Group that builds “fast boats” for drug trafficking dismantled in Portugal and Spain
The Judiciary Police, the Judiciary Police, a civil organization, was criminally designated for the construction of an organization, allegedly used largely in particular drugs which is a fast transport agency in Europe, through Portugal announced.
In a statement, the PJ states that the operation was carried out in cooperation with the Guardia Civilpanhola in different regions of Portugal and Spain, and included searches of eight and warehouses in Alto Minho, on the south bank of the Tagus in Lisbon and in the Algarve, “to which were added to similar actions in different regions of Spain”.
In Portugal, “it was organized in a Spanish competition”, having been arrested a 39-year-old Portuguese businessman, whom “the criminal authorities blame for smuggling with drug trafficking”, and who has already been present at the Court of Appeal of Guimarães, in the district of Braga, staying “to the measure of coercion of obligation in housing with an electric bracelet”.
According to the PJ, 72 suspected members of this organization were arrested in Spain.
As a search in Portugal led to the seizure of 21 speedboats “in different stages of production, it is already fully equipped with four 300 HP engines (‘horse power’)”, a 225 HP engine, 10 speedboat hulls, six molds, money and diverse dispute with the criminal activity under investigation.
But, in total, the authorities of the countries seized 40 of the vessels, “a dozen equipped and available for immediate use by the organization”.
Last possible sensations of searching and apprehending an organization in Portugal, with many days of actions taking place during the process of searching and apprehending Portugal Spain”, adds a PJ.
The operation between entities in Spain targeted “a group of operations in operations carried out in Spain which, considering the operation of operations in Spain of operations in which it flew in Spain 20 considering the companies operating in Spain, to whom it flew on orders from the vessels”.
The prepared vessels were prepared with different water materials, “different points of the Portuguese coast were prepared already loaded with large and tenders in selected bids for the Portuguese collection and transport of narcotic drugs”.
“In the Northern Police Operation, as well as the Directorate of the Northern Directorate of the Civil Police of Spain”,
On Wednesday, a police source told Lusa that the joint operation was taking place in Alto Minho, namely in Valença, with searches for construction sites for speedboats used in drug trafficking.
The newspaper La Voz de Galicia said on Wednesday that the Civil Guard had started a mega-operation to combat drug trafficking in the province of Pontevedra with searches also carried out outside the region of Galicia and in Portugal.
The operation, which began on Wednesday morning, involved the participation of “dozens of agents distributed across operations in Ourense, Portugal, Catalonia, Andalusia.