When the Brazilian Mafia came for My Company, police and judges looked away. When people linked to the PCC and Brazil’s fuel mafia came for my biodiesel company in the interior of São Paulo, this was not a business dispute. This was not a contractual disagreement. This was an intimidation driven takeover inside a regulated energy industry, carried out in a criminal environment that no lawful investor should ever face. What happened to my company was obscene. It violated basic law, basic due process, and basic human rights. It destroyed a legitimate enterprise built under Brazil’s own national biodiesel policy and left my family living with the consequences of institutional collapse. The takeover did not begin in a courtroom. It began with individuals acting as if they had authority they did not possess, as if corporate governance, legal representation, and ownership were irrelevant. A central figure, Mohammed Hussein Mourad, signed documents at a cartório that were then used as a...
