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A Brazilian crypto businessman who allegedly arranged his former lawyer’s murder rather than pay the man a R$2.5 million ($471,965) bitcoin debt remains jailed after Brazil’s Supreme Court rejected his request for freedom.The First Panel of Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear defendant Danilo Afonso Pechin’s request for Habeas Corpus in connection to the execution-style murder of his lawyer Francisco Assis Henrique Neto Rocha.Pechin, a partner of the defunct crypto investments manager Valour Invest, which Brazilian media have described as a pyramid scheme, was arrested in August 2019 on suspicion that he paid hitmen R$500,000 to kill Rocha.Gunmen ambushed and murdered Rocha at a São Paulo gas station in June 2019.In a press statement, the Court said that prosecutors allege Pechin owed Rocha R$2.5 million “due to the sale of bitcoins” at the time of Rocha’s death.They cited that debt as the motive for Rocha’s murder.
A lower court had previously rejected Pechin’s request for freedom after finding “strong evidence” that he participated in the Rocha murder.Though initially complicated by a preliminary injunction, that denial of Habeas Corpus now stands.The investigation into Rocha’s death is ongoing.
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