What is worrisome is the magnitude that his organization attained because of his spirit of leadership.”ĭa Costa has been singled out as a textbook case in a crackdown on the guns-and-drugs racket that makes the FARC a threat to Colombia and the region. “He made contact with other networks that are not easy to enter, like the guerrillas. “Fernandinho is very intelligent,” said Ronaldo Urbano, deputy chief of the anti-drug division of Brazil’s federal police. He appears to be linked to a major guns-for-drugs deal between the FARC and Russian gangsters looking to unload arms in Latin America and peddle cocaine in Europe. law enforcement because he allegedly ran guns to leftist guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in exchange for cocaine.

Da Costa, 35, is a prime target of Colombian and U.S.