According to the Brazilian government, Hungary can sovereignly decide which extradition request it will prioritize
Former major alongside the military police, during the trial in 2011 (Photo: Campo Grande News/Archive)
Sérgio Roberto de Carvalho, 65, arrested in Hungary last June and known as “Major Carvalho,” a former PMMS (Military Police Department of Mato Grosso do Sul) officer, is denied by Brazil, the United States and Belgium. After the arrest of the man known as “Brazilian Escobar” was announced, the three countries where he is responsible for crimes called for his extradition to the Hungarian judiciary. But Carvalho’s fate is still uncertain.
For the Campo Grande NewsThe Justice Ministry reported that the Brazilian government formalized the request to arrest the former major on July 18. It turns out that the Hugria court granted the three extradition requests on the 19th of this month. Now it has to be decided which country will extradite the prisoners. “The three requests were granted, but the Hungarian state has sovereignty to decide which of the requests should be given priority,” the note sent to the report said.
The decision to send Carvalho out of the country was taken by Hugria’s justice minister, Judit Varga. Recently, Interpol (International Criminal Police Organisation) alerted the security authorities of the European country to the possibility that “Major Carvalho” was planning an escape.
The Portuguese magazine Visão confirmed the information to the international police. According to the investigation, Carvalho would be ready “to offer a large sum of money to anyone willing to cooperate and participate in an escape plan.”
Simulations show a comparison between the photos by Sérgio Roberto de Carvalho and Paul Woulter. (Photo: Disclosure)
Carvalho was imprisoned in a prison in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, and for decades ran the cocaine trade that linked South America and Europe. The Mato Grosso do Sulborn son of cafeteria owners in Campo Grande has been named leader of a criminal organization that can export 45 tons of cocaine (equivalent to R$2.2 billion) compared to Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar.
To evade the police, Carvalho even created a second identity in Europe named Paul Wouter, who was also targeted by the police and “died”, according to the Covid19 death certificate presented at the time. According to Wouter’s defence, the “client’s” body had been cremated and therefore there were no conditions for a DNA analysis of the remains to be carried out to confirm the identity after the body was found to be in fact the former major .