Brazil: Police launch operation against international drug trafficking

The Federal Police launched this morning (Oct 18) an operation to restrain organized crime and international drug trafficking. The so-called Genesis Operation is serving 20 warrants, including three preventive detention and seventeen search and seizure warrants.

The investigations began in November 2021, when 1.6 tons of cocaine were seized on three different occasions. The first one was in Hamburg, Germany, and the others in Santos, São Paulo state, with shipments destined to Antwerp, Belgium, and Durban, South Africa.

The police ordered the sequestration of all real estate, vehicles, and values deposited in bank accounts, and financial investments on behalf of seven people investigated. They will be indicted for the crimes of international drug trafficking, and association for trafficking, whose sentences range from 10 to 25 years in prison.

"The criminals acted in the logistics chain of cross-border trafficking of narcotic substances, focused on the stages of the export process of licit cargo (contracting, stuffing, and transport), in which high quantities of cocaine destined for countries in Europe and Africa were introduced, in a hidden way and with enhanced means," the Federal Police said.