The U.S. government is concerned about links between Brazil's largest drug gang and illegal gold mining in the Amazon rainforest, a U.S. Treasury official said on Wednesday following meetings with Brazilian law enforcement and civil society.
FILE PHOTO: Aerial view shows a wildcat gold miner, or garimpeiro, as he uses high-pressure jets of water to dislodge rock material at a wildcat mine, also known as garimpo, at a deforested area of Amazon rainforest near CrepurizaoSAO PAULO - The U.S. government is concerned about links between Brazil's largest drug gang and illegal gold mining in the Amazon rainforest, a U.S. Treasury official said on Wednesday following meetings with Brazilian law enforcement and civil society.
U.S. President Joe Biden imposed financial sanctions in December on the PCC, which was born in the prisons of Sao Paulo in the early 1990s. Now Brazil's most powerful criminal organization, the PCC is among drug gangs helping to flood Europe with cocaine. "We are focused on illegal gold mining ... because it can both generate resources for other illicit activities, given the value of gold, as well as providing a vehicle to launder the illicit resources from narco-trafficking," he told journalists.
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