Black market currency trader accuses police of ‘getting things wrong’
‘Incriminating conversations’ referred to ‘legal investments’ Convicted black market ‘money-changer’ Nelma Kodama, arrested at Lisbon’s Ritz Hotel 10 days ago, claims to have nothing to do with a criminal network
Brit stabbed to death in Albufeira apartment complex
Killing follows “night out on town” with holiday flatmate A British tourist (see update below), aged between 25-30, died yesterday, after being found unconscious with multiple stab wounds in an
14 high-speed ‘narco boats’ seized
Portuguese and Spanish police swoop on Viana do Castelo boat builders 14 super-fast narco boats worth millions of euros have been seized after police moved in on boat building concerns
Drug mafias hire “professional assassins”
Lisbon scene of two recent ‘settling of scores’ PJ and PSP police are following the ‘settling of scores’ between drug traffickers in the city with increasing concern. Expresso reports there
PJ cracks down on Chinese extortion and drug trafficking racket
PJ police in Porto have detained six Chinese nationals “who terrorised shop keepers of the same nationality, demanding payments which reached €5,000 per month”, reports Correio da Manhã this morning.
GNR seize 700 kilos of hashish at Fuseta port
GNR seized around 700 kilos of hashish at the Fuseta fishing port in Olhão on Sunday (February 6). The local coastal control unit detected a boat travelling without lights near
Operation “Tempestade” ends with almost a ton of cocaine at bottom of sea
PJ judicial police “Operation Tempestade” (Tempest) ended on Thursday with almost a ton of cocaine at the bottom of the ocean, 150 miles south of Madeira. The plan had been
28 bales of hash wash up on Algarve beaches in three days
Maritime Police seized a further nine bales of hash, weighing a total of 315kg, from several beaches in Albufeira and Lagoa last weekend. According to maritime police in Albufeira and
Drug mules are back: easing of pandemic travel restrictions increases trafficking using commercial flights
Drug mules are back using Lisbon airport. This is the message today as in just three days last week (Friday to Sunday) the PJ’s trafficking combat unit UNCTE detained three
Commando ‘blood diamond’ scandal: ringleader ‘refuses to give up list of diplomats and generals allegedly involved
The commando ‘blood diamond’ smuggling scandal is becoming more and more convoluted as politicians now are complaining that this is (yet another) story ‘full of holes’. PSD leader Rui Rio