Article 617BB Man linked to killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira arrested over fake ID

Man linked to killing of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira arrested over fake ID

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Andrew Downie
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Rubens Villar Coelho produced a fake Brazilian ID' to investigating officer and had other aliases in Peru and Colombia

Police have arrested a man linked to the killing of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira but officials in the Amazonian city of Manaus warned his detention has not yet produced any evidence he is implicated in the 5 June murders.

Media in the area around Brazil's border with Peru and Colombia where the couple went missing named Rubens Villar Coelho as a possible suspect in the case that brought global attention to the remote Amazonian region last month.

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