Black bats

A thread connects Collor's political rebirth and the case of double homicide without culprits: impunity. For 17 years, journalist Lucas Figueiredo investigated the mysteries surrounding the duo, gathering evidence that the PC Scheme had connections to international organized crime. By combing through classified documents in Italy, Switzerland, the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil, the journalist gained access to data relating to financial transactions between Paulo César and Italian mobsters belonging to one of the largest international drug trafficking networks. Originally published in 2000 to great critical and public success (eight weeks at number 1 on the bestseller list), Morcegos negros – a landmark in national investigative journalism – is now back in bookstores with a revised and expanded text. In this new edition, Lucas Figueiredo addresses—in a previously unpublished and revealing afterword—Collor's return to politics as an ally of the Workers' Party (PT), the impunity that protects the corrupt and those who corrupt them, and the ongoing public money embezzlement schemes run by PC "offspring" in Brasília. He also includes fresh information about the mysterious fate of the scheme's fortune and, most importantly, explains why Paulo César and Suzana's killers managed to escape justice.