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Let’s go shopping! Posted by on Apr 10, 2008 in Brazilian News

This week, the São Paulo Jockey Club was the host of a major bazaar and auction — the sale of the worldly goods of one of the world’s most infamous drug traffickers, a Colombian by the name of Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia. He was arrested in Brazil last year, and is currently convicted to thirty years in jail there.

The government sold and auctioned off his goods, which included his car collection, his twelve flat screen TVs, furniture, women’s and men’s clothes and shoes–even his underwear. Most of the items were sold within three hours of the start of the auction. Only a few watches are left.

The sale and leilão (auction) raised $R1.1 million, most of which is being donated to two Brazilian charities.

Click here for more pictures of the event from BBC.

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