{
  "id": 19715722,
  "title": "Brazilian Police Investigate Birth Certificate Fraud Scheme to Issue Brazilian IDs to Foreigners",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/brazilian-police-investigate-birth-certificate-fraud-scheme-to-issue",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-12T21:25:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Folha de S.Paulo (English)",
    "slug": "folha-de-s-paulo-english",
    "url": "https://redir.folha.com.br/redir/online//rss091/*https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/world/2026/11/brazilian-police-investigate-birth-certificate-fraud-scheme-to-issue-brazilian-ids-to-foreigners.shtml"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A criminal organization suspected of forging birth certificates so that foreigners from the Middle East and Russia could obtain Brazilian identity cards is the target of an operation launched Thursday (12) by the Federal District's Civil Police. Folha learned that among the beneficiaries is Fahad Abdullah Bakalka, mentioned in a U.S. document about the September 11 attacks. There are also other…",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}