She is 79 years old.. the arrest of a Spanish woman who leads a drug gang in Portugal

A 79-year-old Spanish woman suspected of leading a drug trafficking network has been arrested in Portugal, Spanish authorities said.

According to the Spanish Civil Guard, this woman, who is long past retirement age, ran a group that imported cocaine from the Dominican Republic to Portugal, according to Agence France-Presse.

She was arrested in Villa Real in northern Portugal with two other Spaniards at the age of twenty-six and six, in the context of an operation carried out by the Spanish and Portuguese security forces.

“They were smuggling drugs into the Iberian Peninsula through Portuguese ports through a company established in accordance with the law to import coral from the Dominican Republic,” the statement said. “The 79-year-old woman was the leader of the group, the director of the front company and its founder.” .

This group was selling drugs in bulk to other dealers who marketed cocaine, especially in southern Spain.

The Iberian Peninsula is a major entry point for smuggled cocaine into Europe, and traffickers do not hesitate to resort to innovative methods and strategies that sometimes amount to Hollywood movie scripts.