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They find in LEBANON a couple who disappeared in Brazil after telling their family that they were going to a shopping center with half a kilo of cocaine in their stomachs
- Brazilian citizens Igor dos Santos and his wife Juliana Nunes face drug smuggling charges in Lebanon
- The couple were arrested at Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport on December 19, each with half a kilo of cocaine in their stomachs.
- Dos Santos and Nunes were reported missing on December 28 after traveling from Rio Grande do Sul to São Paulo on December 13 to go shopping.
- They were in communication with their families from December 13 to 18 before they cut off communication.
- Dos Santos and Nunes admitted swallowing the cocaine but did not say who the shipment belonged to.
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A couple once reported missing by relatives in Brazil are now stuck behind bars in Lebanon on drug smuggling charges.
Igor dos Santos, 26, and Juliana Nunes, 31, were detained at Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport on December 19 after they tried to enter the country with half a kilo of cocaine each in their stomachs.
Dos Santos and Nunes departed from Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo, Brazil, aboard a Qatar Airways flight that connected in Doha, Qatar.
Both admitted to Lebanese authorities that they had swallowed the cocaine, but did not say who the shipment belonged to.
Juliana Nunes (left) and her husband, Igor dos Santos (right), are being held in a Lebanese jail for smuggling a pound of cocaine in their stomachs. The Brazilian couple had told their families they were going shopping, leaving their home in Rio Grande do Sul on December 13 and arriving in São Paulo the next day. They remained in communication until December 18 before cutting off all means of contact. They were arrested in Beirut on December 19.
Juliana Nunes (left) and Igor dos Santos (right) have been married for two years
It is unknown if they had ingested the cocaine before boarding the flight in Brazil or when they arrived in Qatar.
Dos Santos and Nunes were married in February 2022 according to the Brazilian outlet G1.
Their families became concerned when they traveled from Carazinho, Rio Grande do Sul to São Paulo to go shopping on December 13.
They arrived in São Paulo on December 14 and kept in touch until December 18, when communications with their loved ones ceased.
Police report submitted by the family of Igor dos Santos, who reported him and his wife missing before discovering that the couple were sitting in a Lebanese jail on drug trafficking charges.
Igor dos Santos was arrested with half a kilo of cocaine in his stomach at Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport on December 19.
Their family reported them missing on December 28 and learned the next day about their legal problems in Lebanon.
Dos Santos’ mother, Claudete dos Santos, blamed Nunes for cutting all lines of communication and said her son was not used to long-distance travel.
“He is not a criminal,” he told RBS TV. ‘I swear by all that is most sacred that my son is not a criminal, he is not a criminal.’