‘Narcovuelo’: “I was summoned as a witness and I have provided all the information required”, national director of Felcn

For more than five hours he testified as a witness This Friday the national director of the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (Felcn), José Illanes, on the investigation that is being carried out for the shipment of 478 kilos of cocaine to Spain, from the Virur Viru international airport in Santa Cruz.

“I have been summoned as a witness and I have provided all the required information. In this investigation, Felcn is going to provide any information that the Public Ministry requires,” Illanes told the media this Friday night.

Illanes said that “complied with what the prosecutors commission ordered” who is investigating the case, but did not give details of his statement, however, he indicated that he will help with the proceedings of the process.

Apart from the national director of Felcn, they were also csummoned to testify members of the police high command in the office of the Prosecutor’s Office that is located on Barcelona street, in the Las Palmas neighborhood, in the house seized from Pedro Montenegro.

“I do not want to express any opinion because it does not correspond to me, that has to inform the commission of prosecutors”, said Illanes when asked about the statements of the other police chiefs.

In addition, the general inspector of the Felcn, Illanes’s assistant and the head of the legal unit also came to offer their testimonies. The national deputy director He did not attend because he is on medical leave due to a health problem.

Anti-narcotics authorities have to answer a series of questions about the cocaine shipment that left Viru Viru on February 11, penetrating at least seven filters of extreme controlsincluding the sterile area of ​​the airport.

Yesterday, also as witnesses, the regional leaders of Felcn declared, including the departmental director of Santa Cruz, Cristian García, who clarified that he was not in command of the anti-drug force on February 11, when the drugs were loaded onto the Airbus 330-243 plane of the Wamos Air company, which Boliviana de Aviación (BoA) contracted to carry out a commercial flight to Madrid’s Barajas airport.

“I was in another destination and on March 20 I just assumed the Felcn (…) These statements are procedural activities that we have to comply with by law and we are going to help with the investigations,” he added.

For this case called drug flight and There are eight people detained in the Palmasola prison: Captain Carmelo CCG, in charge of dogs at the Viru Viru airport; Juan Carlos VR, civil security officer; Jorge WD, BoA operator; Diego V.U, BoA official; Freddy Ch.G., BoA official; Ronald Marcelo C., worker of the courier company José María de Santa Cruz; Maribel RA, legal representative of this Courier company; Lenny RL, BoA operator

While the owner of the company José María de Santa Cruz, Carolina Adelaida CR (wife of Ronald Marcelo and daughter of Maribel) she was released with substitute measures.