Paulo Cunha / Lusa
Guards (one of the PJ chain) will have been paid to infiltrate drugs into arrests. Searches took place this Wednesday in 7 prisons.
Thirteen people, two of which prison guards, were arrested today in the scope of a police operation to prison establishments Lisbon, Alcoentre, Sintra and Funchal For suspicions of facilitating drug entry into arrests, the PJ said.
Concerned are suspected of the practice of crimes of corruption active and passive, Narcotic drug traffickingtrafficking in prohibited substances and methods, document falsification and bleaching, the Judicial Police (PJ) advances in a statement
The operation aimed “an alleged criminal project, practiced, among others, by prison guards facilitate the entry of illicit substances in prison establishments in exchange for advantage Patrimonial ”, says PJ.
Under the operation “Black Market”, triggered this night, was complied with 32 search warrants and seizure, 14 home and 18 non -home.
“The Directorate-General for Reinsertion and Prison Services provided all collaboration to the investigation developed, namely, through the Directorate of Security Services and the Prison Intervention and Security Group (GISP),” according to PJ.
Contacted by the Lusa agency, a DGRSP source had confirmed to Lusa searches to various prisons. According to the newspaper, they were 7 chains and an anabolic laboratory (Used by the accomplices of the criminal network) The targets of the searches.
According to this weekly, the guards arrested as a result of the operation “Black Market” work in the Prison of Lisbon (EPL) and in Prison Establishment of the Judicial Police (Eppj).
About the first, they had been suspicious for some time, narrates the newspaper, since “He carried a lifestyle far above the salary he received.”
The operation was accompanied by an instructional judge, a prosecutor and about 200 inspectors and experts from PJ. The PJ also says that investigations continue.
