The Global Advisor: Spotlight on Latin America | January 2025
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Brazil
Location of recorded incidents in November and December 2024
Source: Control Risks
Criminals abduct international model and her family in São Paulo Criminals on 27 November kidnapped an international model, her husband and their 14-year-old daughter in São Paulo (São Paulo state). They intercepted the family as they were leaving a restaurant on Pio XI Street and took them to a safe house in the Parada de Taipas area. The perpetrators stole their car and made multiple bank transfers for an unreported amount. They released the victims 12 hours later after hearing the police search helicopters.
Control Risks comment
Similar cases are likely to persist coming into 2025 given the high number of kidnappers targeting wealthy areas searching for affluent victims. Criminals will continue to use safe houses in Parque Taipas given its remote location in the far north of São Paulo.
Criminals shoot businessman during express kidnap Criminals abducted a 64-year-old businessman outside his apartment in Recreio, Zona Oeste, Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro state) on 25 November. The perpetrators released the victim hours later in a woodland area of Realengo, Rio de Janeiro. According to reports, the victim had been shot and required hospital treatment post-release. No further details were reported.
Control Risks comment
Rio de Janeiro will remain one of the kidnapping hotspots in Brazil as 2025 begins, given the prevalence of financially motivated criminals. Express kidnaps will also frequently take place as low-capability criminals prefer short-lived abductions given they lack the necessary capabilities to hold on to victims for longer periods, as well as their intention to evade the response from the police. Victims rarely sustain injuries, although the likelihood of perpetrators resorting to violence will increase if the victims refuse to comply with the kidnappers’ demands.
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