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Q&A: Brazil’s Pioneering Fight Against Gang Money Laundering

By Cecilia Tornaghi

If you want to fight organized crime, defund it.

This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on transnational organized crime | Ler em português | Leer en español “Organized crime groups are for-profit business enterprises,” Elvis Secco said “To combat them, we have to defund them” Before being appointed to lead the organized crime division at Brazil’s Federal Police in 2019, Secco gained national recognition for dismantling a money-laundering unit of Brazil’s largest criminal organization, the Primeiro Comando da Capital, or PCC While authorities were busy looking for drugs, the PCC had been...

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