Last year, his bodyguard was arrested for the murders of five men, whom he claimed Souza had ordered him to kill so that they could “discover” them on [his] show. Souza and his son were arrested, though Souza’s status as a politician prevents him from being held in jail. Now the chief prosecutor of Amazonas, Brazil, has brought Souza up on drug trafficking charges too. It seems that he was also running a drug ring along with several other ex-police officers, and that the killings he ordered helped eliminate his competition in the world of drug selling, as well as on television.
The other producers doing reality TV are just annoyed they didn’t think of it first.
