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It started with CNN Portugalwith a report from the country’s security agency estimating “the presence of a thousand elements linked to the PCC”.
Then the ObserverSunday edition of the Guardian, published that the group “founded in a São Paulo prison and which the US now calls one of the most powerful in the world” has grown in the last five years and is said to be supplying “a good part of Europe’s cocaine”.
Finally, in Economist, “Gang goes global”, associating itself with groups such as the Italian ‘Ndrangheta. “CCP members are believed to be present in half a dozen European countries, including Britain,” he says. Below, with the statement “An increasingly longer career”, the graph of the jump in cocaine seizures in Europe:
The British magazine and newspaper hear from Presidente Prudente’s prosecutor for the group, Lincoln Gakiya, and other sources, such as InSight Crime, a Washington consultancy dedicated to crime in Latin America, and an expert linked to the University of Chicago, with a recent book on the PCC.
The Economist ends by saying that São Paulo’s Public Ministry has been investigating “mayors and councilors” and that “the final stage of the transition to a global mafia is penetration into politics.”
At the same time, the Associated Press reported that the São Paulo police “arrested a 24-year-old man and detained 33 other individuals who were transporting ingested drugs to Europe, according to the Secretary of Public Security.” The 33 were released after testimony.
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