Flat in Lisbon “functioned exclusively as laboratory”
PJ judicial police have dismantled a clandestine drug production laboratory operating out of a flat in Lisbon.
The discovery came during the operation underway targeting several prisons and certain prison guards.
According to Lusa, a source for the PJ said the flat functioned “exclusively as a laboratory”.
Thirteen people, two of whom are prison guards, were arrested earlier today as part of the Black Markey / Mercado Negro operation – which is still ongoing and which has targeted prisons in Lisbon, Alcoentre, Carregueira, Sintra and Funchal (Madeira).
Those arrested are suspected of committing the offences of active and passive corruption, drug trafficking, trafficking in prohibited substances and methods, forgery of documents and money laundering.
As a statement by the PJ has explained, the operation targeted “an alleged criminal project, carried out, among others, by prison guards who facilitate the entry of illicit substances into prisons in exchange for a financial advantage”.
In all 32 search and seizure warrants have been served.
The Directorate-General for Reintegration and Prison Services is said to have provided “full cooperation to the investigation, namely through the Directorate for Security Services and the Prison Intervention and Security Group (GISP),” the PJ adds in its statement. ND
Source material: Lusa
