US lists Brazilian criminal groups Comando Vermelho and PCC as terrorist organisations

1 June 2026

US lists Brazilian criminal groups Comando Vermelho and PCC as terrorist organisationsJim Lambert/Shutterstock.com

The US has designated Comando Vermelho (CV) and Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under EO 13224. The State Department also intends to designate both groups as Foreign Terrorist...

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Michael O'Kane

Michael is Senior Partner at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. He has acted in many of the most high profile and sensitive business crime cases of the last 25 years, at Peters & Peters and as a prosecutor. Michael was called…

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