Hitman linked to Marielle Franco's murder killed by police

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Hitman linked to Marielle Franco's murder killed by police

Some suspect Adriano da Nóbrega was ‘key piece’ in discovering who ordered Franco’s killing

Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro and Sam Cowie in São Paulo
Sun 9 Feb 2020 20.52 GMT
First published on Sun 9 Feb 2020 20.04 GMT

Friends and relatives of the murdered Brazilian politician Marielle Franco are demanding answers after Adriano da Nóbrega – a notorious hitman, whose gang of contract killers is suspected of involvement in her assassination – was gunned down by police in the north-east of the country.

Nóbrega, an ex-special forces police captain, also had close links to the family of the far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro. Nóbrega was killed by police on Sunday in Bahia state where he had been on the run.

“Who gained from the death of ex-special forces captain Adriano Nóbrega,” tweeted Franco’s widow, Monica Benicio.

Franco’s leftist PSOL party said Nóbrega was a “key piece” in discovering who ordered Franco’s killing and called for a full investigation. “Witness elimination? Another attempt at obstruction of justice? Who ordered our companion killed? We demand answers,” tweeted Sâmia Bonfim, a PSOL congresswoman.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/09/hitman-with-links-to-marielle-francos-killed-by-police

[Judi Lynn]

1. They've known who led the assassination since right after they gunned down Marielle & her driver.

So the man everyone knew had done it, who had direct connections to Flavio Bolsonaro is suddenly murdered by the cops. What a huge suprise, right? Of course not.

His wife and her mother both worked for Flavio Bolsonaro, the pResident's son who was just cleared last week of money laundering. This stuff all starts sounding like the same people, in the US or in Brazil, or Russia, you name it. Absolutely evil.

From the O.P.:

Nóbrega’s wife, Danielle Costa, and mother, Raimunda Magalhães, were both employed in Flávio Bolsonaro’s office. Prosecutors described them as “‘ghost employees’… who transferred resources back to the operator Fabrício Queiroz.” Nóbrega “was also benefited by some of the resources,” prosecutors said in court documents seen by the Guardian.

In December a Rio court authorised searches of properties – including the chocolate shop. But this month, a separate investigation by federal police concluded there was no evidence of money laundering in Flávio Bolsonaro’s property deals.

As a state deputy, the president’s son was instrumental in Nóbrega being given a medal by the assembly while he was imprisoned under suspicion of homicide. Nóbrega was later cleared.