The stench had complicated the work of investigating teams as they removed and weighed the drugs
The skins had been packed fresh in Latin America and arrived in Portugal after weeks at sea
LISBON: Portuguese authorities have arrested a police captain and an accomplice suspected of running a drug operation that imported at least three containers of animal skins with 1.5 metric tons of cocaine hidden between the putrid layers of untanned skins.
A spokesperson at the Judicial Police for the Northern Region said on Thursday the stench had complicated the work of investigating teams as they removed and weighed the drugs.
The skins had been packed fresh in Latin America and arrived in Portugal after weeks at sea in a “highly putrefied state,” the spokesperson said.
