The men accused of bringing cocaine cartels to Europe — The ‘Finger cutter’ and the ‘Brazilian Escobar’

A Belgian criminal organisation’s links with a Brazilian cocaine gang have been the focus of a major trial in Brussels, where smuggling links have been alleged between European players and the drug cartels of Latin AmericaIn the early ho…

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