PJ contest “array of weapons” acquired through the internet – Express

The Judicial Police (PJ) announced this Thursday that it seized "a plethora of weapons", which were acquired through the internet, many of them transformed and re-sold, in an operation that took place across the country and finished with nine detainees.

In a press conference held in PJ, the chief inspector Vitor Matos of the National Unity Against Terrorism (UNCT) this power of criminal investigation, said that of the nine detainees, four will be brought before a judge, having been delivered the remaining five, after you heard the Public Prosecutor and questioned by the PJ.

The nine detainees had no connection among themselves, only bought weapons over the Internet, in the same company with headquarters in a european country.

The detainees had "how 'modus operandi' to purchase and sales of weapons of The class, or weapons that were of fire, and then scrap, and which were sold by a european company, via the internet," explained Vitor Matos.

The chief inspector of the PJ said that some of the detainees "bought weapons class, type, batons, brass knuckles gas or pepper, while others were buying weapons that were reproductions of firearms and that can easily be turned back on real weapons".

Vitor Matos stated that there were two forms of action: the purchase of guns for resale, and have "an enrichment illegitimate", and the "curious who purchased the bat and the 'spray' to have in your home and, many times, unaware that his acquisition and possession is a crime".

In the context of the operation, which took place on Wednesday, the judiciary police carried out 30 home searches, and seized, according to the chief inspector of the PJ, "a panoply of arms, from pistols-machine guns, and weapons disabled with the setting of the military, weapons of alarm, 'white' and sticks extensible.

however, advanced, the majority of them was "susceptible of amendment of firearms", that is, re – "real weapons and lethal".

"The intention was to turn them into weapons of real fire", he said, noting that many of the weapons are of the caliber of the war and with the power of fire high.

The research, which started more than a year, started with a cooperation of the international police, having the PJ developed the operation based on the information collected from the company, through a letters rogatory.

"we Went to this country, the company has been contacted and we saw the records of all the buyers of the Portuguese citizens who were located in national territory and who have acquired weapons over the internet," he explained.

according To Vítor Matos, the judiciary police identified all the citizens residing in Portugal who bought weapons over the internet to this company.

The weapons arrived in Portugal through the airline companies and the payments were the most diverse.

The chief inspector of the judicial police said that the investigation led to the conclusion that "some of the weapons were purchased abroad, came to Portugal, where they were changed, and were re-sold via the internet to the foreigner."