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The GNR seized some 23,000 cannabis plants on Monday, in the municipality of Almeirim, in Santarém, as part of an investigation for the crime of extortion, which lasted about a month.
In a statement, the Santarém Territorial Command reported that the suspects were “linked to other illegal actions, such as the planting, cultivation and sale of cannabis plants.” On September 1, a 35-year-old man was arrested and another 50-year-old was charged with drug trafficking, GNR said.
According to the authorities, the seizure of the 23 thousand cannabis plants that weigh 14 tons, through the Almeirim Territorial Post and the Santarém Criminal Investigation Center (NIC), corresponds to “the largest ever made in Portugal and one of the largest in Europe”.
In the course of police investigations, two search and seizure warrants were carried out at two companies that owned agricultural land and greenhouses.
In addition to the cannabis plants, 17 bags of cannabis weighing 91 kilograms, eight containers of growing material and fertilizers, two rolls of plastic mesh for drying plants, a mobile phone, a laptop, a mechanical atomizer to apply products with pharmaceutical use, an irrigation equipment and a fertilizer spreader.
The events resulting from the operation, which took place in the municipalities of Almeirim and Salvaterra de Magos, were referred to the Judicial Court of Santarém.
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