Overview
- The 41-year-old naturalized Italian was tracked under Project Wanted and seized on December 30 in a supermarket parking lot in Cuorgnè, near Turin.
- He was sentenced by the São Paulo district criminal court to 20 years for rape of vulnerable persons after repeated abuse of girls between 2012 and 2018.
- Investigators say the assaults occurred in family homes, with the perpetrator exploiting kinship ties to gain access to the victims.
- The arrest was validated by an Italian judicial authority, and the suspect remains in custody at Ivrea prison.
- The operation involved the Turin mobile squad, the Central Operational Service and the international police cooperation service at the request of Brazilian authorities.