Port of Sines
The Judicial Police (PJ) has detained four people on Tuesday, in the dozens of search in Greater Lisbon, Setúbal, Sines and Leiria, on suspicions of corruption of customs employees. At stake is the entrance to Cocaine Europe from Latin America.
PJ made dozens of search this Tuesday for Suspected corruption in the Tax Authority (AT).
At issue are employees of the suspected customs of receiving bribes from traffickers to “Closing your eyes” to drug containers from Latin America.
According to PJ, four people were detained, two of which are employees of.
The same document states that 15 defendants were constituted and seized more than half a million euros in cash, 10 vehicles and five firearms and others. Judicial source advanced to Lusa that Five defendants are officials of the AT (including both detainees).
According to the, they were found 264 kilos of drugs inside a container in the port of Sines. With bean legally marketed, there was 11 disguised drug bags.
Operation Porthos investigates criminal organizations dedicated to exporting high quantities of cocaine from Latin America.
“These criminal organizations use national maritime ports as a gateway to the European continent, concealed in various products packaged in containers,” adds the PJ.
The investigation results from international police cooperation and at issue suspected active and passive corruption, drug trafficking and capital bleaching.
According to, the PJ suspected that employees of the tax authority in customs will have been bribed by the First Capital Command (CCP)from Brazil, and Colombian cartels to let the drug pass.
O is one of largest mafia groups in Latin America. It emerged three decades ago in the prisons of São Paulo and has been present throughout the Brazilian territory and much of South America, especially Paraguay and Bolivia.
The operation aimed at the execution of 32 search warrantsof which 14 households and 18 non -home, to collect complementary evidence. On the ground, they were 150 inspectors and experts from PJ and four magistrates of the Public Prosecution Service (MP).
