A videograb shows police taking the women in to custody.

Gulf Today Report

A 79-year-old Spanish woman, was arrested on suspicion of leading a drug trafficking network, in Portugal, according to the Spanish authorities.

The Spanish Civil Guard said the women who runs a gang that imports cocaine from the Dominican Republic to Portugal.

She was arrested in a Villa Real in northern Portugal with other 66-year-old Spanish, in an operation by the Spanish and Portuguese security forces.

A statement issued by the Civil Guard said: "They smuggled drugs to the Iberian Peninsula through Portuguese ports through a company working according to the law for the coral importation from the Dominican Republic."

The statement added the 79-year-old woman was the leader of the gang and the director of the company.

In November last year, a submarine conveying a load of cocaine worth €100 million from Latin America was intercepted in the northwestern Spanish region of Galicia near Portugal.