September 18, 2024, 3:11 PM
September 18, 2024, 3:11 PM
The crew’s suitcases who intended to travel to Madrid, Spain, but were detained after the discovery of more than 13 kilos of drugs in the garbage containers inside an airplane, today Wednesday were subjected to microaspiration, procedure ordered by the Public Prosecutor’s Office in order to collect new investigative elements.
The luggage, which remained sealed after the discovery of the drugs, was transferred to the premises of the Special Force to Fight Drugs. Drug trafficking (Felcn), in the capital of Santa Cruz, on Wednesday morning, but until after noon they continued to carry out the microaspiration.
Prosecutor Julio César Porras said that the micro-suction is part of the investigation process that they must carry out, for which reason all the suitcases were seized and are being checked one by one.
He explained that, of the 37 people investigated, 11 of them are Viru Viru airport staff, two have already been sent to prison on remand after being caught on security cameras moving and handling the containers where the drugs were found.
The remaining 35 people have not yet been exonerated from the case, as they will be summoned to testify when the investigation is due.
Porras did not rule out that the investigations will be extended to more people from the different companies in Viru Viru, which is why the verification of the images from the surveillance cameras at the Santa Cruz airport continues.
He said that the work is being carried out in parallel with investigators in Cochabamba, since the flight that was bound for Madrid, Spain, arrived in Santa Cruz from Cochabamba.
The discovery of drug packages in the Interior of the Bolivian plane of Aviation (BoA) was registered at late afternoon on September 12, after a woman alerted the existence of suspicious packages andn the garbage container, a fact that led to the intervention of anti-drug agents and prosecutors, who ended up finding not just one package, but two, in which a total of 12 brick-shaped wrappers were piled up.
The substance found tested positive for cocaine, The total weight of the ship was over 13 kilos, leading to the arrest of 37 people. Of these, 26 were crew members who boarded the ship from the point of origin (Cochabamba) and the other 11 were workers from the cleaning company that provides services in Viru Viru.
