Mota texted his concerns to his now-detained chief bodyguard, Iuri da Silva Gusmão. Investigators had received a tip suggesting that he might be hiding at his uncle’s rural property in a border town between Brazil and Paraguay. Mota explained that someone had switched on a “dirty” (unsecured) cellphone, and that police would be watching. “They already know,” Mota confirmed to his bodyguard when asked about the police operation the next day.
Source: Written by Vinicius Madureira, 2023-10-04; https://www.occrp.org/en/daily//en/daily/18086-tip-allows-brazilian-drug-lord-to-evade-arrest-for-the-second-time