Brazilian man arrested for Dutch drug dealer's fatal stabbing on Bali
The Brazilian police have arrested a suspect in the murder of Dutch national René P. on Bali, local media reported. The convicted drug dealer was stabbed to death outside a villa on the Indonesian island in March.
P. was about to leave a holiday home in Kerobokan on Bali with his girlfriend when two men attacked him, stabbing him to death. His girlfriend managed to escape unharmed.
The authorities identified the suspects as two Brazilian men aged 34 and 32, but they fled Indonesia before they could be arrested.
According to the Brazilian newspaper O Globo, the Brazilian authorities arrested one of these two men after he was caught with a forged document while applying for a passport. The second suspect is still at large.
P. was sentenced to five years in prison in the Netherlands for drug trafficking in 2005. He briefly ended up on the national wanted list in 2010 when he fled after serving most of his sentence. The authorities tracked him down, and he eventually served his entire sentence.
