Beja: Two "mules" ordered to 13 years in prison.
Two individuals were sentenced to 13 years in prison for drug trafficking. defined as “mules”, They carried in the stomach, from Morocco, 196 acorns of hashish.
Two drug couriers, the so-called "mules", Portuguese nationals residing in Upper Seixalinho, Barreiro county, They were yesterday (Wednesday) convicted by a Collective Court of Beja 13 years in prison, Hair crime of drug trafficking.
António Fernandes, 50 year old, in custody, He was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months, while Paul Fernandez 38 year old, She heard him being applied 5 years and 6 months, continuing subject to periodic presentations to the authorities in the area of ​​residence, prohibition to leave the country and contact with the other accused.
The two men were arrested by GNR, during an inadvertent operation, the night of the last day 11 May, on the border of Vila Verde Ficalho, Serpa county, when they are returning from Marracos, transported drugs in stomach.
After arrest, the two individuals were taken to the emergency room of Beja Hospital, where expelled 196 acorns of hashish, weighing 1.300 grams, enough for the preparation of 2.599 individual doses.
Reading the judgment Vitor Maneta judge noted that this was a "trip planned, without passports, num context of transnational and intercontinental traffic ", which aggravated the penalties.
On the day of arrest, addition to the drug, They were also seized the vehicle, where drug couriers were made to transport and 1.000 euro cash.
The two individuals, which were already being investigated in Lisbon by drug trafficking, They had no passports, but at the intersection of data with counterparts in Spain, the authorities realized that the accused had made more than four dozen trips to Morocco.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
