Cargo of Cocaine in Animal Skins Leads to Portuguese Police Captain

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The Portuguese authorities have arrested a police captain and an accomplice suspected of leading a drug trafficking operation that imported at least three containers of animal skins with 1.5 metric tons of cocaine hidden between the putrefacted layers of raw skin. A spokesman for the Northern Region’s Judicial Police said on Thursday that the stench had complicated the work of the investigation teams by removing and weighing the drugs. The skins…

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Captain Ricardo Portal, who commanded the GNR Territorial Detachment in Fafe until late last year, was arrested by the PJ while unloading a ton and a half of cocaine in Fafe and was remanded in pre-trial detention, awaiting trial. Ricardo Portal, 34, who has already been taken to the Tomar Military Prison, according to a decision by the Porto Criminal Investigation Court (TIC), is strongly indicted for aggravated transcontinental drug trafficki…

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Official was arrested by the PJ and held in a preventive prison. Suspect set up a company in Fafe to receive containers from Latin America controlled by international cartels.

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One of the prisoners was an ex-military of the GNR. Drug was detected in the sequencing of a taxalysis to the containers in Port de Leix.

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More than one tons of cocaine hidden in containers with animal skins Two men were arrested by the Judiciary Police.