Court orders arrest of Djidja Cardoso’s family and salon employees

Marcela Leiros – From Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS (AM) – The Amazonas Court of Justice (TJAM) has ordered the pre-trial detention of Cleusimar Cardoso and Ademar Farias, mother and brother, respectively, of the former owner of Boi Garantido, Dilemar Cardoso Carlos da Silva, Djidja Cardoso, as well as three employees of the beauty salon where Djidja was a partner, Belle Femme, namely Verônica da Costa Seixas, Marlisson Vasconcelos Dantas and Claudiele Santos da Silva.

The warrant was issued on Wednesday 29th by the TJAM’s criminal duty center, to which CENARIUM MAGAZINE had exclusive access. In addition to the arrest, the court ordered a search and seizure at the home of the former owner of Boi Garantido’s family.

The crimes listed in the arrest warrant are “rape”, “association for drug trafficking” and “selling drugs”. The document, however, does not specify the crimes for which each of those mentioned is being investigated, but Djidja’s brother is mentioned in the following criminal cases: Article 213 of Law 2.848, which refers to “rape”; Article 35(1) of Law 11.343, which refers to criminal association; and Article 35(1) of Law 11.343, which refers to drug trafficking. (See the document below)

The targets of the arrest warrant:

• Ademar Farias Cardoso Neto, Djidja Cardoso’s brother;
  
• Cleusimar Cardoso Rodrigues, Djidja Cardoso’s mother;
  
• Verônica da Costa Seixas, manager of the Belle Femme beauty salon;
  
• Marlisson Vasconcelos Dantas, hairdresser at the Belle Femme beauty salon;
  
• Claudiele Santos da Silva, make-up artist at Belle Femme beauty salon.
  

Article 213 of Law No. 2,848 specifically talks about “Forcing someone, by violence or serious threat, to have carnal intercourse or to perform or allow another libidinous act to be performed on them”. The penalty is six to ten years in prison.

Another crime mentioned is the one typified in Article 35 (1) of Law No. 11.343, which refers to criminal association for drug trafficking. “Associating two or more people for the purpose of practicing, repeatedly or not, any of the crimes provided for in arts. 33, caput and § 1, and 34 of this Law”. The penalty is three to ten years in prison and a fine of between R$ 700 and R$ 1,200.

The crime typified in Article 33 (1) is also charged. It refers to the production and commercialization of drug trafficking: “Import, export, send, prepare, produce, manufacture, acquire, sell, expose for sale, offer, have in storage, transport, bring with you, keep, prescribe, administer, deliver for consumption or supply drugs, even if free of charge, without authorization or in disagreement with legal or regulatory determination”. The penalty is five to 15 years in prison and a fine of between R$ 500 and R$1,500.

The arrest warrant also orders telephone operators to provide information about the targets of the warrants. After being remanded in custody, they must all be sent to the Amazonas prison system.

Death

Djidja Cardoso, 32, died on Tuesday, 28, at the home where she lived, in the Cidade Nova neighborhood, in the north of the Amazon capital. According to the police, the “cause of death has not yet been determined and can only be confirmed after the necroscopic examination”. A police team went to the businesswoman’s house and began the appropriate investigative procedures.

A preliminary report from the Medico-Legal Institute (IML), however, indicates that the cause of death is considered “undetermined”, caused by “depression of the central bulbar cardiorespiratory centers; congestion and cerebral edema”.

The businesswoman’s death brought to light family conflicts that, until then, had only been known about behind the scenes. On Facebook, businesswoman Cleomar Cardoso, Djidja Cardoso’s aunt, blamed her former niece’s mother, Cleusimar Cardoso, and employees of the Belle Femme beauty salon in Manaus for failing to provide help by preventing family members from hospitalizing the victim, who was chemically dependent. Djidja Cardoso was the owner of the salon in Manaus.

“Her [Djidja Cardoso’s] house in Cidade Nova became a ‘crackland’. Every time we tried to admit Djidja, we were stopped by her mother and the gang of some employees who are part of their scheme. Her mother always told us not to interfere in their lives and that she knew what she was doing, so our hands were tied. And it’s the same there, everyone doing drugs in her house”, he said.

Family members say that Djidja, her mother, Cleusimar, and her brother, Ademar Cardoso, as well as a sister-in-law of the businesswoman, used illicit substances in a kind of ritual, believing that they could transcend and connect with their true selves and the beyond, as well as cure themselves of illnesses and ailments. Drugs and medication were used to achieve a “catharsis”.

A police report (B.O) registered on April 24 this year at the 6th Integrated Police District (DIP) in Manaus shows that family members denounced the private imprisonment of the former Boi-Bumbá Garantido heroine. Djidja’s aunts named her brother Ademar Cardoso as her drug supplier.

“The informants report that Mrs. Dilemar Cardoso, alias Djidja, is in a regrettable state because she is a drug user and that no one allows her to receive visitors and she cannot leave the house since she is in a state of numbness, that the whole family are users and do not allow her to receive help,” reads an excerpt from the police report.

Reviewed by Gustavo Gilona
Translated by Bruno Sena