• The agents inspected the passenger's luggage using an X-ray scanner and discovered 8 packages in a false bottom

• He came from Sao Paulo (Brazil) and had made a stopover in Paris (France)

August 27, 2024.- Officials of the Customs Surveillance Service of the Tax Agency, together with civil guards from the Tax and Border Section of the Bilbao airport, have arrested a passenger at the Bilbao airport for a drug trafficking crime.

Investigators from the Civil Guard and the Customs Surveillance Service acting as State Tax Guard, under the functional dependency of the Regional Customs and Excise Department of the AEAT of the Basque Country, carry out, among other actions, daily inspections of passengers and luggage according to preventive risk criteria at Bilbao airport.

On August 19, a luggage inspection was carried out using an X-ray scanner on a traveler from Sao Paulo (Brazil) via Paris (France). Eight brightly colored packages were discovered inside her suitcase, which, when tested in a drug test, tested positive for cocaine.

The packages were found in a false bottom of the suitcase and had a final weight of 3,614 grams of cocaine.

For these events, the passenger was arrested for the commission of an alleged crime against public health in the field of drug trafficking, and was subsequently placed at the disposal of the Bilbao Court on Duty.

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For more information, please contact the OPC of the Civil Guard in Bizkaia, on the telephones 605891575 / 627213802 or the Regional Customs and Excise Department. Basque Country at 944255058.