Documents revealed the names of the many policemen, politicians, judges, public servants, and other prominent people who were profiting from his illegal activities.

After his death in April 1997, the heirs to his fortune began fighting each other over the inheritance, and this led to the murder of his son, Paulo de Andrade, in October 1998.

His father, Eusébio de Andrade e Silva, invested in cattle raising and founded a transport company.

He studied in the traditional school Colégio Pedro II, but frequently skipped classes to go to the beaches of the neighborhood of Flamengo.

[4][5] Castor inherited the jogo do bicho office of his grandmother and father and with his uncles transformed it to an illicit gambling empire – taking over more and more pontos (points-of-sale) where the lottery dealers collect money and keep record of the bets.

Ex-president João Figueiredo one day broke the protocol, departing from a group of authorities who surrounded him to personally greet the bicheiro.

[5] He managed a metal-working business that over the years had produced war material for the Brazilian armed forces, and he owned gasoline stations and a used car agency.

[2] Taking advantage of the attention of the media and public opinion during the Carnival of 1993, Castor gave a 5-minute speech angrily condemning the persecution of bicheiros in a full Sambadrome.

[12] Three months later, in May 1993, judge Denise Frossard convicted Castor and 13 other major bicheiros (among them Capitão Guimarães, Luizinho Drummond, Antonio Petrus Kalil, alias Turcão, and Anísio Abraão David) to six years of prison for criminal association.

[13] However, in the same year Castro obtained a habeas corpus and was released[14] and by December 1996 the rest of the bicheiros were all back on the streets, granted parole or clemency.

Among them, former president Fernando Collor de Mello, Rio governor Nilo Batista, São Paulo mayor Paulo Maluf, Rio mayor Cesar Maia, seven entrepreneurs, three judges, 12 congressmen and seven assemblymen, 25 police commissioners and 100 police officers.

[25] He was sent to Polinter prison, along with fellow bicheiros Capitão Guimarães, José Petrus, alias Zinho, and Fernando Iggnácio, Castor's son-in-law.

There were "strong evidences that the bicheiros made renovations and improvements in the internal part of the jail, such as the installation of new floor coverings, azulejo-tiles and sanitary ware.

"[26] Because of heart problems, he was put on house arrest to spend his conviction in his luxurious apartment in the Avenida Atlântica, the coastal road running alongside the beach of Copacabana.

[29] During the Carnival of 1998, the samba school Caprichosos de Pilares started their parade with a minute of silence to honor him.

[33][34][35] The violent dispute over the proceeds of Castor's illicit heritage appears to have ended when Iggnácio was executed on 10 November 2020 in Recreio dos Bandeirantes, in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro.

[36][37] In March 2021, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Rio de Janeiro denounced Rogério Andrade as the mastermind behind the murder of Iggnácio.