Brazilian Police Arrest Government Officials Allegedly Linked to Illegal Logging in Amazon

摘要

Brazil's Federal Police May 21 arrested 64 people, including high-ranking governmental officials, for alleged involvement in an illegal timber-cutting ring in western Mato Grosso state.rnIt was the biggest bust of its kind in the second-most-deforested state in the Amazon, Franco Perazzoni, the head of the Federal Police's environmental crime unit in Mato Grosso state, told BNA May 26.