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established itself among the elite of Rio's carnival, with expensive and luxurious parades, while the families aligned themselves with the military regime. The link between the public authorities and the samba school was maintained over the years with the election of members of the Abraão-Sessim
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that won the competition, used bribes and a hitman to buy and intimidate members of the carnival jury. According to a
Federal Police report some of the judges may have been bribed or pressured into favouring Beija-Flor. A gunman working for Beija-Flor's president of honour, Anísio, allegedly
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threatened some of the judges. According to extracts from a federal police report "some individuals who worked as carnival jurors and refused to accept benefits from Anisio were threatened or had their relatives threatened with death if the Beija-Flor school did not win the 2007 carnival".
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334:, but in December 2012 Anísio, Capitão Guimarães, Kalil and 19 others were again convicted by the Criminal Court in Rio de Janeiro. Anísio was sentenced to 47 years and 9 months for conspiracy and corruption. The judge's sentence said that the
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criminal organisation had "an intense connection with the state, through the bribing of public officials, including in the police and the judiciary, and even with the political system, through the financing of political campaigns."
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and their collaboration in the persecution and prosecution of opponents of the regime, in combination with co-opting of military and police officers to protect their business, helped to advance their rise. The purging of the small
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136:, with the annexation of their selling points through intimidation and force, and the "takeover" of the Beija Flor samba school, opened up space for their social ascension and the strengthening of their power in Nilópolis.
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One of the charges was that bicheiros fixed the results of Rio de
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for 18 years until his death in 2020, was the mayor of the city from 2001 to 2008 and again from 2017 to 2020. One of his nephews,
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