Rubens Villar Coelho ‘produced a fake Brazilian ID’ to investigating officer and had other aliases in Peru and Colombia
British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira
Coelho, who is known by the nickname Colombia, handed himself in to police on Thursday and offered to cooperate to clear his name. Phillips and Pereira were travelling in a boat on the River Itaquaí when they were ambushed and shot dead by at least two men in early June.Phillips was working on a book about sustainable development called How to Save the Amazon and Pereira, who had close contacts with local Indigenous groups, was helping him with interviews.
Fontes said Coelho bought fish from local fishermen and they were investigating what links, if any, he had to the three men arrested for the murders. The numbers were particularly worrying in the state of Amazonas. In the past, much of the worst deforestation came at the eastern edges of the forest.
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