Member Brazil’s President Bolsonaro advance guards arraigned in Spain after finding 39 kg of cocaine in luggage
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President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has vowed to pursue drug traffickers relentlessly. So he was hard-pressed to explain how a presidential plane ended up carrying 86 pounds of cocaine across the Atlantic during an official trip.
Spanish officials discovered 37 packets of cocaine weighing a total of 39kg in baggage and officers from Spain’s Guardia Civil took a crew member into custody, a police spokesman in Seville said, adding that “the whole bag was filled with drugs”.
A 38-year-old airman appeared in court on Wednesday on charges of drug trafficking.
He was one of the crew members on their way to serve as the advance guard for Mr Bolsonaro during the forthcoming G20 summit in Osaka, the Guardia Civil added. The aircraft coming from Brazil landed in Spain on Tuesday afternoon, and departed for Japan later in the day with the rest of the crew on board.
Mr Bolsonaro, a former army captain, said on social media late on Tuesday that he “immediately ordered the defence minister to co-operate with the Spanish police to establish the facts and co-operate with every stage of the investigation”.
