A operation “Valhalla” took place following a warning from the Danish authorities and, as it was international drug trafficking by sea, it also included the collaboration do Maritime Analysis and Operations Center – Narcotics.
The alleged drug traffickers arrested by the Judiciary Police (PJ) in Portimão as part of the “Valhalla” operation used a hearse to transport cocaine in the region without arousing suspicion, the police force revealed this Friday.
“During the different phases, [essa organização] what he carried out was discreet transport using a hearse, which moved the drugs between the vessel and the retreat house”, said, in a press conference at the PJ headquarters, in Lisbon, criminal investigation coordinator Vítor Ananias.
According to the person responsible for National Unit to Combat Drug Trafficking (UNCTE) that PJ, a drugs were unloaded at Portimão marina and then transported to “a residence close” to the city, presumably with final destination to Denmarkwhere are they from? national nine of the 10 detained in the Algarve municipality.
O another detainee in Portugal is nationality Leta and, in the joint operation with the Maritime Police and the Danish and Spanish authorities, it was also woman detained in CopenhagenDenmark.
Os suspects have between 20 and 65 years old and would travel to Portugal “exclusively for the purpose of carrying out to the unloading of cocaine transported by the pleasure craft entering the Portimão marina” e stored in the retreat house located nearby.
In total, there were 1,384 kilos of cocaine seizedwhich will come from Latin America and will have been transferred on the high seas from another vessel for which he would unload the drugs at the Portimão marina, said Vítor Ananias.
A operation “Valhalla” took place “in the last few days” following a warning in December 2025 from the Danish authorities and, as it involved international drug trafficking by sea, it also included the collaboration do Maritime Analysis and Operations Center – Narcotics (MAOC-N, its official acronym).
In addition to cocaine, there were seized in police action two boats and three vehiclesthe PJ said in a statement on Thursday.
Os 10 detainees in Portugal will be heardthis Friday, in first interrogation by a judgefor the eventual application of coercive measureswhich can lead to preventive detention.
