Exposing how environmental crimes are covered up in the Amazon

Environmental offenders often use relatives and employees as fronts to evade environmental fines and lawsuits, a widespread practice in the Brazilian Amazon.
Fronts prevent the real criminals from having their assets seized to pay for environmental fines, besides consuming time and resources from the authorities, who spend years trying to prove who the real financier of the deforestation is.
Experts say it’s best to go after the pockets of environmental offenders where it hurts the most, by seizing their assets, rather than to chase down their true identity.
This Mongabay Explains is part of an investigation done in partnership with Repórter Brasil.
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