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- Vasco da Gama and Vila Nova footballers investigated for drug and arms trafficking in Brazil
- Vasco da Gama player investigated for arms and drug trafficking in Brazil
- Lieutenant-colonel arrested for providing security to company linked to PCC in São Paulo
- Vasco da Gama player investigated for drug trafficking, arms trafficking and money laundering
- Shooting in Muzema leaves four dead and 14 buses hijacked as barricades
- Imprisoned banker's messages expose relationship with Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes
- Secret Federal Police report links judge Alexandre de Moraes to banker arrested for corruption in Brazil
- USA issues travel alert for Brazil due to crime and kidnappings
- Group arrested for homicides and extortion after "spreading terror" in Bahia
- Federal Police act against illegal possession of firearms in Brazil
- São Paulo court suspends dismissal of federal deputy who forged kidnapping video
- Clandestine cemetery discovered in São Paulo interior following kidnapping report
- Judge Moraes seeks investigation against colleague who linked him to banker arrested for fraud in Brazil
- Couple arrested at Sinop airport attempting to flee after consortium fraud involving 50 victims
- Man wanted for double homicide in Picos (PI) arrested in Tietê, São Paulo
- Forensic report points to murder of São Paulo PM officer Gisele Santana
- Cigarette Smuggling Finances Organised Crime and Costs Brazil up to R$ 8.5 Billion Annually
- Autopsy report rules out suicide in death of PM Gisele Santana and points to murder in São Paulo
- Operation Linha Sombria arrests nine in drug delivery network in Feira de Santana
- Operation Illicitus: 26 mobile phones and drugs seized in Rio prison
- Supreme Court crisis: international press highlights Banco Master scandal and Moraes
- Operation A Tropa: global media covers search at Vasco player's home
- Federal Police arrest 11 in operation against frauds in civilian weapons registration in Rio de Janeiro
- Paraguayan detained in Brazil with 865 grammes of cocaine bound for Madrid
- Illegal mining and organised crime in the Amazon: deforestation advances together with crime, study shows
- Operation arrests eight suspects of drug trafficking and criminal court in Jundiaí (SP)
- Phone number links Vorcaro to Alexandre de Moraes: new evidence from Federal Police and CPMI
- Ex-brother-in-law of murdered lawyer in Campinas arrested with gloves similar to those used in crime
- Federal government and Rio de Janeiro form partnership against organised crime in strategic areas
- Former SP Treasury Director arrested for corruption received R$ 228,000 after suspension from duty
- Trial of lieutenant-colonel arrested in death of wife Gisele resumes on 14 September
- Banco Master scandal: Supreme Court Judge De Moraes implicated in Brazil
- PJ detains suspect in Lisbon for homicide committed in Brazil
- Fake police officer arrested after scam at petrol station in Cândido Mota (SP)
- Gospel singer stabbed to death at fishing lodge in Porto Ferreira; two suspects at large
- Confrontation with BOPE in São José de Ribamar leaves one dead and another arrested with two firearms
- Two suspects shot dead after police stop in Campinas (SP)
- Operation Giratina: PM sergeant and former Detran-BA officials arrested for vehicle registration fraud
- Police rescue woman chained by ex-partner in Brazil
- 38-year-old woman posed as 12-year-old girl for 14 months in Brazil
- Operation Moega: Federal Police combat international drug trafficking in Mato Grosso do Sul
- Tarcísio confirms submission of Wi-Fi Operation evidence to Federal Police regarding NGO linked to Bolsonaro film
- Police rescue six victims from criminal gang's 'crime tribunal' in Primavera do Leste (MT)
- Police sergeant tried for killing two young men in Pavuna after confusing hydraulic jack with gun
- PF launches two operations and investigates R$ 86m fraud against INSS in three states
- Man shot dead in gym in São José dos Campos; three detained in Rio de Janeiro
- 23-year-old man arrested for drug trafficking in Iporanga, SP
- Man confesses by telephone to shooting girlfriend to death in Almirante Tamandaré
- Tax auditor arrested red-handed for passive corruption in Sítio Novo do Tocantins
- Marcola, PCC leader, to be tried in 2027 for killing of police officer in Jundiaí
- Jaú Municipal Chamber has bank accounts compromised and suffers financial fraud
- Three men arrested on suspicion of homicide on Via Dutra in Itatiaia, Rio de Janeiro
- Man arrested for attempting to bribe councillor in São Paulo with R$ 200,000
- Federal Police investigate Banco Master over suspected fraud with court-ordered settlement transfers
- Gang stole cancer drugs and resold them to public hospitals in Brazil
- Police colonels named in investigation into money laundering for the PCC
- Mother and daughter arrested for stabbing in Miranda do Norte; father flees
- Brazilian police summon Senator Wagner for questioning over Master Bank bribery allegations
- Brazil and Italy discuss cooperation against PCC and Red Command in São Paulo
- PM captain killed in Belo Horizonte had serious facial injuries; husband sergeant arrested for femicide