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A Brazilian businessman, with ties to 1 of the country's astir almighty transgression groups, has been changeable dormant astatine Guarulhos Airport successful Sao Paolo.
Antônio Vinicius Gritzbach had precocious entered into a plea bargain with section prosecutors to supply accusation astir Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) - oregon First Capital Command.
He received decease threats from the pack arsenic a result, section media reports.
Three others were injured successful the attack, with footage online showing the aftermath. Police said officers had been deployed to the airdrome and surrounding area.
The infinitesimal 2 hooded men exited a car holding sub-machine guns and began firing extracurricular the airdrome terminal was caught connected information camera.
Gritzbach, a erstwhile subordinate of the PCC, dropped his container and tried to tally distant - but helium was changeable galore times and died astatine the scene.
A cryptocurrency expert, Gritzbach had been successful the process of telling officials however helium helped the pack to launder millions of dollars.
Reports successful Brazilian media suggest helium was erstwhile considered a cardinal subordinate successful the gang's operation.
As portion of his plea deal, Gritzbach had promised to assistance investigators find different members and manus implicit documents.
In exchange, Sao Paolo prosecutors are said to person offered Gritzbach a judicial pardon and a simplification of his condemnation for wealth laundering.
The PCC was formed successful the aboriginal 1990s and has gone connected to go 1 of Brazil's astir feared cause gangs. Its members, however, are not confined to Latin America.
Last year, a study by information services successful Portugal unsocial suggested the radical had 1,000 associates successful the European country's capital, Lisbon.
Sao Paolo's organised transgression taskforce estimated successful 2023 that PCC makes astir $1bn (£773,000) from planetary cocaine trafficking.
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