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Jail sentences for five in 1998 murder of Brazilian legislator
Jan 19, 2012, 14:49 GMT
Rio de Janeiro - Five people, including a former legislator, were sentenced to jail Thursday over the murder of legislator Ceci Cunha and three others, which shook Brazil in 1998.
The court in Maceio, in northeastern Brazil, convicted former legislator Pedro Talvane Luiz Gama de Albuquerque Neto, 55, of having masterminded the killings and sentenced him to 103 years and four months in jail.
The sentence says that Albuquerque, Cunha's substitute, ordered the killing so he could get Cunha's seat in the Brazilian Congress. He hired hitmen to commit the crime, which took place in Maceio on December 16, 1998.
The four hitmen, who worked as Albuquerque's advisors at the time of the attack, were each sentenced to 75-105 years in jail.
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