The ruling in the trial of five suspects in the Sal drug trafficking case (José Jorge, Tigana, Zé Pote, Naiss and Lígia Furtado), originally slated to be handed down on July 31, has been postponed until October, immediately after the beginning of the next judicial year. Public prosecutors have recommended heavy sentences ranging between 15 and 29 years for the accused, and the money laundering law is also expected to be invoked, considering the wealth assumed to have resulted from drug trafficking accumulated by the de