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The dentist Fernanda Costa (MDB-RJ), daughter of the drug trafficker Fernandinho Beira-Mar, today assumes the position of councilor in Duque de Caxias, in Baixada Fluminense. She is the party’s first alternate and will take office after Mayor Washington Reis, also from the BMD, appointed one of the members of the caucus as secretary.
Fernanda Costa, 32, received 3,999 votes and was the eighth most voted BMD councilor in the municipality, which has 855,000 inhabitants, according to an estimate from the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), and is the third largest electoral college from Rio de Janeiro.
He will assume the mandate in the vacancy of Sandro Lelis, former mayor of the city, who will be in command of the Municipal Secretariat of Public Services. The information was confirmed in a note from the Duque de Caxias City Council. The inauguration takes place this afternoon.
The Duque de Caxias City Council informs that the elected councilor Sandro Lelis, former mayor of the city, was appointed municipal secretary of Public Services. Her seat in the Chamber will be occupied by Dr. Fernanda Costa, dentist, elected candidate who takes office in the plenary session of the Chamber this Monday (04/01), at 3:00 pm ”, states the text.
Fernanda ran for her second election in 2020; She had already tried to be elected councilor in the city in 2016, by the PP, but could not get a seat in the Chamber.
Fernandinho Beira-Mar is one of the largest drug traffickers in the country, and is considered one of the main leaders of CV (Comando Vermelho), the largest trafficking faction in Rio. He comes from the Beira-Mar favela in Duque de Caxias, which he inherited the name, and expanded his business to other communities in the state and even to international drug trafficking routes.
A fugitive from Brazilian justice since 1997, when he escaped from prison, the drug trafficker was captured in 2001 in Colombia by the country’s army. His transfer to Brazil became an important political event: then-Governor Anthony Garotinho and the Federal Police fought a dispute to define who would transfer the drug trafficker. Garotinho even sent Rio’s Security Secretary, Josias Quintal, to Colombia, but Beira-Mar ended up being flown by the PF on a FAB (Brazilian Air Force) plane. He was taken to Brasilia.
