Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — Rio de Janeiro mayor Marcelo Crivella was arrested on Tuesday as part of an investigation into corruption at the municipality, a source at the public prosecutor’s confirmed to AFP.
The judge leading the investigation, Rosa Helena Penna Macedo Guita called him “the head of a criminal organization … installed within the Rio mayor’s office with the aim of obtaining illicit profits in the most varied ways.”
Images shown on GloboNews television channel showed police arresting the mayor at his home in the upscale Barra de Tijuca neighborhood just before 6:00 am (0900 GMT).
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