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Monday, October 1, 2007
Volume:
23
Issue:
10
402
Abstract:
On August 7, 2007, Brazilian authorities arrested Colombian Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia, 44, at a luxury apartment in Aldeia de Serra in the state of São Paulo based on a U.S. extradition warrant. The arrest was part of a multi-country law enforcement operation in which Brazilian law enforcement cooperated with authorities from Argentina, Uruguay and Spain. “Operation Farrapos,” as it was called, included 17 arrest warrants and 28 search warrants to break an international organization of drug trafficking and money laundering… [more]