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The 51-year-old Simone de A. was arrested in Sorocaba (Brazil) for the murder of a 73-year-old Dutchman. The death of Hans van Denderen was probably concealed because the woman sent messages of his name to, among others, the man's relatives. This is what Jose Antonio Proença Martins de Melo, spokesman for the police in the Brazillian Votorantim, says in a conversation with the news site Globo.com. Simone denies having murdered Hans.

The former boss of the Brazilian state oil company Petrobras and ex-topman of Banco do Brasil, Aldemir Bendine, has been arrested in a corruption investigation. Brazilian media reported that it was arrested by the federal police in Sorocaba in the state of São Paulo. Bendine is suspected of having taken over from one of the largest construction companies in the world, the Brazilian company Odebrecht.