Sao Paulo

The 1000 kg drug bust investigated was the backbone of the Aeroton case and involved weeks of work starting with interception of shipments containing various commodities changing over time (sugar, dog food, bone food, truck parts) linked to a syndicate controlling a road in Sao Paulo used for transport.

“This is what I think the Commission has seen as the Aeroton case... We began stopping sugar, dog food, bone food, then car parts... The syndicate owns that road. So they needed to find something in large amounts...”

The police were continuously interdicting containers from the shipper Scania to intercept narcotics loading in Sao Paulo, and complained that either the shipping company or their staff were involved in loading the cocaine onto the trucks or containers.

“we kept on interdicting their containers. And we were saying to Scania, your risk is in Sao Paulo, because it is in Sao Paulo that they are loading the Cocaine. So either you are doing it, your staff itself is loading it in the trucks, or when you release that container to the harbour, they are doing it.”