Brazil’s Federal Police, working with the Federal Revenue Service, arrested a man carrying 8 kg of cocaine at Rio de Janeiro International Airport in the early hours of Tuesday, October 27.
The passenger planned to fly to Pakistan on a route with a connection in the United Arab Emirates.
Officers from the Federal Police’s special airport unit worked with the Federal Revenue Service intelligence service to identify the passenger and find the drugs hidden along the sides and at the bottom of his checked suitcase.
