Jorge Pontes

Nature Warriors (eBook, ePUB)

The History of the Fight Against Environmental Crime in Brazil
Übersetzer: Doyle, Anthony

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On his first nocturnal mission in 1989, searching river boats for an expected drug haul, Federal Police agent Jorge Pontes heard something he would never forget: "-It's nothing, just turtles!" Over a hundred freshwater turtles, one bigger than the other, packed into the cargo hold of a fishing boat. For that team of agents, so focused on its mission to find and seize a few dozen kilos of cocaine paste, a hull-load of smuggled turtles meant "nothing". But for Jorge Pontes, that scene not only raised a thousand questions about the remit of the Federal Police, but was the spark that would lead, some years later, to his formal submission of a proposal for the creation of a unit specializing in crimes against the nation's flora and fauna. This proposal gave rise to the Division for the Repression of Crimes Against the Environment and Natural Heritage (DMAPH), signed into law on December 13, 2001. In Nature Warriors, Jorge Pontes recounts some crucial episodes that led to the division's creation and some of the mega-operations launched during his tenure. Looking back over his career, the author draws a vast panorama of the environmental issue in Brazil and the fundamental role the Federal Police has played in bringing environmental crimes to justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: mapa lab
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9786586367737
• Artikelnr.: 70607997

Autorenporträt

JORGE PONTES studied Law at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Uerj) and made a career as a Federal Police Chief. He designed and founded the Federal Police Environmental Crimes Unit, which he led for ten years. In addition to serving as Regional Superintendent for Pernambuco, Director of Interpol, and Federal Police Attaché in Paris, he was also an elected member of the Interpol Executive Committee. Pontes studied at the FBI National Academy and holds a post-graduate degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Virginia, both in the USA. Since retiring from the Federal Police, he worked as International Relations Manager on the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games Security Committee and as Director of Teaching and Research for the National Department for Public Security, under the Ministry of Justice. In 2019, in conjunction with fellow Federal Police Chief Márcio Anselmo, he published the book Crime.gov: Quando corrupção e governo misturam (Editora Objetiva), published in English as Operation Car Wash: Brazil's Institutionalized Crime and the Inside Story of the Biggest Corruption Scandal in History (Bloomsbury). Pontes is a senior consultant with the Instituto de Combustível Legal (Legal Fuels Institute), which works to ensure the Brazilian fuels industry's lawful compliance in its commercial activities. He also writes a weekly column for Veja magazine, where he discusses public security and the fight against systemic corruption.