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From Robinho to 'Araraquara Hacker': Know which 'famous' are trapped in Tremembé
Published on September 26, 2025
The Tremembé Penitentiary Complex, officially called Penitentiary II Doctor José Augusto César Salgado, is known as the "Prison of the Famous" because of the history of detainees who have passed through the unit.Situated 130 km away from the state capital, the site gained national repercussion for receiving names such as Alexandre Nardoni, the brothers Cravinhos, Roger Abdelmassih, Mizael Bispo, Marcos Valério, among others.See below who is still in prison in the unit.
Fernando Sastre
Fernando Sastre de Andrade Filho deposes for video conferencing - Photo: Reproduction
Fernando Sastre de Andrade Filho, a Porsche businessman and driver, has been arrested at the unit since May last year, accused of generating a fatal accident in Sao Paulo on March 31, 2024. He is responsible for "common danger" homicide with eventual intent and serious personal injury.
Lindemberg Alves
Lindemberg Alves - Photo: Reproduction / TV Globo
Who is also "arrest of the famous" is Lindemberg Alves Fernandes, sentenced to 39 years in prison for murdering his girlfriend Eloá Pimentel in October 2008. Before killing the teenager, who at the time was 15 years old, he took her hostage for more than four days in an apartment in the city of Santo André.
Araraquara Hacker
Hacker Walter Delgatti, during a statement at the CPI of January 8 - Photo: Cristiano Mariz / Agency O Globo
Walter Delgatti Neto, known as the "Araraquara Hacker", gained national projection by invading accounts of the telegraph of attorneys of Operation Lava-Jato and then Judge Sergio Moro.He has been arrested in Tremembé since February, when he was transferred from the Araraquara Provisional Detention Center.Delgatti was sentenced to 8 years and 3 months in prison.
Shave
Former player Robinho-Photo: Douglas Magno / AFP
Arrested since March last year, former 41-year-old soccer player Robinho was sentenced in 2017 in Italy to a 9-year sentence for rape against a young Albanian, occurred in a nightclub in Milan in 2013. The former athlete denies the crime and says the relationship was consensual.
Rugai
Gil Grego Rugai is accused of killing his father, publicist Luiz Carlos Rugai, and his stepmother, Alessandra de Fátima Troitiño, in March 2004 - Photo: Diogo Moreira / Agency O Globo