for example, it was reported that during an official visit to India (the world’s 2nd largest arms importer) President Bolsonaro was accompanied by an entourage of defence officials along with the CEO’s of 10 of Brazil’s largest defence companies, including Taurus, CBC, and Condor. While visiting India, President Bolsonaro attended the as Bahrain and Yemen, raise serious concerns about the rigour of Brazil’s export regime over the past decade. 4.3.1 Case Study: Condor Non-Lethal Technologies 1st Brazil–India Defence Industry Dialogue of the India-Brazil Business Forum (IBBF). At the event, Taurus Over the past two decades, Condor has emerged as a world leader in the manufacture and trade of signed a joint venture agreement with the Indian company Jindal Defence. Under the terms of the agreement, law enforcement equipment. Based in the Nova Iguaçu municipality of the state of Rio de Janeiro, the company the two companies will establish a new joint venture company (Jindal 51%, Taurus 49%) in Haryana, India to manufactures a broad range of less lethal weapons, including chemical irritants, stun grenades, kinetic impact manufacture a range of small arms including carbines, revolvers, pistols and assault rifles based on existing projectiles and electric shock weapons. Key to the success of Condor has been its ability to expand into Taurus technologies116. President Bolsonaro’s visit to India, followed reports in 2019, that a similar cohort of foreign markets. According to the company’s promotional materials, Condor currently has offices in Abu defence company executives accompanied the president during visits to the UAE and Saudi Arabia - the world’s Dhabi, Singapore, Rio de Janeiro, and Brasilia as well as more than 80 agents and representatives operating largest arms importer117. The presence of large cohorts of defence industry representatives on official visits is worldwide122. In 2014, the company was designated as a defence company of strategic importance (EED) by symptomatic of the close relationship between the defence industry and government in Brazil. Recently it was the Brazilian Government123. reported that during the first 16 months of Bolsonaro’s presidency, representatives from the defence industry had a total of 73 official meetings with the Federal Government118. Although the Brazilian government has recently stopped publishing detailed data about the exports of specific companies, data showing exports from municipalities including the type of product sold, the country of Unfortunately, despite the recent growth of Brazil’s arms trade both regionally and internationally, there destination and the total value of the exports continue to be published by the Ministry of Development, Industry remains little comprehensive or detailed data related to the country’s export of law enforcement equipment and Foreign Trade. According to this data, between 2012 and April 2020 a total of almost $183 million USD and weapons . The Small Arms Survey’s barometer of transparency ranks Brazil between China and the worth of law enforcement and security equipment were exported from the Nova Iguaçu municipality124. To the Philippines in 42nd place in terms of the reporting of its small arms exports. The availability of detailed data best of Omega’s knowledge, Condor is the only manufacturer and exporter of these types of products in Nova on exports was further restricted in 2017, following a decision by the Brazilian Government to cease publication Iguaçu. As such, it is highly likely that these figures relate to exports of Condor products. 119 of statistics on individual companies’ exports, which had previously included information about the countries of destination and value ranges of exports. The justification given for this increased secrecy was “fiscal / business confidentiality” 120. Given the lack of granular export data, a detailed quantitative analysis of the Brazilian export market for law enforcement equipment was not possible. However, by using anecdotal evidence and case studies as well as other trade information gathered from official government sources, company websites, and trade publications, it was nevertheless possible to get some sense of the overall size and scope of the country’s exports121. Using these sources, Omega has found evidence of 13 Brazilian companies having either carried out actual exports, claimed to have exported or registered to export one or more of the types of equipment described in section one, namely: Algemas Brasil; Amadeo Rossi S.A. Metalurgica E Municoes; Bélica Militar; CBC; Condor; E.R. Amantino Industria de Maquinas Equ. Accessorios e Armas Esportivas Ltda. (Boito); ER DO Brasil; Industria De Material Belico Do Brasil (IMBEL); Indios Pirotecnia Ltda; O Filizzola & Cia Ltda; Poly Defensor; RJC Defesa Aeroespacial Ltda; and Taurus S.A. Details of the evidence concerning the exports of all these companies are provided in the table in Annex A. In the sections below, however, the report will focus on the cases of just two of these companies – Condor and Taurus – who are among Brazil’s largest exporters of law enforcement and security equipment and whose recent export practices, including the sale of equipment to countries with dubious human rights records such 48  ▼ Figure 3: Condor exports worldwide 2012-2020. Darker areas on the map represent regions with greater exports.