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Romeu Tuma
2010Oct, 26

Romeu Tuma

Romeu Tuma, Brazilian police officer and politician (b. 1931)
Romeu Tuma (October 4, 1931 – October 26, 2010) was a Brazilian politician and a former director of the Federal Police.Tuma was born on October 4, 1931 in São Paulo, Brazil. He died on October 26, 2010, of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, in the Sirio-Libanês Hospital in São Paulo, where he had been since September, suffering from infectious aphonia.

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