Left: Police divers find cocaine on a ship reportedly destined for South Africa. Right: Traffickers operating via Brazil use divers to hide drugs in the hulls of ships.
It turns out that the diver was, in fact, Donati and that when he was detained, he may have been heading to Durban, which international narcotraffickers seem to favour, using its seaport for smuggling operations. According to a Federal Police statement, the February cocaine crackdown took place after drugs were spotted “floating in Santa Catarina waters”.
The Brazilian court papers from 2023, which provide details about Donati, relate to the detention of another suspect, Gercy Izaias Mendes Junior.Those papers say Donati had travelled to Portugal three times between November 2021 and the end of 2022.
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