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Four suspects in drug trafficking have been remanded in custody after being detained by the Polícia Judiciária (PJ) while aboard a narco‑submarine carrying nearly nine tonnes of cocaine.
Three South Americans were intercepted aboard a narco-submarine 230 nautical miles from the Azores. The Portuguese Criminal Police were surprised by the amount of cocaine, which could be a record.
It was carrying a record eight tonnes of cocaine.
PJ police have ‘done it again’: they have intercepted a ‘narco-submarine’ (or ‘semisubmersible’ craft manufactured especially for drug smuggling) on the high seas, seizing 300 ‘bales of cocaine’. A press The post PJ police foil ‘narco-submarine’ transporting 300 bales of cocaine appeared first on Portugal Resident.
The PJ, with support from the Navy and the Air Force, arrested four people who were aboard a narco-submarine carrying 300 bales of cocaine. It is the third seizure of such a vessel in less than a year.
