Fresh charges over murder of journalist Dom Phillips

Police successful Brazil person charged 2 much men implicit the execution of British writer Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous adept Bruno Pereira.

Phillips and Pereira were changeable dormant a twelvemonth agone arsenic they were returning by vessel from a reporting travel successful the Amazon.

Police person accused 1 of the suspects, Rubén Villar, of being the mastermind down the killing.

The man, who is besides known arsenic Côlombia, denied immoderate links to the execution erstwhile helium was archetypal arrested past year.

Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo reported connected Sunday that Rubén Villar and Jânio Freitas de Souza had been charged with execution and hiding the bodies of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips.

Bruno Pereira, 41, who had denounced amerciable sportfishing successful the region, was helping seasoned writer Dom Phillips, 57, with his probe for a publication connected conservation efforts successful the Amazon region.

The different fishy charged past week, Jânio Freitas de Souza, is suspected of having worked for Rubén Villar's transgression organisation. Both men are already successful custody.

Rubén Villar was archetypal arrested successful July 2022 for allegedly giving mendacious grounds to the police.

He shared a compartment with Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, an amerciable fisherman who constabulary accidental has since confessed to sidesplitting Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips.

According to constabulary documents seen by Fantástico reporters, constabulary person audio recordings from wrong the cell.

Police accidental that successful the recordings, Rubén Villar tin beryllium heard informing his compartment mate not to archer officers that it had been he, Rubén Villar, who had provided the ammunition utilized to termination the 2 men.

Prosecutors deliberation that telephone conversations held betwixt Rubén Villar and Jânio Freitas de Souza connected the time of the execution bespeak that the transgression was premeditated.

One of the past photographs taken of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips shows them talking to Jânio Freitas de Souza successful the riverside colony of São Rafael.

Pereira, who tried to person residents to halt amerciable hunting and fishing, was well-known successful these riverside communities and constabulary deliberation Rubén Villar's amerciable sportfishing racket was monitoring his activities.

Investigators fishy that connected 5 June 2022, Jânio Freitas de Souza called Rubén Villar to alert him that Pereira and Phillip were mounting disconnected by vessel from São Rafael.

Investigators judge that the 2 men were ambushed aboriginal that time by Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira and Jefferson da Silva Lima, who constabulary accidental person some admitted sidesplitting them.

Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira and Jefferson da Silva Lima are awaiting trial, arsenic is Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira's member Oseney, who denies immoderate links to the crime.

The remains of Phillips and Pereira were recovered 10 days aft their disappearance. They had been changeable dead, their bodies chopped up and buried successful the forest.

The transgression caused outrage successful Brazil and abroad, drafting attraction to the transgression practices and lawlessness successful distant areas specified arsenic the Javari Valley.

Commemorations to people the archetypal day since their disappearance are being held connected Monday.