The twin-engine Gulfstream IV model, registered XA-SBT, was carrying 78 packages of cocaine, she said. He was from Venezuela and not Mexico as indicated Saturday by a police source.
Five people on board, including the pilot, were arrested, according to PJ. They are two Mexicans, Colombian, Brazilian and Ecuadorian.
They will be handed over to prosecutors on Monday for questioning to impose coercive measures, the press release said.
The capture took place on Saturday at 1:46pm (local and GMT).
According to the PJ, the operation was carried out in close cooperation with the US State Department, the National Navy, the National Guard and general intelligence agents.
“West Africa has a long history of air traffic, with jets stopping at the coast. But this seizure is the largest made on an airplane in more than ten years,” said François Patuel, head of investigations at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), on Sunday in a publication on x.
This seizure is “the biggest since the beginning of the year,” said Quitole Correia, a member of the anti-drug unit at Osvaldo Vieira airport, on Saturday.
Guinea-Bissau is usually presented by security actors as a crossing point in West Africa for cocaine coming from South America to Europe.
Instability and poverty have favored the establishment of drug traffickers in this former Portuguese colony.
2024-09-08 23:03:38
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