An apartment building where cocaine was found during a police raid. The building is home to the Armed Forces General Staff. In the two year investigation that followed, tens of millions of dollars worth of property was confiscated, and nine people were jailed, including the head of the local stock exchange and a prominent estate agent.

The Cape Verde islands lie on what's known as 'Highway 10', the DEA's nickname for the smuggling route at 10 degrees north which provides the shortest distance from Latin America to Europe. In February 2019, police on the island made the world's biggest-ever seizure of Europe-bound cocaine, when they found nearly ten tonnes of cocaine on board a vessel.