Today is the second day of the mock debates of the Shuksas process.

Ruben Oliveira’s lawyer sent batteries to the prosecutor’s office and judicial police during a mock debate on Tuesday. Vitor Parente Ribeiro pressed charges for two hours, pointing out that the investigation had an illegal basis and that there was no evidence against Suks that could be used in sentencing. He added that “Suksa is the worst drug dealer in the world, not the biggest one, as the prosecutor alleges. He has not been charged with any drug dealing business, nor the gram,” trying to show a lack of evidence of crimes. of human trafficking, who is accused.

Shuksas’ defense says there is no evidence of a “single drug deal” by the defendant

Ruben Oliveira’s defense (“Shuksas”) believed that there was no evidence of a “single business” selling cocaine to the defendants, and criticized him for having already been “convicted in the public square” by the “media” because “the largest drug dealer in Portugal”.

This and other criticisms by lawyer Vitor Parente Ribeiro of the prosecutor’s office and the “media”, as well as criminal judge Carlos Alexandre for rejecting the defense motions, were made at the second session of the instructive discussion of the process in which “Shuksas” and 20 other defendants are responsible for crimes of the criminal community, drug trafficking and money laundering.

Realizing that the Prosecutor’s Office (MP) had not proved a single transaction or sale of cocaine carried out by “Shuksas”, because of which the charge “collapsed to the ground”, the lawyer joked that, on the contrary, Ruben Oliveira could only have been called the “worst dealer” by the press , arguing that, in contrast to the millions of euros attributed to him as wealth, only five thousand euros were seized from the defendant.

He denied that the defendant, appointed as the undisputed leader of the criminal organization by MP, had valuable real estate in the Algarve or Dubai, specifying that Rubén Oliveira only owned a few houses in Lisbon’s social district and a villa on the outskirts. highway near Olivais.

“If the deputy does not accuse him of a single drug deal, what is this person going to whitewash?” asks Vitor Parente Ribeiro, still denying the accusation of the accused in the criminal community.

The lawyer classified the process as a “French tragedy”, citing the alleged irregularities and defects that underlay the investigation based on files and data collected from the encrypted phone services ENCROCHAT ECC and SKY ECC through the French authorities.” “malicious” means that are legal in France but illegal in Portugal.

On Monday morning, the debate was adjourned due to a lack of responders. According to defense sources, two of the accused, who are being held in a Lisbon prison, were not present due to disruptions in prison services. The judge suspended the mock debate session, which resumed at 13:30.

The investigative phase of the trial, the main defendant Rubén Oliveira, who was in pretrial detention and until recently considered the largest cocaine trafficker in Portugal, began on 14 June. The hearing lasted less than an hour and at which some of the accused chose to testify. .

According to the deputy’s indictment, the criminal group, led by Ruben Oliveira, had “close ties” with drug traffickers in Brazil and Colombia, and since mid-2019 has been importing large quantities of cocaine from South America.

The organization, led by Shuksas, had ties to Sergio Carvalho, a drug dealer known as the “Brazilian Escobar” and responsible for exporting tons of cocaine to Europe.

According to a source connected with the trial, Gurvinder Singh is incriminating Ruben Oliveira. According to the indictment, the Shusas organization had ramifications in various logistics structures in Portugal, namely in the seaports of Setúbal and Leixões, at the Humberto Delgado airport in Lisbon, in the Mercado Abastesedor da Regian de Lisboa (MARL) market and others, thus allowing the import large volumes of drugs without the supervision of the authorities.

The cocaine was brought into Portugal through companies importing fruits and other food and non-food products using shipping containers. The drug also entered the country in suitcases by plane from Brazil to Portugal.

This trial, which involves 21 defendants (18 people and three companies), deals with crimes related to aggravated drug trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering and possession of illegal weapons.