Mozambique has announced the expulsion of a a Brazilian drug lord who has been on the run for two decades.
The Government said, Gilberto “Fuminho” Aparecido dos Santos was sent home on a Brazilian air force plane that left Maputo at 1.30am on Monday with dozens of police officers onboard. Brazil’s justice ministry said yesterday that Dos Santos was already in a federal prison in the country.
Dos Santos was arrested last week in an international sting operation that involved agents from Brazil, Mozambique and the US Drug Enforcement Administration.The Mozambican authorities decided on Friday to expel him for allegedly entering the country illegally but kept the decision secret until he had left.
He is an alleged leader of the First Capital Command (PCC), considered to be Brazil’s top criminal gang, which wields control over cocaine supply routes from Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.
Its leader, Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, is serving a sentence of more than 200 years in a maximum-security prison in the capital, Brasilia. Dos Santos is accused, among other things, of financing a plot to help Camacho escape.
In a report from theguardian.com, Mozambique’s interior ministry announced Dos Santos’s expulsion and said he was barred from the country for 10 years.
Authorities saied, he had arrived in Mozambique in March and was arrested at a luxury hotel in Maputo, along with two Nigerian nationals.
Police recovered a fake Brazilian passport, 100 grammes (3.5 ounces) of cannabis, 15 mobile phones and a car, as well as the cash equivalent of about $800 (£600) in Mozambican and South African currency.
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