PCC is considered the largest organized crime network in Brazil. ALEX SILVA/ESTADÃO CONTEÚDO 05/14/2006
O PCC (First Capital Command) According to a report by the European country’s SIS (Security Information Service), it has a thousand members in Portugal. The group is considered the largest organized crime network in Brazil and controls part of the large international cocaine trade from South America to the European market.
CNN de Portugal reported that the intelligence document was presented at two SISsponsored meetings where authorities warned of the presence of at least 20 PCC members in Portuguese prisons. The group controls the logistics of unloading, storing and distributing large shipments of cocaine from Portugal to other European countries by land.
According to the report, the PCC’s presence is predominant in Portugal, particularly on the southern bank of the Tagus, as Portugal is a key part of the trafficking route and the gateway for cocaine to Europe. The main destinations of the group’s large drug deliveries to Portugal are the ports of Sines and Lisbon.
The report also shows that the PCC’s increasing presence in Portugal has also led to an increase in drug traffickingrelated violence in the country, with shootings, murders and attempted murders occurring in the Lisbon metropolitan area. The phenomenon could be explained by fights between members of the faction and rival groups trying to divert the drug.
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In addition to the PCC, there are other major factions in Europe that control the drug trade on the continent, such as the gang of Sérgio Roberto de Carvalho, the former major of the military police of Mato Grosso do Sul, one of the largest cocaine exporters from Brazil to Portugal He was arrested on June 21, 2022.
Carvalho, known in Europe as Major Carvalho or “Brazilian Escobar,” in reference to Colombian Pablo Escobar, led a drug trafficking gang responsible for shipping 45 tons of cocaine to Europe. In total, the gang led by the Brazilian moved the equivalent of R$2.25 billion.