Since the first story last month, details have revealed that the two Portuguese arrested for the trafficking of cocaine into Indonesia are not students.
One is Fernando Santos, a 37 year-old surfer from Cascais, the other a much young man, Rui Viana, from Madeira, who was apparently lured into flying into Jacarta with the drugs as a way of clearing his ‘debts’.
Rui Viana’s girlfriend is pregnant and he recently lost his job, tabloid Correio da Manhã has reported. Be this as it may, Ade Ary Indradi, the spokesman for Jacarta Metropolitan Police, has stressed that it is up to a judge to decide the men’s punishment, which could run from five to 20 years behind bars, could be life imprisonment or even death by firing squad.
As reports in Portugal stress, the men have asked to be able to serve any jail time in Portugal, but it is not guaranteed that this will happen.
