PJ seizes 41 thousand doses of cocaine: 11 thousand discovered in a corpse in Lisbon | Drug dealing

The Judiciary Police seized 30,000 doses of cocaine from South America at Humberto Delgado Airport in Lisbon and another 11,000 doses discovered inside a corpse, the police force announced this Monday, March 25th.

In a statement, the PJ states that the 30,000 doses seized in an operation carried out last week were detected inside the bodies of two foreign citizens, who were detained and subject to preventive detention.

According to the PJ, around 11 thousand individual doses of cocaine were also seized, which were in capsules inside the body of a corpse. The drug was detected at the time of the autopsy at the Institute of Legal Medicine, which points to “the bursting of at least one of the capsules” as a possible cause of death.

In the statement, the PJ warns of “the high risks to human life” of this method of drug transport and that criminal networks “continue to recruit human couriers, often young adults in situations of great economic and/or emotional need, to transport significant amounts of drug inside the body”.

The police operation was carried out by the PJ’s National Anti-Trafficking Unit.