Tax and Customs Authority seizes cocaine at the Port of Sines

The AT - Tax and Customs Authority seized 264.4 kilos of cocaine in the Port of Sines, Setúbal district, which was hidden inside a container with bags of beans from Brazil.

The drug was detected by the Sines Customs Delegation, as part of the actions to control the external border of the European Union, inside 11 bags, inside a container coming from the port of Paranaguá, in Brazil, said AT, in a statement.

The bags containing cocaine were placed “behind the container doors” and “on top of the legally declared merchandise”, consisting of bags of beans, revealed that authority, adding that “the 'rip-on/rip-off' method was used, a technique used to disguise drugs in legitimate merchandise.

According to AT, the container “had as its final destination the Port of Sines, where it was unloaded and where the inspection and seizure took place” of the 11 bags of cocaine and with a “total gross weight of 264,400 kilos”.

This action “resulted from the local application of risk analysis criteria based on methods and techniques developed and implemented by AT in the fight against fraud, customs and tax evasion and illicit trafficking”.

The narcotic product seized by the AT was handed over to the Judicial Police, in its capacity as the police body responsible for the criminal investigation of drug trafficking, in accordance with current legislation.

The AT - Tax and Customs Authority seized 264.4 kilos of cocaine in the Port of Sines, Setúbal district, which was hidden inside a container with bags of beans from Brazil.

The drug was detected by the Sines Customs Delegation, as part of the actions to control the external border of the European Union, inside 11 bags, inside a container coming from the port of Paranaguá, in Brazil, said AT, in a statement.

The bags containing cocaine were placed “behind the container doors” and “on top of the legally declared merchandise”, consisting of bags of beans, revealed that authority, adding that “the 'rip-on/rip-off' method was used, a technique used to disguise drugs in legitimate merchandise.

According to AT, the container “had as its final destination the Port of Sines, where it was unloaded and where the inspection and seizure took place” of the 11 bags of cocaine and with a “total gross weight of 264,400 kilos”.

This action “resulted from the local application of risk analysis criteria based on methods and techniques developed and implemented by AT in the fight against fraud, customs and tax evasion and illicit trafficking”.

The narcotic product seized by the AT was handed over to the Judicial Police, in its capacity as the police body responsible for the criminal investigation of drug trafficking, in accordance with current legislation.

The AT - Tax and Customs Authority seized 264.4 kilos of cocaine in the Port of Sines, Setúbal district, which was hidden inside a container with bags of beans from Brazil.

The drug was detected by the Sines Customs Delegation, as part of the actions to control the external border of the European Union, inside 11 bags, inside a container coming from the port of Paranaguá, in Brazil, said AT, in a statement.

The bags containing cocaine were placed “behind the container doors” and “on top of the legally declared merchandise”, consisting of bags of beans, revealed that authority, adding that “the 'rip-on/rip-off' method was used, a technique used to disguise drugs in legitimate merchandise.

According to AT, the container “had as its final destination the Port of Sines, where it was unloaded and where the inspection and seizure took place” of the 11 bags of cocaine and with a “total gross weight of 264,400 kilos”.

This action “resulted from the local application of risk analysis criteria based on methods and techniques developed and implemented by AT in the fight against fraud, customs and tax evasion and illicit trafficking”.

The narcotic product seized by the AT was handed over to the Judicial Police, in its capacity as the police body responsible for the criminal investigation of drug trafficking, in accordance with current legislation.