Police believe Ruben da Silva Villar ordered the murders of the UK reporter and the Brazilian Indigenous expert. The alleged drug lord has been in police custody since December, but his identity was difficult to pin down as he carried three sets of identity papers.
Police said the case over the murders of UK journalist Dom Phillips, 57, and Bruno Pereira, a 41-year-old Indigenous activist, was "90 percent" wrapped up and "practically closed."
Police in Brazil have strong evidence that an alleged drug trafficker ordered the murders of a British journalist and an Indigenous activist in the Amazon last June, a police chief said on Monday.
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