Brazil’s most wanted criminal escaped in Paraguay
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Paraguayan and Brazilian authorities jointly conducted Operation Turf to dismantle an international drug trafficking network. The target managed to escape.
With the help of security guards at the Paraná Country Club complex in Paraguay, a suspected drug trafficker managed to escape from police during a raid. It cannot be ruled out that he is still in the country or even at the country club.
The Brazilian Federal Police, the National Anti-drug Secretariat (Senad), and the Paraguayan Public Prosecutor’s Office wanted to break up a criminal organization with two raids in Ciudad del Este.
This is composed of Brazilian nationals who were allegedly involved in cocaine trafficking, but in the end, the main suspect, Lindomar Reges Furtado, managed to escape.
The prosecutor Manuel Rojas informed that the security personnel of the Paraná Country Club and the intervention of a woman allowed the escape of the suspected drug trafficker, who is wanted by the Brazilian justice system.
All the people involved in the escape are now in custody.
Officials at the apartment complex denied the entourage quick access, while a relative of the fugitive blocked their way, making it easier for the man to escape.
Twenty security guards were arrested. The images also show how the complex’s guards detained the police and the prosecutor’s entourage while the suspected drug trafficker fled.
Prosecutors seized documents, weapons, and a large amount of financial data, evidence that will be used to continue the investigation.
BRAZIL’S MOST WANTED DRUG TRAFFICKER.
Who is the suspect who escaped? At least 67 cases are pending against Lindomar Reges Furtado in Brazil, but according to Interpol, there was no warrant for his arrest in Paraguay.
The suspect had two habeas corpus, which allowed him to move freely in Paraguay.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the man was the primary person responsible for shipping about 23 tons of cocaine that went to Europe. There were even links to other seizures in Paraguay.
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