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Published January 13, 2024, 6:35 p.m. ET
A Serbian man who was executed in front of his family in Brazil last week has now been identified as a contract killer wanted by Interpol for multiple contract killings.
“Investigations revealed that he was living here secretly and under a false Slovenian name,” the lead officer in the investigation, Luiz Ricardo Lara Dias Jr., told reporters on Friday.
Dias Jr. said that Interpol had been looking for the man for nearly a decade and that police believed his murder could be linked to his criminal past.
Local police this week identified the victim as Darko Geisler, 43, after consulting with the Slovenian consulate in São Paulo based on the passport found on the victim – only to learn that the passport did not belong to him, but to a Slovenian citizen, who lost it in 2017.
Reverse searches of Geisler's photos on the Internet helped police identify him as a Serbian contract killer wanted in Montenegro for multiple murders and possession of weapons and explosives, Jam Press reported. Montenegrin authorities confirmed that Geisler was a contract killer.
Police now believe Geisler lived in Brazil for nine years and kept his identity secret after fleeing Montenegro to Bosnia following the execution of a man at a prison gate on Christmas Day 2014.
A Serbian man named Darko Geisler, who was executed last week, has now been identified as a contract killer. Fox News
After settling in Brazil, Geisler met his future wife in 2015 or 2016 and moved to Santos. His wife claimed she had no idea of his true identity.
People close to the couple told local news agency Folha de S.Paulo that the truth about Geisler's past does not match the man they knew: Geisler took his son to school and, despite speaking, socialized among the other parents from the neighborhood of little Portuguese people.
CCTV footage showed Geisler's execution. Fox News
Another neighbor said Geisler often played with his son on the street and often visited the local bakery with his family. He came by every day to get cigarettes and told everyone that he worked as a carpenter.
He claimed his family received money from a company he owned in his “home country” of Slovenia.
Geisler met his end while he was with his family. CCTV footage showed Geisler with his wife and three-and-a-half-year-old son returning home and putting away their bicycles when a gunman ran across the street and shot Geisler at close range.
After settling in Brazil, Geisler met his future wife in 2015 or 2016 and moved to Santos. rparobe
The killer wore a mask and gloves and fled the scene in a black car without leaving any trace. His identity is still unknown. A neighbor who heard the gunshots and Geisler's wife's screams called military police and emergency medical services, and he was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
Brazilian police continue to search for Geisler's murderer. Authorities believe his criminal past may have played a role in his death and police in Brazil and Montenegro will work together to get to the bottom of the mystery.
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