Spanish police officials have
arrested a crew member of the Brazilian Air Force who carried three bags of
cocaine on an advance military plane of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president.
Bolsonaro, who was headed for the
G20 summit in Osaka, Tokyo, was scheduled to have a stopover in Lisbon.
In a statement released on
Wednesday, the Brazilian Air Force said in a statement the airman was arrested
on suspicion of drug trafficking.
Spanish customs officers were
reported to have discovered 37 packets of cocaine which weighed 39kg during a
search of the aircraft while the plane was waiting to continue its journey to
Tokyo.
“Obviously, given the quantity of
the drug he was carrying, he didn’t buy it on the corner and bring it, right?
He was working as a mule. A well-qualified mule, so to speak,” said Hamilton
Mourão, Brazil’s vice president said.
In a statement released on his
Twitter page, Bolsonaro said he has ordered immediate cooperation with Spanish
police.
“I immediately ordered the
defence minister to cooperate with Spanish police to establish the facts and
cooperate with every stage of the investigation, and to launch an investigation
by the military police,” he said.
“There are around 300,000 men and
women in the armed forces who are trained to uphold the highest principles of
ethics and morality. If the airman is found to have committed a crime, he will
be tried and convicted according to the law.”
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