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Nine arrested in Luanda for cocaine trafficking from the international airport

The Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) has arrested a network of nine elements, all of Angolan nationality, accused of facilitating the exit, of planes, of cocaine coming from Brazil, as announced this Thursday.

: Lusa
Lusa  

According to the SIC general spokesman, criminal superintendent Manuel Halaiwa, the principal in Brazil, still to be identified, had a dealer to whom he gave instruction, 50 minutes before the aircraft landed in the Angolan capital, to keep the drug in the bathroom.

Manuel Halaiwa said, in statements to the Lusa agency, that the operation had been going on for years, without being able to determine exactly how long.

"It is not possible to determine, because they are old airport employees, at least two years ago, but one of them eight years ago," he said.

Manuel Halaiwa said it was the first time that the SIC was able to find in flagrante the withdrawal of the drug from the plane, the result of a thorough investigation, intrigued by the existence of drugs in the market, despite the tight control at the exit of the international airport of Luanda.

"In flagrante delito it was possible to detect inside the aircraft some drug that was about to be transported abroad, 6.84 kilograms of cocaine type drug," he said.

The operation carried out by the central anti-narcotics directorate and criminal investigation department of the Luanda International Airport found that the drug was coming in straps, which were introduced on board the plane into the bathrooms and their mobile compartments.

"With the plane already on the ground, the main mentor, who has the drugs removed from the plane to his accomplice, who is outside Luanda's international airport, is one of the cleaning staff, who is guided by the chief of the drivers' shift, who ensures that the drugs leave the plane in the garbage and transport them out of the airport," he explained.

The group is composed of eight employees of the company Ghassist, which operates at the international airport of Luanda, of which five are bus drivers, board drivers and ramp drivers, three aircraft interior cleaners and a drug seller, aged between 25 and 45 years.

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