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  "lead": "Celso Augusto Daniel (April 16, 1951 – January 18, 2002) was the mayor in 2002 for the third time of the city of Santo André in São Paulo, Brazil, as a representative of the Workers' Party (PT). He was kidnapped and murdered in the same year. A civil engineer who graduated in 1973, from the Engenharia Mauá School, in São Caetano do Sul, he followed an academic career and obtained a master's degree in public administration from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-SP) and a doctorate in political science from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC-SP). He acted later as a teacher in both universities. As mayor he was connected to the United Nations Urban Management Programme. He received the 2002 Dubai International Awards for Best Practices. Celso Daniel's murder has not been properly solved by the local authorities, and the conclusions obtained by the investigations are still under dispute; the criminals who kidnapped him have been arrested but theories about their motivation for the crime vary from suggestions that it was a botched kidnapping attempt caused by a misunderstanding of the mayor's identity to conspiracy theories that the crime was politically motivated and the killers were actually paid by figures of Daniel's own political party, PT. Since the beginning of the investigation, seven witnesses have been found dead.…",
  "body": "Celso Augusto Daniel (April 16, 1951 – January 18, 2002) was the mayor in 2002 for the third time of the city of Santo André in São Paulo, Brazil, as a representative of the Workers' Party (PT). He was kidnapped and murdered in the same year. A civil engineer who graduated in 1973, from the Engenharia Mauá School, in São Caetano do Sul, he followed an academic career and obtained a master's degree in public administration from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-SP) and a doctorate in political science from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica (PUC-SP). He acted later as a teacher in both universities. As mayor he was connected to the United Nations Urban Management Programme. He received the 2002 Dubai International Awards for Best Practices. Celso Daniel's murder has not been properly solved by the local authorities, and the conclusions obtained by the investigations are still under dispute; the criminals who kidnapped him have been arrested but theories about their motivation for the crime vary from suggestions that it was a botched kidnapping attempt caused by a misunderstanding of the mayor's identity to conspiracy theories that the crime was politically motivated and the killers were actually paid by figures of Daniel's own political party, PT. Since the beginning of the investigation, seven witnesses have been found dead. Globoplay created a documentary about him, titled \"O Caso Celso Daniel\" (2022). ==Kidnapping and death== Celso Daniel was fifty years old, when he held the office of mayor of Santo André for the third time, he was kidnapped on the night of January 18, 2002, as he was leaving a steakhouse located in the Jardins region, in São Paulo. According to the press, the mayor was in an armored Mitsubishi Pajero, in the company of businessman Sérgio Gomes da Silva, also known as \"Shadow\". The car would have been chased by three other vehicles: a Santana, a Tempra and a Blazer. The car was followed by kidnappers and, near number 393 of Rua Antônio Bezerra, in the neighborhood of Sacomã, the cars managed to block their path. Shots were fired against the tires and the glasses; Da Silva, who was the driver, said that at that moment the brakes and the transmission didn't work. The armed bandits then opened the car door, pulled the mayor out of there and took him away, while he stayed in the area and remained unscathed. On the morning of January 20, 2002, Sunday, the body of Mayor Celso Daniel, was found with eight shots, on Estrada das Cachoeiras, in Bairro do Carmo, at kilometer 328 of the Régis Bittencourt highway (BR-116), in Juquitiba. ==See also== Antonio da Costa Santos Corruption in Brazil List of kidnappings ==References== ==External links== Cobertura do Caso Celso Daniel, Folha de S.Paulo. Justiça nega liminar a José Dirceu no caso Celso Daniel , O Estado de S. Paulo, 17 June 2005. Família de Celso Daniel decide pedir novo laudo O Estado de S. Paulo, 17 April 2005 Juíz acata denúncia no caso Celso Daniel em SP, Terra, 4 March 2005 Justiça analisa nova denúncia no caso Celso Daniel, Terra, 20 January 2005 , The New York Times, 1 February 2004 Laudo aponta contradição no caso Celso Daniel, Terra, 26 May 2004 MP convocará assessor de Lula no caso Celso Daniel, Terra, 24 May 2005 Morte de Celso Daniel completa 2 anos sem solução Terra, 20 January 2004 Irmão de Celso Daniel mantém acusações ao PT Terra, 11 December 2003 Brazilians mourn kidnapped mayor, BBC News, 21 January 2002 Mayor's Killing In Brazil State Churns Politics And Stirs Rage, The New York Times, 22 January 2002",
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