"Her life is in your hands." "You know what this is, right?" "She has grenades tied to her neck." "We are very well armed and we are not playing." "If you don't pay, we are going to blow up your house with everybody in it, including your children and you." "We are going to get this money." "Bureau of Amazonian Development" "The Amazon is the poorest region in Brazil, where people live in total misery." "The idea was marvelous but then the criminal mind began to take over." "Instead of starting businesses to promote development this money was stolen." "Jader Barbalho was the most influential person inside SUDAM because SUDAM's headquarters are in the city of Belem, his political base and Jader is the most powerful politician there." "How much money was taken in total?" "We don't know how much." "More or less?" "We have no idea." "So much money." "I'm going to introduce you." "This is Rodrigao, my partner, police agent." "And this is "Big Marcos"" "another partner and police agent." "Here is another partner." "We're an assault team and work directly under the chief of the anti-kidnapping department." "We support all the other teams when they need to raid hideouts and other things." "Right now we have five kidnappings." "Three are solved and two are still active." "Here we have a kidnapping victim whose ransom is six million dollars." "This one here we solved." "They paid 25,200 reais ($10,000)." "Here they paid 80,000 reais ($40,000)." "And here we raided the hideout." "I've been in the kidnapping division for 3 1/2 years." "This is from a bullet." "This is from a bullet." "This is from a 12 gauge." "This is from a .45... and I have three or four others that I can't show." "How did they happen?" "During an exchange of fire." "This is normal?" "In this kind of work it's totally normal." "The "hideout" was very small." "The kidnappings, they're all serious." "But the ones that have psychological consequences..." "Remember the girl with the ears?" "There was a kid that was kidnapped." "They pinned the fingers down on a table." "They put a knife here, smashed down on the knife and cut three fingers off and sent them to the family." "It was filmed and everything." "They have so many ways to do these sorts of traumatic amputations." "You want me to talk about the "Frog Farm", right?" "I've said that the Centeno  Moreira project, known as the "Frog Farm", is only the tip of the iceberg." "I'll put the Frog Farm project in red." "Each green square represents a different SUDAM project." "There were farms that were built and began to produce but every single one was corrupt." "How many projects?" "Over four hundred." "This money is definitely not in Brazil." "Recovering it is the most difficult part." "I believe most of this money is in bank accounts outside of Brazil, mainly in tax havens." "My personal use - every day." "Another one of the same." "If you don't pay, she's dead." "But she won't be the only one." "We know the entire family and we've been following all of you." "Everyone's going to die." "Even though we got the wrong person we're not giving her back for free." "What we can give you back is her head." "If you want her dead, no problem." "We don't want to mess around, we just want money." "I have a bodyguard at my clinic at my country house, at my home." "My family was a very poor family." "It was very expensive to afford medical school." "When I was still in training" "So I changed the basic technique." "I started doing two-stage reconstructions." "Suppose I'm driving my car and I notice a pick-up has its tailgate lowered." "That's unusual..." "Why?" "There could be a gunman here, lying down." "He can place a shot anywhere." "Is this car going to perform the same as before?" "No, the braking distance increases in a bulletproof car." "I don't know if you have ever seen a bulletproof car disassembled but I'm going to show you some parts." "You can see the columns are reinforced." "This material is called ballistic steel." "Usually, the doors are made from this material." "This material is more flexible but it's much more expensive, it's used in bulletproof jackets." "We are going to learn how to escape safely." "It's better to be a living coward than a dead hero." "There's going to be a car chasing you with a gunman inside." "Even though you're in an armored car a bullet can still penetrate." "If you're not fast enough and he places three shots within an area you're considered dead." "OK?" "You've learned the maneuvers." "Now we have to put some things into practice..." "Now we start to get creative." "Do you remember the first time you killed someone?" "The first time?" "I remember... that I killed..." "Let me think..." "I must have been 16..." "I don't know if he died, but he disappeared." "But people I killed for sure were cops." "All human beings have a good side and a bad side." "And I know my bad side." "My dad came from Bahia." "He was a mechanic but he wasn't making enough money in Bahia." "So he moved here." "I was born and raised in the slum and I still live here today." "We went through very hard times." "So I started stealing at the market when I was nine years old." "Then I stole cars, motorcycles..." "Then I moved up to robbing banks." "And after a while, robbing banks wasn't worth it." "The money you make in one or two months robbing thirty or forty banks you can make three times as much with a kidnapping." "They want 3 million dollars in 100 and 50 dollar bills." "If the cops show up during the exchange they will not accept payment." "So some people told me," ""Listen there is this person who has a lot of money." ""If you get this guy, you can make some easy money."" "It works just like a company." "You need structure, employees." "It's the same thing." "You rent a car, house, clothes." "You buy furniture and move in and hire a couple to live in the house." "I studied and watched the victim for 65 days." "It was hard to get him, because he drove a bulletproof car and had bodyguards following in another car." "We stopped the traffic and our guys took out the bodyguards." "So the victim didn't know what to do." "Since his car was bulletproof he thought he could get away." "But he didn't realize we were armed with rifles." "He refused to get out." "So I shot the passenger seat and said he would be next." "Then he knew we were serious." "Armored car, rifle shot, there was no way out." "We hired a negotiator to fly to another state." "Because most kidnappers negotiating here in Sao Paulo are caught by the police." "One mistake is fatal." "I requested access to the Frog Farm's bank account." "We discovered that people had set up a false accounting system." "All of SUDAM's projects were investigated." "The testimony we gathered showed nothing functioned without bribery" "and checks made to pay bribes were deposited in the Frog Farm's account." "We asked for 3 million dollars." "We mailed pictures to his family of a rifle pointed to his head." "For the love of God, do exactly what they are asking." "Forget money, forget everything." "The money didn't come." "Everything is fine here." "You don't have to worry." "I will be out soon but tell the cops to get out of this case." "So please pay them quickly, OK Mom?" "I love you." "So we got the pliers and pulled off one of his nails." "It came off whole, with the cartilage." "We kept negotiating and nothing happened." "At that point, what happened?" "We cut off a piece of his ear." "And we sent it to his family." "Either you pay with money or with your life." "Do you ever think about what you do?" "No, I don't really think about it." "I spend my time planning robberies to get more money." "Or else we don't survive." "This is happening because you aren't listening to me." "Next time I'm sending his finger." "It's a joke, nothing more than a joke." "This was just a circus show a planned attack on my public image." "Thank God there's still a judicial power able to overturn these absurdities." "If I want to be governor of Para again, I will be!" "What is motivating this fight, Senator?" "If I want to be a Senator of the country" "I will be a Senator again!" "I'm embarrassed that we have politicians that have stolen so much public money to make themselves rich while people remain in extreme poverty and yet, they keep electing them." "Hey dad." "Where are you exactly?" "Five to ten minutes." "Our signal reaches all of these points." "Here's the celebrity you have been waiting for." "Can I know what this is about?" "Can you talk about your role in the development of the Amazon?" "There is a misconception that the Amazon is just a big empty jungle." "But there are over 20 million people who live in the Amazon who deserve the opportunity to work a life with dignity and a future." "So in my political life I can only celebrate that I have always earned the appreciation of the people of Para." "Why didn't SUDAM work?" "I think that first of all it was easier to say that some corruption scandal happened involving local politicians than to investigate." "In reality, it was a huge smoke screen." "You will certainly find people who approve of me and you will find others who disapprove of my leadership." "Public figures all over the world risk being involved in scandal." "I might have made many mistakes as well but it's up to the people to judge what I've done and so far they have judged in my favor." "I read that you had a frog farm." "I thought it was very strange." "No." "For that I would need more time to talk with you because this is... no." "You either steal with a gun or a pen." "Look, how do politicians steal?" "With a pen." "In Brazil, our politicians never look out for the poor." "They only see the rich." "They never go to the northeast or come here in the slums." "The people you kidnap with are from the North?" "I am the only one born in Sao Paulo." "The rest are all from the Northeast." "I would say 80%/% of the people who live in this slum are from the Northeast." "They come here looking for work." "A better life." "And they are happy here because what they have here they never had back home." "I am a politician for them here." "They come to me for anything they need." "I use money from robberies to pay for the families' needs." "If people need medicine, I buy it for them." "If they need propane, I will give it to them." "We are building a sewage system, we are paving the streets." "I protect them and they protect me." "Look, Brazil is an incredible country." "It's harder for a foreigner to understand what's going on here." "If SUDAM had worked, if it had actually subsidized projects today we would have a rich, self-sufficient Amazon." "It would have promoted equality, the distribution of wealth and a more fair Brazil." "The opposite of fear is not courage." "The opposite of fear is faith, is conviction, is the expectation that a dream becomes reality." "Do you have children?" "I have ten kids." "Right now I have nine." "My wife is pregnant with the tenth." "So there is one more coming." "And we can't stop, right?" "It's the future of Brazil." "Maybe one of my kids will become president and fix this country."