One of the world’s largest weapon merchants João Filipe Barbieri detained in Brazil in the morning of April 21. About it reports O Globo.
The criminal detained the POLINTER service agents – a special division of the Brazilian police. Barbieri hid in the mother’s house in the city of Niterranea of the Moscow Region Rio. It is noted that he came to the region to force weapons buyers to return debts and re-establish deliveries. In the afternoon, the police arrested the partner Barbieri – João Viktor Rosa.
The detainees were hidden from the authorities for several months. On November 18, 2020, Barbieri with a partner escaped from prison to Bangu, fake permission to liberation. Fraud was revealed only in four months, at the same time they were detained by lawyers. In the fact of the illegal liberation of criminals, a criminal case was instituted.
In 2017, Barbier was sentenced to 27 years in prison for illegal selling weapons. According to the investigation of the federal police, his gang introduced thousands of smuggled rifles in Brazil. They were hidden in the heaters for pools.
João – the adoptive son of Federico Barbier, the leader of a major criminal grouping. In criminal circles, he is called “lord of weapons” for the huge scale of smuggling. Now Federico is in prison in the USA.