ORA court in Spain has sentenced each of the eleven defendants to seven years and six months in prison, among them a civil guard and two Spanish police officers, of introducing 367 kilos of cocaine from Colombia into Spain, in addition to paying a total fine of 45 million euros.
The Provincial Court of Seville, in a ruling notified this Friday, which can be appealed, condemns the eleven defendants, seven of them already in provisional prison since September 2022, as perpetrators of a crime against public health due to drug trafficking.
As reported by the Superior Court of Justice of the Spanish region of Andalusia, the ruling considers it proven that in an investigation by the National Prosecutor's Office of Colombia a possible cocaine shipment to Spain by an organization investigated there, which generated a request for cooperation to the Special Anti-Drug Prosecutor's Office of the National Court of Spain.
Shipment took place in August 2022 from a Colombian port to Malaga in Spain through a container on a ship with declared legal merchandise of pineapples, which arrived in September.
The inspection at the port detected the cocaine and the container was kept in the terminal until it was picked up in a truck that transported it to the Spanish province of Seville.
During the truck's journey, a vehicle was detected in which the two now convicted police officers and a third defendant were traveling, who “performed custody duties,” according to the court.
The agents who were monitoring the route intervened and detained those who were at the drug unloading site, where they seized the cocaine, with a value in the illicit market of almost 89 million euros in its sale by dose.
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