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Mystery surrounds the disappearance of a Brazilian man after he was found in Spain on Tuesday, despite last making contact with his wife from Switzerland.
Márcio Rodrigues, 44, arrived in the northern Swiss city of Zurich on November 8 to purportedly finalize a deal with investors before he abruptly stopped communicating with his wife.
A copy of a police report reviewed by Brazilian news outlet G1 indicates that Swiss law enforcement has been in contact with their Spaniard counterparts.
His brother-in-law, Carlos Cerá told DailyMail.com on Thursday that Interpol had instructed the family not to reveal details of the investigation, but he did say that Rodrigues fears for his life.
'My brother-in-law's life is still at risk,' Cera said. 'We were ordered not to transmit any new information to Interpol so as not to hinder investigations.'
Cera declined to say in which city Rodrigues was located, but did say that he is in good health.
'He is much better, as far as possible because he was in captivity for 13 days, but he is still outside Brazil but we cannot say where due to the issue of his physical integrity,' he said.
Brazilian businessman Márcio Rodrigues was found in Spain on Tuesday, 13 days after he mysteriously disappeared in Switzerland, authorities in the Swiss city of Zurich confirmed. His wife, Ana Cera, had previously said that he was going to travel to Spain after concluding his meeting in Zurich
Rodrigues reportedly traveled to Switzerland to seal the final details of a deal he reached online for therapeutic products he was selling.
The Brazilian businessman boarded a flight in São Paulo on November 7 at 6pm Brazil time and landed in Barcelona on November 8 at 8:25am.
He waited 1 hour and 25 minutes for his connecting flight and departed at 9:50am. His flight arrived in Zurich at 11:40am.
While at Zurich Airport, Rodrigues was in communication with his wife, Ana Cera, sending her the first of several messages at 5:45am Brazil time.
Eleven minutes elapsed before he reached out to her again and told her that he was concerned about not being able to speak English, his business partners' language of choice.
However, his wife told G1 that he was going to contact a Spanish-speaking person who could serve as a translator.
Márcio Rodrigues was going to fly from Switzerland to Spain for another business meeting, according to his wife. Cera's brother, Carlos, told DailyMail.com via text message that Rodrigues is doing well, but fears for his life
Prior to going missing, Brazilian native Márcio Rodrigues sent a photo of passengers waiting at the arrivals gate after stepping off the airplane in Zurich, Switzerland
One of the last photos that Márcio Rodrigues sent his wife was of the airplane parked at the Zurich Airport's arrival gate
Between 8:11am and 8:32am, Rodrigues sent his wife a photo of the airplane in the background, another of fellow passengers waiting to exit at the arrival gate and a video of the terminal.
Five hours passed before Rodrigues reached out to his wife again, telling her that he was in a taxi on his way to the hotel to try to recover his passport, which was allegedly taken from him by a group of people who the businessman went to meet.
'Pray for me, because I think I fell into a trap. My God, in half an hour I'll know what's going to happen to me,' Rodrigues told his wife at 1:32pm.
'They said that in 15 minutes, half an hour, they will bring me my passport. But I've been waiting here for almost four hours.
'I met with them, they took a photo of my face,' he said. '(They) brought a machine to take my fingerprints and took my passport (to be scanned).'
Rodrigues sent his wife another message at 1:34pm before he stopped responding to her messages because his cellphone had been shut off.
Carlos Cera told DailyMail.com that Rodrigues had also planned on traveling to another country for a training session with a group he already knew.
While Cera did not specify the country, his sister had told G1 that Rodrigues would travel to Spain.
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