José Américo Bubo Na Tchuto

In 2013 the government gave the US important help when it was planning the capture of Guinea-Bissau's former navy chief Bubo na Tchuto in a sting operation over drugs-trafficking which led to his trial in the US (AC Vol 54 No 10 All at sea over drugs)...

General Indjai was one of the intended targets of a United States Drug Enforcement Administration sting operation that snared the former navy chief Admiral José Américo Bubo na Tchuto who in May pleaded guilty to drug smuggling charges as part of a plea bargain...

The boat in which Bubo na Tchuto was arrested was based in Banjul...

Bah said in his own statement to police that the two men had visited Bissau in late 2010 meeting top politicians and military men including the late President Malam Bacai Sanhá and other important people including the former navy chief Rear Admiral José Américo Bubo Na Tchuto (who was arrested for drugs and arms trafficking on 5 April 2013 in a United States Drug Enforcement Administration operation AC Vol 54 No 8 Admiral of the white)...

Top politicians and military officers are nervously looking over their shoulders after the detention of former navy chief José Américo Bubo Na Tchuto and the indictment of Army Chief of Staff General António Indjai on 18 April...

In a sting operation off the coast of Cape Verde on 2 April United States agents arrested the former head of the Navy Vice-Admiral José Américo Bubo Na Tchuto and other Guinea Bissauans for agreeing to provide arms in return for cocaine...

The latest military coup to rock the tiny state of Guinea Bissau began on 1 April when a pickup truck full of armed and drunken soldiers arrived at the United Nations office in Bissau and demanded to see José Américo Bubo Na Tchuto the former head of Guinea Bissau’s navy...

Much interest centres on Zamora’s former commanding officer Rear Admiral José Américo Bubo Na Tchuto who was accused of plotting a coup last year and fled to Gambia...

Feeling threatened by the investigation the Naval Chief of Staff Vice-Admiral José Américo Bubo Na Tchuto (AC Vol 48 Nos 13 & 18) began to recruit fellow officers for a coup against 69-year-old President João Bernardo ‘Nino’ Vieira...