Former agent of the Port PSP sentenced to eight and a half years for trafficking

Um former agent of the PSP of Porto was today sentenced to eight years and six months in prison for integrating, since 2022, a drug trafficking network.

The collective of judges of the São João Novo Court, in Porto, also condemned the former police, who is under preventive arrest, to pay 240 thousand euros to the Portuguese State.

In addition to this suspect, the case has 11 other defendants, of whom six were sentenced to imprisonment between six years and six months and seven years and six months in prison.

The remaining five defendants were acquitted.

According to the prosecution of the Public Prosecutor (MP), this group imported drugs, particularly from Brazil, hidden in agricultural machinery or in hulls of ships whose destination was the Port of Leixões, in Matosinhos, in the district of Porto.

When the drug was concealed in the hulls of the ships, they were then hired divers to remove it from the site, he added.

The alleged group always knew where the drug was, since, along with that, they came GPS trackers, signaled.

During the arrest of seven of the defendants, in May 2024, the Judiciary Police (JP) announced, in a statement, that they were part of “the main drug trafficking networks in the north of the country”.

“ This is an organized criminal structure, with branches in South America, which was responsible for importing, transporting and delivering illicit substances. The group, considered dangerous, was feared by its violent methods and the use of firearms ", at the time, the PJ.

At the beginning of the trial, on September 22, the former police did not make statements in court.