Tag: First Capital Command (PCC)

• Thursday, April 25th 2024 - 09:37 UTC

  Four Paraguayan prison inmates dead in rival gang clash

  

  Clashes between inmates belonging to the autochthonous Rotela Clan and Brazil's First Capital Command (PCC) left four of them dead and three others wounded Wednesday at the Regional Penitentiary in Pedro Juan Caballero, in the Paraguayan department of Amambay. A team of the National Police's Special Operations Group (GEO) and the riot squad were deployed to restore normalcy.

• Wednesday, March 13th 2024 - 09:08 UTC

  Drug trafficking gangs: Brazil's PCC operating in Chile

  

  Following a confession from a Chilean prison inmate, it was determined that São Paulo's notorious First Capital Command (PCC) had expanded its operations, it was reported in Santiago. In addition, raids in correctional facilities in Brazil detected communications further corroborated the news since proof of communications between the two countries was detected.

• Monday, November 27th 2023 - 08:07 UTC

  Brazilian drug gang goes global, The Economist reports

  

  According to an article in The Economist last week, Brazil's largest drug gang now has links throughout Europe. The First Capital Command (PCC), a gang officially born after a deadly football match between prison inmates in São Paulo in August 1993, has grown to some 40,000 life members and another 60,000 “contractors,” which would make it one of the world's largest criminal groups.

• Wednesday, August 7th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Brazilian police in major operation against the country's most powerful gang

  

  Brazilian police on Tuesday carried out a major operation against the First Capital Command (PCC) gang, in the latest attempt to try to hobble the country’s most powerful and sophisticated organized crime group.