Passenger with diplomatic passport detained with 140,000 individual doses of cocaine at the airport

In fact, this Friday, a judicial source told the Lusa agency that Guinean deputy Manuel Irénio Nascimento Lopes, who was detained on Tuesday at Lisbon airport with 13 kilograms of cocaine, was placed in pre-trial detention.

According to the same source, the defendant was present for his first judicial interrogation at the Lisbon Criminal Instruction Court, which decreed the most serious measure of coercion: preventive detention.

The deputy of the Movement for Democratic Alternation (MADEM-G 15) Manuel Irénio Nascimento Lopes, aged 57, was detected on Tuesday at Humberto Delgado Airport, in Lisbon, after a flight by the Portuguese air carrier TAP from Bissau, with 13 kilos of cocaine hidden in luggage.

Before this, prosecutor Eduardo Mancanha, who was on leave to study in Portugal for more than three years, was arrested on April 21 “in flagrante delicto” in possession of two kilograms of a product presumed to be drugs , according to a statement from the Superior Council of Judiciary of the Guinean Public Ministry, issued on the 25th, in which his suspension from duties was announced.

The President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, regretted Mancanha’s arrest, stressing that the case is being dealt with between the judiciaries of both countries.