Brazil expels almost all illegal gold miners from Yanomami territory, its largest Indigenous reservation, and will remove miners from six more reserves this year, a senior official says
"We still have some pockets of miners who are holding out by hiding in some areas," says Humberto Freire of police's new environmental crimes division.
Police are setting up new Amazon bases and seeking international cooperation on law enforcement in the region, including the development of radio-isotope technology to prove the illegal origin of seized gold, Humberto Freire told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday. The territory had been invaded by thousands of gold miners threatening communities with firearms, spreading malaria, polluting rivers and scaring off wild game, which led to malnutrition and hundreds of deaths.
The police did not focus on arresting miners, Freire said, instead seizing or blocking $13 million of resources belonging to those accused of financing the illegal miners, while dismantling a prostitution network that took underage girls to the mining camps.Junior Hekurari, head of the local Indigenous health council, estimated that 85 percent of the gold miners had left or been forced out of the reservation the size of Portugal, which extends along Brazil's northern border with Venezuela.
One proposal aimed at cracking down on laundered gold would require electronic tax receipts for the buying and selling of the precious metal.
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