Dozens of agents arrested in São Paulo

são paulo - The authorities in the Brazilian state of São Paulo have arrested more than fifty police officers on Tuesday. They are suspected of being bribed by the powerful criminal...

Prosecutors say that a total of 53 members were arrested from the 22nd battalion of the state police. It concerns nearly 10 percent of the agents in that police battalion. The suspects all worked in the same area in São Paulo. They allegedly looked the other way for payment while drugs were being traded.