Gilberto Aparecido
dos Santos known as Fuminho, has been on the run for over two decades according
to officials in Brazil.
A sting operation
carried out by Brazil’s Federal Police, United States drug officials and
Interpol, has led to the arrest of two Nigerians and a Brazilian drug baron.
Gilberto Aparecido
dos Santos known as Fuminho, has been on the run for over two decades according
to officials in Brazil.
Fuminho, who is one
of the alleged leaders of the Sao Paulo-based First Capital Command drug gang,
is accused of shipping tonnes of cocaine around the world, according to a report
by AFP.
"The prisoner
was considered the largest supplier of cocaine to a gang operating throughout
Brazil, as well as being responsible for sending tonnes of the drug to several
countries," a statement from the Brazilian police said.
The Brazilian drug
lord and his Nigerian accomplices were picked up at the Montebelo Indy, a
luxury hotel in Maputo the Mozambique capital, according to officials in the
country.
He landed in the
African country in mid-March, spokesperson for the country’s police, Leonardo
Simbine, revealed.
A fake Brazilian
passport, cannabis, more than a dozen mobile phones and a car were seized
during the operation.
The alleged drug
runner was also accused of allegedly financing a plot to free the PCC's leader,
Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, from prison.
Camacho, who is
known as Marcola, is serving a sentence of more than 200 years in a maximum-
prison in Brazil's capital, Brasilia.
The gang is seen as
the country's largest and most powerful drug ring.
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