MADRID: A soldier travelling with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s advance team for the G20 summit in Japan has been arrested in Spain after 39 kilogrammes of cocaine were found in his luggage, Spanish police said on Wednesday.
He was arrested on Tuesday after the Brazilian military plane he was travelling in made a stopover in Seville in southwestern Spain on its way to Japan, said a spokeswoman for Spain’s Guardia Civil police force.
"His suitcase contained only drugs," she added. A court ordered on Wednesday that the soldier, accused of drug trafficking, be held in preventative detention. Bolsonaro, who has promised a tough stance on gangs which profit from drug trafficking, confirmed the arrest on Twitter on Tuesday, saying he had ordered Brazil’s defence ministry to cooperate with Spanish police. "If the soldier is found to have committed a crime, he will be tried and convicted according to the law," he added. The summit of the Group of 20 major economies, the so-called G20, will take place on Friday and Saturday in Osaka in western Japan.
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