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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - Federal police targeted Brazil's environmental protection agency Thursday in a crackdown on illegal logging, arresting 48 officials and several independent businessmen.
Authorities alleged that officials within the agency, Ibama, were responsible for allowing the illegal clearing of 119,000 acres of Amazon rainforest over the past two years — much of it on Indian reservations and in national parks.
"This is a very important moment because our government has broken up this high level of corruption," said Sen. Serys Slhessarenko of Mato Grosso state
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