OLGA MIRANDA PINTO, the Portuguese woman who was accompanying a Brazilian drug smuggler who died on a flight to Dublin, has been working as an agent for foreign students hoping to acquire visas in Ireland.

Pinto, 44, has been operating a visa consultancy office at the back of a beauty clinic on Capel Street in Dublin, close to a number of language schools. She bought the Lisbon-Dublin airline ticket for John Kennedy dos Santos Gurjao, the Brazilian who died after an ingested cocaine pellet burst in his stomach. He was pronounced dead after the flight was diverted to Cork on October 18. Pinto was arrested after her luggage was found to contain a white powder that later turned out to be baking soda. She was