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Contemporary slavery. Coordinator of mobile group that combats slave work in Brazil explains landowner caught in the act the next procedures and penalties. Landowner Eutímio Lippaus cries. Boa Fé Farm, city: Ourilândia do Norte, State: Pará, Brazil. Special Group for the Repression of Forced Labour (Groupo Especial de Repressão ao Trabalho Forçado) or GERTRAF, as it is commonly known, is made up of 4 mobile groups that work in different regions of the country, investigating accusations of work conditions close to slavery on farms, charcoal works, plantations and sugar mills.  They are officials of the Ministry of Labour and they have support from the Federal Police.