Brazil police say gang leader likely ordered killing of British journalist

Brazil’s federal police said they have a “strong conviction” a gang leader known as “Colombia” ordered the brutal murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, killed in the Amazon rainforest last June.
The gang leader, Ruben Dario da Silva Villar, is already in police detention after being charged along with three other people for double homicide and concealment of corpses.
Villar allegedly planned the killings because Pereira, a former head of isolated and recently contacted tribes at indigenous affairs agency Funai, was carrying out inspections of illegal fishing operations, causing major losses to Villar’s criminal group, the police said in a statement.