The Judicial Police (JP) seized 30 thousand individual doses of cocaine coming from the South American continent at Lisbon airport. The seized drug was transported inside the bodies of two foreign nationals who were detained and placed in preventive detention as part of a police operation to combat drug trafficking by air.
Last week, police seized the equivalent of about 11,000 individual doses of cocaine packaged in capsules inside a corpse and discovered during an autopsy conducted by the National Institute of Forensic Sciences. “The possible cause of death is considered to be the explosion of at least one of the capsules,” the joint venture said in a statement.
PJ adds that “despite the high risk to human life, criminal networks continue to recruit human couriers, often young people in situations of great economic and/or emotional need, to transport significant quantities of drugs inside the body, luring them to people with large sums of money and at the same time false information about the real risks they face, including to their lives.”
This operation was developed in collaboration with other national and international authorities to prevent the entry of illegal drugs into the country, as well as into Europe.
Author: morning Post
Source: CM Jornal
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