m of the gallery
00:25:34would have this track, this track would have some carts that they would pull.
00:25:38We
00:25:40look and say, man, they were going to take the money with this
00:25:43here, they're going to create a kind of small
00:25:46railway inside the...
00:25:50to pull 600 m. Talking to one of them
00:25:53there, I don't remember who, he said what are you looking for, he said
00:25:57how are you going to make this cart move in there? Then he said it's by
00:26:00rope, he said rope? He tied the rope to the thing
00:26:03and pulled, it was a lot of money to take out,
00:26:07right? According to what we knew there, each million in
00:26:10large bills weighs 25 kg, so you calculate
00:26:14how many trips we would have to make.
00:26:17After taking the money through the tunnel, the gang already had a plan
00:26:21equally audacious, but
00:26:23possibly very violent. How would
00:26:27the escape
00:26:30boxes and put it in the truck. Then they would
00:26:33park the trucks in front of the house there, as if
00:26:36they were transporting something for a
00:26:40move, the trucks would leave. The informant had already
00:26:43told us: there's a place where there are several cars, each one has their car
00:26:47there, they will divide the money and each one will go their own way. This place was
00:26:51discovered, right? This member had a key with this address that led
00:26:55to these cars. We went to the warehouse and found seven cars, I think seven or eight cars
00:26:59there, all with products of crime, theft, robbery.
00:27:04What was the escape plan? Ah, we're going to leave here with 1 billion and whoever is on the
00:27:08street, if they see a police car, if they see, so there has to be
00:27:12someone to give support there, there's a heavily
00:27:15armed group to provide security for the
00:27:19money's route. Yes, there could be shooting, people could
00:27:22die. It was just a precaution, but you were
00:27:25willing to go to confrontation? Ah, if it happened it was inevitable,
00:27:29right? They would gather with armed apparatus. They would be in for
00:27:33all or nothing. Imagine this convoy crossing paths with a civil police
00:27:37or military police patrol, there would be deaths everywhere.
00:27:40Such a theft costs a lot,
00:27:43it costs, because afterwards when we discovered
00:27:47such things there, we went inside the tunnel, we saw the apparatus they
00:27:51had there, they had to maintain
00:27:53a house, there were several criminals working on this endeavor, they had
00:27:57to put in money to get in, it was like a
00:28:00pool, there was the installment.
00:28:02of each one, which was more or less 200 thousand reais, the part
00:28:06that each one gave to be able to participate
00:28:10in this crime, and some, like himself, paid
00:28:13quotas for other people to participate, those who didn't
00:28:16have all the money, right? So there were people richer
00:28:20than others in crime. What was the final bill? At least 50 million
00:28:24for each one who participated in the excavation? Yes, I think
00:28:28perhaps even more, perhaps
00:28:29more.
00:28:33Soon in Doc Investigation,
00:28:37we needed to subject those 16 prisoners
00:28:41to DNA collection, and the DNA sang beautifully.
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