02/14/2024 – 23:12
The Federal Police arrested Hugo Pimenta, convicted of the Unaí Massacre (MG), in the early hours of this Tuesday (13). The man, who had been on the run for five months, was arrested in Campo Grande (MS).
He was sentenced to 96 years in prison for participating in the murder of Labor tax auditors and a driver in January 2004, but had his sentence reduced after signing a plea agreement. In 2015, during the trial, he admitted to having participated in the crime.
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According to a PF note, the criminal had a false passport.
In September last year, the Federal Regional Court of the 6th Region (TRF-6), in Belo Horizonte, ordered the immediate arrest of those responsible for the massacre – farmers Antério Mânica, who was mayor of Unaí, and Norberto Mânica – and more two convicted of having intermediated the massacre, including Hugo Pimenta.
Anterior Manica handed himself over to the Federal Police in Brasília after 19 years of the crime. Norberto Mânica is considered a fugitive.
Remember the case
On January 28, 2004, Labor tax auditors Erastóstenes de Almeida Gonçalves, João Batista Soares and Nelson José da Silva and driver Ailton Pereira de Oliveira were murdered at close range in an ambush in the rural area of Unaí, a city in the northwest of Minas Gerais. They investigated allegations of work similar to slavery. The episode became known as the Unaí Massacre.
The investigations identified farmers Antério and Norberto Mânica as those responsible for the crime. The brothers were sentenced to 100 years in prison, but appealed when they were free because they were first-time offenders.
José Alberto de Castro and Hugo Pimenta were convicted of hiring the shooters.
The only ones serving sentences so far were the three gunmen, Erinaldo Vasconcelos, Rogério Allan and William Miranda. Imprisoned since 2004, they were convicted in 2013.
In January of this year, crimes turned 20 years old. The massacre was the milestone for the creation of National Day to Combat Slave Labor.
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