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Of­fi­cers of the Guyana Po­lice Force’s Spe­cial Or­gan­ised Crime Unit (SOCU) suc­cess­ful­ly in­ter­cept­ed an il­le­gal gold smug­gling at­tempt in­volv­ing Brazil­ians.

Ac­cord­ing to the SOCU, its of­fi­cers de­tained two Brazil­ians and seized a large quan­ti­ty of gold and over GUY$26 mil­lion (One Guyana dol­lar=US$0.004 cents) in cash.

Ar­rest­ed are Al­bi­na Fil­ho Alves Vieira, 42, male of Brazil­ian na­tion­al­i­ty, a sales­man, and Er­izan­gela Re­gia De Oliv­era, 39, a fe­male clothes ven­dor al­so from Brazil.