owner ofRhino Participacoes & Distribuidora de Alimentos Ltda., a SaoPaulo-based wholesale food distributor, bought a 400,000-square--meter piece of land in 2003 on Praia da Costa beach on theMamangua Inlet. The property, in the 8,000-hectare (19,800-acre) Juatingaecological preserve, is protected because its home to the onlytropical fjord in South America. The spot is flanked bymountains covered with virtually untouched forest where monkeys,anteaters and jaguars live. Fernandes constructed a two-story, 666-square-meter home onthe beach, prosecutors say in a civil court case against him.The 15-room house has wooden shutters and glass-panel windows onthe ground floor. A guesthouse and a housekeepers chalet sit upa hill. Fernandes Sued Federal prosecutors sued Fernandes in November 2004 for notobtaining an environmental license to build. He had cut downparts of the protected forest, filled in a stream and removedcoastal vegetation, federal prosecutor Patricia Venancio wrotein a Jan. 3, 2006, report. A court ordered Fernandes in 2004 to stop construction, andhe didnt. Since then, hes been appealing judicial demands totear down the house he completed and restore the land to itsoriginal state, according to a September 2011 report by ICMBio. Paul Pflug, a spokesman for Summit Entertainment Corp., (SUET)says the company isnt aware of prosecutor accusations regardingthe property where it filmed Breaking Dawn. Most millionaires register properties in the names ofholding companies, allowing them to pay lower taxes and makingit more difficult for the government to know whos responsiblefor environmental crimes, says Ricardo Martins, a federalprosecutor. Often, the companies are controlled by othercompanies based in tax havens. Modernist Home Thats the case with the Marinho media family. The Marinhosbroke environmental laws by building a 1,300-square-metermansion just off Santa Rita beach, near Paraty, says GrazielaMoraes Barros, an inspector at ICMBio. Without permits, the family in 2008 built a modernist homebetween two wide, independent concrete blocks sheathed in glass,Barros says. The Marinho home has won several architecturalhonors, including the 2010 Wallpaper Design Award. The Marinhos added a swimming pool on the public beach andcleared protected jungle to make room for a helipad, saysBarros, who participated in a raid of the property as part ofthe federal prosecutors offices lawsuit against construction onthe land. This one house provides examples of some of the mostserious environmental crimes we see in the region, Barrossays. A lot of people say the Marinhos rule Brazil. The beachhouse shows the family certainly thinks they are above thelaw. Armed Guards Two security guards armed with pistols patrol the land,shooing away anyone who tries to use the public beach, she says.A federal judge in November 2010 ordered the family to tear downthe house and all other buildings in the area. The Marinhos wereappealing that ruling as of early March. Their lawyer, Corina Tarcila de Oliveira Resende, whos notrelated to Antonio Claudio Resende, declined to comment. Barreto built his dream house on an island 15 kilometersfrom the Marinho compound. The film director has no right to usethe land, police say. Prosecutors charged Barreto in February2006 with illegally clearing protected forest in an area thatbelongs to Brazils navy. A September 2008 inspection by ICMBio found that Barretohad built a 450-square-meter mansion on top of