NZ: Gambling debts drove Portuguese ex-paratrooper into cocaine smuggling plot

10 months ago

Carlos Davide Ferreira-Sampaio came to New Zealand to retrieve a package containing 91kg of cocaine, with a potential street value of $27 million. It was concealed in two bags stashed under the hull of a container ship. He was sentenced to five years and two months. Facing mounting debts, a Portuguese national found himself in New […]