This Thursday, the Brazilian Federal Police launched an operation during which they seized 126 million reais ($26 million) in assets and bank deposits of an international drug trafficking network.

This is the second phase of the so-called “Operation Tamoyos”, which for two years investigated a group of traffickers transporting cocaine on the road to Vitoria, capital of the state of Espirito Santo (southeast), from where he was sent by boat to Europe.

Federal police said investigators found that traffickers used “small fishing boats” and “professional divers” to attach drug shipments to the hulls of cargo ships.

In an operation this Thursday, Brazilian authorities dismantled a “sophisticated” network used to “conceal and disguise assets derived from criminal activities, especially transnational drug trafficking.”

In this context, a group of 50 agents carried out court orders to seize assets and deposits in bank accounts amounting to 126 million reais ($26 million).

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Among the confiscated property: “two luxury apartments on the beach of Barra da Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro, “house” in the tourist town of Angra dos Reis, also in the state of Fluminense; high-end cars and jet skis.

The property was registered in the name of third parties for the purpose of “perpetuating the existence of a criminal organization by concealing assets.”

(EFE)