Weekly. Departure: Brazil. Destination: Portugal. Goods: 10 tons of coca
Thus: June 2021, Brazilian police found 1.3 tons from all over Latin America. The drug was classified as a drug for vegetable fat and which was later classified as the drug for vegetable fat and also classified as the drug for vegetable fat. It arrived 48 hours and the operation was discovered in a port where ‘powder’ to be trafficked. And Portugal is increasingly a popular destination for international cartels operating from Brazil.
Only last year, and including the rescue mentioned above by the Federal Police and the Federal Revenue – of the two authorities fighting that country – between 5 and 10 tons of cocaine that had as main destination the ports of Sines, Leixões or the island from Madeira. The value is approximate to the total that was seized in the same period in Portugal by the Judiciary Police (see figures).
A PJ source reveals that, in the last five years, Brazil, in the last five years, in Brazil, as an exit point for cocaine by sea and air to the whole world, especially to Europe, this drug is highly profitable. Attending, obviously, Portugal. “There are more and more networks involved with producers and distributors in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia”, explains this source.
One, two, three operations
Let’s go back to Santos: at the end of 2021, in that same port, another investigation was born that led to the discovery of almost half a ton of cocaine that was hidden in seven bottles of bottles that were destined for the port of Leixões.
More complex deep-sea fishing operations and arrest an extensive group of foreign operations; the product was then transported to the coast of Namibia, South Africa — and to the island of Madeira. The Federal Police of Brazil prevented more than 6 tons of cocaine from being trafficked through this network.
On the other hand, precisely a year ago, the coast of Recife was a sailboat that contained 2.2 tons of cocaine that would also come to Portugal. This case led to cooperation with the authorities in Lisbon, but also in the United Kingdom and the United States.
But cocaine didn’t just come by sea — and it was in the air that one of the most popular stories took place. It was in February 2021: a plane departing from Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) and arriving at Tires airfield (Cascais) was carrying 500 kilos of this drug. The case in the two countries-if flight plan were listed, because the Portuguese linked to football, who were investigated by the police. inside this document was the name of João Loureiro, son of the former Boavista player, Valentim Loureiro, whose hypotheses also possible involvement in the crime were ruled out. Six months later, another private plane that was going to pass through the Portuguese capital was caught with 1.3 of coca in ‘luggage’.
a portuguese apostate
Despite the remarkable volume, the Brazil-Portugal transit is not new. For João Rucha Pereira, international security consultant, drug cartels have always bet on our country. “But now they are betting more”, he points out. Rucha Pereira, however, recalls that the PJ and the Portuguese intelligence services are “in a greater phase of international cooperation” to stop crime, “which has produced good results”.
Another security specialist, José Manuel Anes, corroborates Pereira’s opinion, but adds another factor. “International cooperation (in this case between Portugal and Brazil) is a decision, but also internally, between the Air Force and the Air Force.”