The Federal Justice decreed, this Saturday (9), the preventive detention of four investigated for the death of the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian indigenist Bruno Pereira, in Vale do Javari.
One of the prisoners is Rubens Villar Coelho, known as “Colombia”, who was arrested by the Federal Police this Friday (8). Coelho was already investigated by the Federal Police and was arrested with false documents.
In addition to them, the trio Amarildo da Costa Oliveira, known as “Pelado”, his brother Oseney da Costa Oliveira, known as “Dos Santo” and Jefferson da Silva Lima, known as “Pelado da Dinha”, also had their preventive detention ordered.
The trio is responsible for the murder of Dom and Bruno.
“All prisoners will be transferred to Manaus in due course, where they will remain at the disposal of the police authorities and the Federal Justice,” the Federal Police said in a statement.
“Colombia” Prison
The Federal Police (PF) confirmed, this Friday (8), to the CNN the arrest of Rubens Villar Coelho, known as “Colombia”, who would have taken part in the murders in Vale do Javari, in Amazonas.
Coelho was already investigated by the Federal Police and was arrested with false documents. According to delegate Eduardo Alexandre Fontes, the suspect’s real identity is still under investigation, since he has different names in documents from different countries.
“We are finding out that this person known as ‘Colombia’ works with fishing, according to him, he buys fish. We are investigating whether or not there is illegal fishing and if there is only a commercial relationship with other traders or if he participates in and finances illegal fishing in the region”, said the delegate in an interview with the press.
The PF also claims that the suspect works with fishing in the Javari region and would be the boss of Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, one of the perpetrators of the shooting, who had already been arrested.
Amazonas judge sends case to Federal Court
Judge Jacinta Silva dos Santos, head of the District of Atalaia do Norte, a municipality in the interior of Amazonas, determined, last Thursday (7), that the case concerning the murders of indigenist Bruno Pereira and journalist Dom Philips, which took place on June 5 this year. The case is under judicial secrecy.
Pereira and Phillips were shot dead and their bodies burned and buried during an expedition in a region that is the scene of recurring conflicts in the Amazon: drug trafficking, wood theft and the advance of mining.
The information was confirmed by the Court of Justice of Amazonas (TJ-AM). In the decision, the magistrate noted that the report of the investigations carried out by the Civil and Federal Police, and which appears in the procedural records, concludes that the motivation of the crime would be directly related to indigenous rights, whose analysis of the legal matter is the responsibility of the Federal Court. .
In addition, the Public Prosecutor’s Office also asked the Federal Court to decline jurisdiction. “This information was not previously included in the records, which therefore allowed the State Court to act in this process”, explained the judge.
The TJ-AM also reported that, in the late afternoon of last Wednesday (6), there was a request from the police authorities who are in charge of the investigations for the Justice to convert the temporary detention of three investigated into preventive detention.
the case
British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenist Bruno Pereira Araújo were considered missing as of June 5, in the Vale do Javari region, an area of indigenous lands in Amazonas.
After the case gained repercussion, several public figures, environmentalists, activists, artists and opposition politicians went public to demand urgent measures for the search for the duo.
One of the main suspects in the disappearance, Amarildo Oliveira da Costa, known as Pelado, confessed to having participated in the duo’s murder more than a week later .
He and his brother, Oseney da Costa de Oliveira, known as “Dos Santos”, are arrested on suspicion of having participated in the crime. Jeferson da Silva Lima, known as “Pelado da Dinha”, was arrested on suspicion of having participated in the concealment of the corpses. Another five people were identified as involved in the concealment of the bodies of Bruno and Dom.
Rubens Villar Coelho, a man of Peruvian nationality, known as Colombia, would be head of Pelado and was arrested this Friday, July 8.
Amarildo then indicated where he would have buried the bodies of the duo, and the police confirmed the existence of human remains at the site. Examinations confirmed that the bodies were those of Dom de Bruno.
Source: CNN Brasil
