Latin American Drug dealer Beira-Mar's lawyers arrested

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Monday, November 15, 2004

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Two lawyers of accused drug dealer Luiz Fernando da Costa (also known as Fernando Beira-Mar) were arrested Sunday November 14 in a restaurant located at Rio de Janeiro city in Brazil. They have been accused of bribing Brazilian federal police officers.

Luiz Fernando da Costa, known as Fernando Beira-Mar or Fernandinho Beira-Mar, is one of the biggest drug dealers of Latin America according to police. Beira-Mar was arrested by the Colombian army at April 20-21, 2001, in a FARC camp located at a forest near Colombia and Venezuela and then transferred to Brazil where he is been in prison until now.

According to officers the lawyers had offered R$200,000 (US$71,658.9) to police officers asking them to release Marcos José Monteiro Carneiro, another man accused of being a drug dealer.

Sources

• Agência Estado "Advogados de Beira-Mar são presos em flagrante". November 14, 2004 (Source link broken) ((Portuguese))
• Reuters "Exército colombiano captura Fernandinho Beira-Mar". Agência Folha, April 21, 2004 ((Portuguese))
  

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