As he arrived on a flight from his native Guinea-Bissau, a magistrate was arrested for alleged drug trafficking. The news has been confirmed by the ministry of foreign affairs of Guinea-Bissau, which hasn’t gone into much detail. The magistrate is understood to have flown into Lisbon on Sunday and remains ‘in preventive custody’. Coincidentally, only a month ago international media was discussing the fact that Guinea-Bissau “has been considered a nerve center for international drug trafficking for years”, in the context that the son of the former president of the country had been found trafficking drugs “for a very specific reason: to finance a coup that would eventually lead him to the presidency of his native country, where he intended to establish a drug regime”. As far back as 2007, news reports were highlighting how “high level officials in Guinea-Bissau” were implicated in drug trafficking.
