The infiltration of organized crime into corporate and state structures

This article analyzes the dogmatic and operational evolution of criminal organizations in Brazil, highlighting their transition from mere armed territorial dominance to a complex financial and institutional engineering. The main objective is to demonstrate how organized crime currently acts as a corporate holding, infiltrating the State and the formal economy. Using the deductive method alongside bibliographic and documentary research, the study investigates the instrumentalization of Law No. 14,133/2021 (New Bidding Law), emphasizing the fraud in the "lowest price" judgment criterion as a vector for laundering illicit capital under the guise of feasibility. Concurrently, it examines asset shielding in the private sector through massive cash flows, using recent police operations involving the entertainment industry (Operation Narco Fluxo) and the use of corporate proxies as case studies. Finally, it addresses the phenomenon of narco-politics, illustrated by the 2026 indictments within the Rio de Janeiro legislative scenario, exposing state apparatus capture for the obstruction of justice. The article concludes that financial asphyxiation and the integration between police intelligence and administrative control bodies are indispensable prerequisites for neutralizing this new criminal typology.