Brazil police probe ties to illegal fishing in case of missing British journalist

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Authorities' hypothesis is that the people involved, and their motive, was related to illegal fishing and poaching activities.

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Two of the officers are Amazonas state police detectives directly involved in the case, while the other is a senior Brazilian federal police officer tracking it closely. They requested anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

Witnesses said they last saw Dom Phillips, a freelance journalist who has written for the Guardian and the Washington Post, on Sunday. Phillips was traveling deep in a lawless part of the Amazon rainforest with Bruno Pereira, a former official with federal indigenous agency Funai. The two men were on a reporting trip in the Javari Valley, a remote jungle area on the border between Peru and Colombia that is home to the world's largest number of uncontacted indigenous people. The wild and lawless region lures cocaine-smuggling gangs, as well as illegal hunters and fishermen.

As a former Funai official in the Javari indigenous reservation, Pereira had often clashed with fishermen plundering protected fishing stocks and traveled the region with a gun. He had also recently received a threatening letter from a fisherman, police told Reuters.

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