 According to Maurício Lopes Lima, a former member of (OBAN) -- a para-legal structure which included the intelligence and torture services of the Armed Forces—Rousseff was the primary leader of VAR Palmares, and he received reports calling her "one of the brains" of the revolution.Police commissioner Newton Fernandes, who investigated the clandestine organization in São Paulo and profiled dozens of their members, said that Rousseff was one of the principal masterminds.The attorney who prosecuted the organization called her "Joan of Arc of subversion", saying that she led strikes and advised bank robberies.