Alleged Brazilian gang leader arrested in Bolivia: police

Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian federal police on Saturday announced the arrest in Bolivia of a man suspected of being a leader of one of Brazil s biggest o...

Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian federal police on Saturday announced the arrest in Bolivia of a man suspected of being a leader of one of Brazil's biggest organized crime groups.

A federal police source, speaking on grounds of anonymity, told AFP the man was Marcos Roberto de Almeida, who is known as "Tuta."

The suspect was the subject of a so-called Interpol red notice, effectively an international arrest warrant issued only for serious crimes.

His arrest, for using a false document in the eastern city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, came in an operation involving both a special Bolivian anti-crime unit and the Brazilian federal police, the police said in a statement.

"He was identified as one of the principal actors in an international money-laundering network linked to a criminal organization," the statement added.