Former government official's firm linked drug trafficker from PCC to cannabis business
The consultancy firm created by Eurico Castro Alves after leaving Infarmed introduced a Brazilian businessman, accused of being in the top ranks of the PCC faction and convicted of drug trafficking, to a medicinal cannabis producer.
Former government official's firm linked drug trafficker from PCC to cannabis business
The consultancy firm established by Eurico Castro Alves after stepping down from the directorship of Infarmed put in contact with a medicinal cannabis producer an investor who was subsequently revealed to be a Brazilian drug trafficker linked to the Primeiro Comando da Capital. The information was disclosed by the weekly publication Público. Source: Correio da Manhã
Wise Healthcare Solutions, owned by the former Secretary of State for Health, was contracted by Sync Nature, which aimed to build a cannabidiol manufacturing unit in the municipality of Oliveira do Bairro. The consultancy's mission was to identify financiers to make the venture viable.
Among the interested parties presented was Wdealer, an import and export company belonging to Cláudio Rocha Júnior, a Brazilian national. Conversations began in the first month of 2023. At that time, the businessman had already been accused by the judicial authorities of his country of being part of the top hierarchy of the criminal organisation PCC.
Later, in mid-2023, a judge at Matosinhos Court imposed a sentence of five years' imprisonment on him for crimes related to the sale of illicit substances. The firm managed by him would later be subject to a declaration of insolvency twelve months later.
The episode raises questions about the selection criteria and background verification procedures used by the advisory firm of the former member of the executive in identifying candidates for investors in the therapeutic cannabis sector.
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