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One of Brazil’s biggest drug traffickers leaves prison

Drug trafficker Celso Luiz Rodrigues, known as Celsinho da Vila Vintém and considered one of the most dangerous drug traffickers in Brazil in the 1990s, left prison on Wednesday on a court order after 20 years in prison.

Celsinho de Vila Vintém, one of the founders of the criminal organization "Amigos dos Amigos," whose mafia controlled drug trafficking in several favelas of Rio de Janeiro, will stand trial in the only case still pending against him.

The drug trafficker had been in prison since 2002, although he had first served time in jail in 1994 and had already . . .

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