When the First Capital Command (Primeiro Comando da Capital – PCC) took over the brightly-colored hillside favelas in São Paulo, Brazil’s most powerful gang also brought the criminal underworld under ...
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Brazil's PCC prison gang is becoming a global cocaine powerhouse, with reach into Europe and the US
A gang born in Brazil's brutal prison system is no longer just a domestic security threat. The Primeiro Comando da Capital, or PCC, has evolved into a sprawling transnational criminal organization ...
A spate of arrests targeting politicians with gang links in the Brazilian state of São Paulo illustrates the ongoing evolution of the country’s largest criminal network. In a series of raids on April ...
Bolivian police detained a man they name as a senior PCC member, wanted on three Brazilian sentences, in Santa Cruz and ordered his expulsion.
The Trump Administration opened a new front in its battle against FTOs on May 28, 2026 when the U.S. Department of State designated Brazilian criminal groups Comando Vermelho (“CV”) and Primeiro ...
Brazil’s Federal Police indicted 13 executives from funds, brokerages and fintechs as it closed Operação Quasar, a probe into ...
On May 28, 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the U.S. Department of State designated Comando Vermelho (CV) and Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), Brazil’s two largest and most ...
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Some of the suspects arrested for setting fire to sugarcane fields in Sao Paulo state told police they are linked to an organized crime gang and were retaliating for anti-crime ...
Brazil’s Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) is expanding its reach into Chile. The group, also known in English, as the First Capital Command is reportedly consolidating its expansion into Chile. This ...
In the passenger seat of the speeding squad car, Anselmo Cruz adjusted his bulletproof vest. It was just before midnight on Nov. 30, 2020, and the first call for reinforcements had gone out 10 minutes ...
President Donald Trump meeting with Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of Brazil's jailed ex-president, in the Oval Office, May 26, 2026 [Photo: @FlavioBolsonaro] On Thursday, May 28, the US State ...
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