Since 2022, the PS National Anti-Drug Trafficking Unit (UNCTE) has detained 18 officers at Lisbon Airport for international drug trafficking during various stages of Operation Deep Clean. All are on preventive treatment and, according to data CMhad a price list for cooperation with international human trafficking networks.
The last four detainees, caught in recent days at the seventh stage of the “deep sweep,” are from 21 to 29 years old. Three cleaning and baggage handling jobs at the airport. On 10 March, UNCTE observed them removing suitcases containing 55 kilograms of cocaine with an estimated street value of €1.6 million from a flight from Banjul, Gambia. ABOUT CM You know that two detained employees admitted to the joint venture that they received 20 thousand euros (10 thousand each) from the network that hired them. The third employee who drove the van out of the airport and the intermediary did not admit any amounts.
ABOUT morning Post found that in the previous six stages of the “deep cleansing”, detainees also admitted to working with price lists.