This group reveals the PJ, took advantage of the “failures and vulnerabilities of the medical cannabis export and export control system” in Portugal to send drugs to illicit markets.
The Judicial Police dismantled an international criminal group of drug trafficking, having detained five people and seized more than seven tons of cannabis.
In a statement, the PJ reports that, in the context of “Operation Weed”, conducted searches from “north to south of the country”, on Madeira Islandand also informed that six other search warrants were served in Spain, one in Bulgaria and one in Cyprus.
This group, reveals to PJ, It was taken advantage of the “failures and vulnerabilities of the medical cannabis export and export control system” in Portugal, acquiring pharmaceutical companies and creating licensed societies to import and export medicinal cannabis and then, in reality, Send the drug to “illicit markets”using “fake documentation and certificates”.
The drug, the judiciary adds, was intended for several European and African markets.
Beyond the tons and cannabis, PJ also seized 411 thousand euros, 12 vehicles and 11 weapons.
In the “weed” operation, about 300 inspectors, 48 experts and 24 PJ security guards, as well as six prosecutors and three judges participated. The PJ also tells that the investigations will proceed.
