Bolivia captures and expels a high boss of the Brazilian narco

Marcos Roberto de Almeida, aka Tutaa senior head of the Brazilian poster first command in the capital (PCC), fell in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, while trying to obtain a false identity document. The Bolivian authorities decided to expel him to his country of origin and transferred him to the border to deliver it to the Brazilian authorities. Almeida will begin to purge the sentence to 12 years for organized crime and money laundering that had avoided fleeing to the Andean country.

Tuta was considered the main head of the powerful PCC who was released. On Friday he presented himself at an identification service office within a shopping center in Santa Cruz de la Sierra and tried to process a document with the name of Maycon Gonçalves da Silva. The officials discovered him for the fingerprints and asked the police personnel present there to stop him, what they did without finding any resistance on their part. They transferred to De Almeida to a temporary cell in the barracks of the Special Force to Fight Crime. This Sunday was taken to the border and climbed to a plane that Brazil had sent to repatriate it.

It is believed that the Bolivian authorities had already been informed by their Brazilian colleagues of the presence of the criminal chief in Bolivia. That is why there were mechanisms to quickly identify it if it tried to mislead the Bolivian identification system, something that Brazilian drug traffickers have done in the past, not only in that nation, but in others like Paraguay.

The capture mobilized the main positions of the Federal Police of Brazil. The general director of the Corporation, Andrei Rodrigues, offered a press conference on Saturday in which he communicated the arrest of Tuta in Bolivia and reported that a ship was heading to Santa Cruz de la Sierra to bring it back.

Police reports say that from Almeida directed from Bolivia the operations of the PCC since 2020, when arrived in Santa Cruz by means not yet established. The first command of the capital is the largest and most dangerous Brazilian criminal organization. The authorities consider it responsible for drug and weapons traffic, laundering of resources and other serious crimes. Their main bosses are imprisoned, but they continue to direct the operations from the prisons where they are held.

The PCC began to show its strength in February 2001, when it launched simultaneous riots in 19 Brazilian prisons. Since then, the criminal band has increased their power and influence. It is present in all Brazilian states and has been stretching its international tentacles to countries such as Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Paraguay. In the latter he is responsible for several acts of violence, outside and within the prisons.

Some unofficial versions suggest that Tuta had been “exiled” by force to Bolivia by the same criminal organization. This would have been a punishment for having ordered, without authorization, the homicide of two senior commanders of the PCC.

The capture was held by Eduardo del Castillo, the former Bolivian Government Minister (Security). When this occurred, Del Castillo had just resigned from the position he held throughout the management of President Luis Arce to become the presidential candidate of the official Movement to Socialism (MAS) in the August elections. Such was proclaimed after the decline of the candidacy made by Arce, since its popularity was affected by the economic crisis that the country is experiencing.

The one will not bet to compete in the economic field. On the other hand, it is committed to modifying the narrative based on Del Castillo, who has been responsible for the police in recent years and has had a dynamic and efficient management. This has not been exempt from controversies, as important opponent leaders such as former President Jeanine Añez and the governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, accused of participating in the overthrow of Evo Morales in 2019 have been arrested. He accuses him of Estupro. The former 37 -year -old minister will be accompanied by a little -known peasant leader, Milan Berna.