Romeu Tuma (October 4, 1931 â 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, to a family of Syrian descent. 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.