Rough Translation,but you will get the point and the story behind this tragic case :
Rio - Police from the 75th Precinct (Rio D 'gold) decided to suspend the search for the body of Priscila Belfort, sister of the fighter MMA Victor Belfort and that's been missing since January 2004. Excavations were being made, since the mid-morning in a site in a Ipiiba Road 1003, which connecting Rio D "gold in Santa Isabel, São Gonçalo.
According Helaine Paiva da Silva, 27, who confessed to involvement in crime, the victim's remains were buried near a tree. The work was aided by sniffer dogs and metal detectors.
Nothing that goes directly to the case was found. Only pieces of black clothing and black sandals that would be of Priscilla, according to Helaine.
Delegate Anestor Magalhães confirmed that the victim was wearing black shirt and black sandals on the day it was captured.
Because no mortal rest was found, searches the body will only resume when new information was passed. The murder weapon had been thrown into a thicket of the site. Residents say the site is a spawning area.
Police said they will ask the breach of confidentiality of Helaine phone to confirm that it even came in contact or not with the family of Priscilla to ask for ransom, and said in a statement.
She pointed eight other participants in the crime.
She has three others were arrested: Ailton Lopes da Silva, Hugo de Oliveira Lopes and Silvana Cunha Luiza de Oliveira Lopes - are stuck in the 75th Precinct (Rio D 'gold). According to the prosecutor Rubens Viana José Bastos, the gang is hijackers would be composed of nine people and five are at large.
The group was arrested earlier this week after Helaine Paiva da Silva came to the prosecutors and confessed that he participated in the kidnapping of Priscilla, on 09 January 2004, and died in June of that year.
I only ask forgiveness and apologies," said Helaine. The other three prisoners deny involvement in the crime.
Police searches the site to the body of Priscila Belfort
Woman admits involvement in crime and possible points where the body was buried. The Woman and (NOT Sister to Vitor) would have debt of $ 9 mil with traffickers ( same as 9000 (thousand) Reais )
Woman had a debt of $ 9 mil with traffickers from the Mangueira favela in the north of Rio, because the consumption of synthetic drugs.
The dealer Nilson Dias, who is imprisoned in the Penitentiary of Gericinó, have given $ 1,500 for eight people, including the four arrested for the kidnap group Priscilla and secured the money from the debt by paying the ransom.
Also according to testimony by Helaine the 75th Precinct (Rio D 'gold), crime began to be planned in October 2003. Priscila was kidnapped on January 9, 2004, in downtown Rio, at 13h. She was taken to Niterói, in the metropolitan area, where he stayed one and a half in captivity in a museum, the Oceanic Region. The site was the target of suspicion by residents and the girl was taken to a shack in the slum of State in the City Center, where he remained until June.
As the ransom payment was not made and the case began to gain more and more impact, the bandits withdrew to receive the money from debt and Helaine he said could do whatever he wanted with it.
It was there that his wife and three other accomplices decided to kill the victim, since she had seen the face of all involved. According Helaine, came up to be a fight between the band, because they wanted to kill two and two wanted to free.
Priscilla then taken in June, to a site on Route Ipiiba 1003, that linking Rio D "gold in According to the report, Priscilla was performed, sitting against the trunk of a tree, with three shots to the chest and one in the head.
Helaine confessed to being the author of the shots, but investigations indicate that she may be lying to protect someone. According to police, the woman decided to surrender because it was being threatened.
The family said the body will wait to see if it is true, suffer too much with the case three years ago. Priscilla's mother is under the influence of tranquilizers. . The family says their daughter was not flawed.
Family will wait until the body is found:
Helaine confessed to being the author of the shots, but investigations indicate that she may be lying to protect someone. According to police, the woman decided to surrender because it was being threatened.
The family said the body will wait to see if it is true, poque suffer too much with the case three years ago. . Priscilla's mother is under the influence of tranquilizers. The family says their daughter was not flawed.
Boyfriend may be involved :
There are also unconfirmed information that Priscilla's boyfriend at the time, Luis Carlos Correia Fortes, son of Congressman Marcio Fortes, was involved in the kidnapping, since the debt for the purchase of drugs would also be his. The boy will be called to testify in the coming days.
Although the new version for crime contrary to research that had already been made since the death of Priscilla, prosecutors and Precinct 75 (Rio D Gold ") are convinced that the story is true. Both have achieved an arrest warrant for the accused.
Until then, the main suspicion was that the girl was the victim of traffickers from the Morro da Providencia, in downtown Rio .
I was in Rio that time ( Buzios) and remember it was all over the news, so tragic and sad........
Sorry once again for translation to english ;)
UPDATE from Brazilian forum :
Boyfriend is the main suspect,and has fleed ,this story stinks a lot, its people all the way up to the goverment maybe involved..... jeez... And that she saw something when she was working,that she was not suppose to see, and that she got a phone at work,then she went of from wor,and didnt say anything,then kidnapped, so boyfriend is main suspect,but police says it a very,very complicated case!
