US EditionPortugal Opens a Submarine with Almost Nine Tons of Cocaine Coming From Latin America
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The four drug suspects who were arrested by PJ were in prison were in prison when they followed in a drug submarine carrying nearly nine tons of cocaine.
The Portuguese authorities announced the presence of about nine tons of cocaine on board a semi-submersible ship intercepted along the Azores archipelago. On board the submarine, which departed from Latin America, there were three Colombians and a Venezuelan. "This is the largest cocaine seizure already carried out in Portugal," said a court police spokesman this afternoon.
One Venezuelan and three Colombians were arrested in a narcosubmarine intercepted on Friday, January 23, by the Portuguese authorities on the high seas, about 230 nautical miles of the Azores archipelago, which transported more than 9 tons of cocaine, according to estimates, which could turn it into “the largest cocaine seizure ever made” in Portuguese territory. This was confirmed on Monday 26 to EFE by the director of the National Drug Traffic…
Among the semi-submersible images that, on Saturday afternoon, accumulated 35 loads of cocaine - after having been removed from its interior 265 - and from the action of the Portuguese authorities, on the high sea, in the Atlantic Ocean, there are several moments that, in the above gallery, you can see about the Operation Adamastor. The operation, which took all 86 hours, made four arrests, came from South America. A Venezuelan and three Colombi…
“They have been able to recover about 265 cocaine loads, in a total amount that we estimate in close proximity to the nine tons, which – to be confirmed – will therefore be the greatest presence of cocaine never operated in national territory –” said at a press conference at the PJ headquarters in Lisbon, the director of the National Drug Traffic Control Unit (UNCTE) of the institution. Arthur Vaz said that there were 300 cocaine loads on the sh…
There were almost nine tons of coca in it.
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