A Brazilian Air Force jet with dozens of police officers come to fetch Gilberto Aparecido Dos Santos and took him home to face justice.

Brazil’s largest cocaine smuggler, known by as Fuminho, is a leader of the São Paulo-based First Capital Command gang that  moved drugs all over the planet.

Among the charges he faces back in Brazil is plotting to free the head of the gang, Marcos Camacho,  who is serving a 200 year sentence in a maximum security prison.

Gilbert Aparecido Dos Santos was arrested last week in a luxury Maputo Hotel with two Nigerian citizens. A quantity of drugs was seized.

His capture is part of an international sting operation.

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Police running the international sting operation are looking for cronies. They say he is part of big São Paulo gang and does not operate alone.

Forty nine year old Gilberto Aparecido do Santos was nabbed at the luxury Monetebelo Indy hotel in Maputo.

Two Nigerian citizens were seized with him.

Dos Santos, known as Fuminho, is part of the game known as the First Capital Community of PCC.

They move tons of cocaine all over the world.

He arrived in Mozambique a month ago

Police seized a fake Brazilian passport, a quantity of dagga, several mobile phones and a car during the operation.

Dos Santos is accused of financing a plot to free a fellow gang member serving a 200-year term in a maximum security prison in Brazil

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A source in the oil rich African country says Teodorin Obiang Nguema, who is the son of the president, is seeking medical treatment in Brazil.

Teodorin Obiang Nguema was handed a three year suspended sentence for money laundering by a French court last year.

It was said then he regards Equatorial Guinea’s central bank as his private ATM.

Brazilian authorities and those in Eguatorial Guinea have not commented on the seizure at Viracopos airport near São Paulo.

Nguema, who traveling with with a 10-man delegation,  has diplomatic immunity but the money and watches were taken by authorities because he was not on an official visit to Brazil.

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