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Behind bars as if in a luxury hotel: drug boss even had a key
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 04 - 06 - 2008

A Brazilian drug boss lived behind bars as
if he were in a luxury hotel, continuing to handle his business
from jail, and even having a copy of the cell key, Brazilian media
reported Wednesday, according to dpa.
Luciano de Oliveira, the head of the Lemos de Brito prison in the
north-eastern city of Salvador, in the state of Bahia, was reportedly
sacked in connection with the case. However, he continued to justify
his own actions.
"The police knew of these alleviations of life in prison, which
were even approved by justice officials," Brito told television on
Wednesday.
During a raid Monday on the cell occupied by drug boss Genilson
Lino da Silva, the authorities found some 170,000 dollars under the
mattress of a double bed. They also seized two guns, cocaine and
marijuana, as well as six cellphones.
The drug boss, 35, is suspected of having led from jail a huge
criminal gang, which dealt in drugs, held up banks and hired their
services to kill and kidnap people.
In the framework of the operation, 26 people suspected of being
part of the gang have been arrested in recent days.
In the meantime, the state government announced the transfer of Da
Silva to a maximum security facility outside Bahia.
The fact that a drug boss enjoyed privileges in prison is not new
in Brazil.
"We knew that he lived comfortably, that he enjoyed concessions
and that he could walk around freely as if he were in an amusement
park. We did not know, however, that we would find so much money in
his possession," one police spokesman said.
The wives of "normal" prisoners demonstrated Tuesday before the
prison gates against the "two-tier society" inside the walls and
demanded better conditions for their husbands.
Brazil has some 500 jails, most of which are old and filled far
beyond their official capacity. Mutinies, sometimes lethal; escape
attempts, drug dealing and mistreatment of inmates by poorly-paid
personnel happen frequently.


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