The Maritime Police today collected 124 fuel bins that were drifting on the sea south of the coast of Albufeira, in the district of Faro, suspected of being used by criminal networks. "The seized vessels have characteristics frequently associated with logistic operations used by maritime drug trafficking networks, in particular for the supply of high-speed vessels in the high seas", the National Maritime Authority (NAA) highlighted in a statemen…
Vessels seized south of the coast of Albufeira may be linked to maritime drug trafficking networks and constitute a danger to navigation, both at material and environmental level.