nine individuals, four portuguese, four Indians and one Pakistani, aged 27 and 49 year old, They will be judged, before a collective of judges of the Beja Court, for the practice of material co-authorship of the crimes of drug trafficking and criminal association for trafficking.
Na dawn 11 July 2021, The individual nine were arrested in Vila Nova de Milfontes, county of Odemira, with almost two tons of hashish.
According to the accusation order issued, in 26 June last year, By João Paulo Centeno, Public Prosecutor (MP) of the Central Department of Research and Criminal Action (DCIAP), The defendants had discharged, at the Barcas Fishing Port, of 1.880 kilos of hashish, distributed 56 bale, continuing 18.142 plates and 1000 SOURCK BOOKS. Second or document, Given the prices that was marketed the hashish in Portugal, with the sale of the product, the organization's financial income would be over ten million and eight hundred thousand euros.
In the accusation it is sustained that since the beginning of 2021 that all the defendants, residents in Vila Nova de Milfontes, including the five indostanic citizens who worked in greenhouses in red fruits, joined and collaborated with a criminal organization that was dedicated to marketing hashish produced and obtained in Morocco and transported to Europe by sea. Among the Portuguese one of the defendants used in the fishing faine the boat in which the skeptic bales were transported, that was owned by another of the defendants.
Since the beginning of 2021 that the group was followed by inspectors of the Judicial Police affected to the National Unit to Combat Trafficking (UNCT), that on the day preceding the trip of the high sea boat to carry the drug and discharge at the fishing port of Vila Nova de Milfontes, shifted dozens of operational ones that led to the success of the operation.
The PJ waited for the drug to be transported into a van and when the suspects were moving to where they would hide the burdens of hashish, the inspectors arrested almost all of the defendants having escaped the individual who managed the vessel, and that fled by sea to uncertain part, coming to be detained to posteriori.
In addition to the nearly two tons of drugs caught at dawn 11 July 2021, Four vehicles and several mobile phones were also seized, and only 1 February last year, and after the investigation was overwhelmed PJ managed to seize the vessel.
Despite having requested the custody for all the defendants, These have been waiting for judgment in freedom, only subject to the milder coercion measure, the term of identity and residence (TIR).
Landing 1.849 pounds of hashish in 2013, with 11 convicted defendants
Seventy-four years in prison for the eleven defendants, It was the decision made on the day 19 March 2015, by a Collective of Judges of the Court of Beja.
The group consisted of six Spanish and five Portuguese, and was accused of 12 June 2013, have landed 1.849 kilograms of hashish in Vila Nova de Milfontes.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
