The coronavirus pandemic is causing tectonic shifts in Latin America’s organized crime landscape. Weak state institutions provide criminal groups an opportunity to fill voids of socioeconomic and ...

An investigation into a multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme has triggered reforms in Brazil's digital banking sector.

Brazil has carried out the biggest crackdown on organised crime in its history. Authorities exposed a multibillion-dollar money laundering scheme linked to the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC). This ...

The First Capital Command (Primeiro Comando da Capital – PCC) is Brazil’s biggest and best-organized criminal network. It was born in São Paulo in the 1990s and has forged a bloody path to dominance ...

The emergence of modern Brazilian criminal organisations can be traced back to the boom in incarceration and prison overcrowding in the 1990s. During this period, important changes were forged within ...

A Brazilian businessman, with ties to one of the country's most powerful criminal groups, has been shot dead at Guarulhos Airport in São Paulo. Antônio Vinicius Gritzbach had recently entered into a ...

Paraguayan Army soldiers are seen next to an army tank near of the border prison, where prisoners, housed in a gallery for members of Brazil’s First Capital Command (PCC) gang, broke out of the jail ...

Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), a Brazilian prison gang, staged a series of attacks in May that paralyzed the city of Sao Paulo. Subsequent waves of violence have raised concerns about the ...

The Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC), which means the First Capital Command, is a Brazilian gang that operates from within the São Paulo state penitentiary system by means of cell phones and a ...

At least 18 inmates died in clashes in two separate penitentiaries in Brazil's Amazon region and more than three dozen escaped after a third prison riot.