Brazil crime: One of world's biggest arms traffickers recaptured

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One of the world’s biggest arms traffickers has been recaptured in Brazil, police say, five months after he escaped from prison using a fake early release document.

João Filipe Barbieri was convicted for being part of a gang that smuggled hundreds of rifles from the US hidden in swimming pool equipment.

Barbieri was found at his mother’s house in a slum near Rio de Janeiro.

He is the stepson of the gang leader, who is known