PORTUGAL: Police ”find cocaine in traveller”s padded pants”

Police in Portugal have detained a man at Lisbon’s international airport accused of carrying 1kg (2.2lb) of cocaine in fake buttocks. Local media said the Brazilian citizen had arrived on a flight from the city of Belém, in northern Brazil. It was not immediately clear how police discovered the case.  A second man, suspected of […]

Police in Portugal have detained a man at Lisbon’s international airport accused of carrying 1kg (2.2lb) of cocaine in fake buttocks.

Local media said the Brazilian citizen had arrived on a flight from the city of Belém, in northern Brazil.

It was not immediately clear how police discovered the case. 

A second man, suspected of being the recipient of the drug, was detained at the city’s train station. The suspects are aged 32 and 40, police say.