VIDEO: 79-year-old Spanish woman held on suspicion of leading a drug trafficking network
- 06 Aug 2021
Gulf Today Report
A 79-year-old Spanish woman, was arrested on suspicion of leading a drug trafficking network, in Portugal, according to the Spanish authorities.
The Spanish Civil Guard said the women who runs a gang that imports cocaine from the Dominican Republic to Portugal.
She was arrested in a Villa Real in northern Portugal with other 66-year-old Spanish, in an operation by the Spanish and Portuguese security forces.
A statement issued by the Civil Guard said: "They smuggled drugs to the Iberian Peninsula through Portuguese ports through a company working according to the law for the coral importation from the Dominican Republic."
The statement added the 79-year-old woman was the leader of the gang and the director of the company.
In November last year, a submarine conveying a load of cocaine worth €100 million from Latin America was intercepted in the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia near Portugal.
