June 15, 2023, 4:00 AM
June 15, 2023, 4:00 AM
The Controlled Substances Prosecutor’s Office issued summonses against all the heads of the special, elite and High Intelligence groups of the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (Felcn) of Santa Cruz to testify about the shipment of cocaine shipped at the Viru Viru airport, in February of this year, and transported on a plane rented by BoA to Madrid-Spain.
Subpoenas Issued are part of a new phase of investigations aimed at clarifying the so-called ‘drug flight,‘ which caused a storm of criticism and scandal in the country.
The anti-narcotics prosecutors that make up the special commission Rocío Medrano Urizar, Rubén Ordóñez and Fernando Mejía issued the summons so that all the heads of the special units of the Felcn de Santa Cruz testify as witnesses.
According to the orders issued by the commission of prosecutors The head of the Intelligence and Special Operations Group (GIOE), that of the Chemical Substances Investigation Group (GISUQ), will have to go to testify. the Special Case Investigation Group (GICE), the International Canine Operations Center (CIOC K-9), the Economic and Financial Research and Analysis Group (GIAEF) that investigates the legitimization of illicit profits from drug trafficking networks.
At the same time, the citations include the departmental director of the Special Force to Fight Drug Trafficking (Felcn), located in the fourth ring, and the chief of operations.
The citations are fixed based on a schedule so that Starting today, Thursday, the heads of special groups come to testify at the Prosecutor’s Office of Controlled Substances, on Barcelona street.
The Prosecutor’s Office considers that as witnesses the police officers in charge of the fight against drug trafficking they will not be able to abstain and will have to answer questions referring to the shipment of almost half a ton of cocaine to the Barajas airport, Madrid.
Among the obligatory questions is one that people ask themselves out of common sense:Do you know how the drug shipment entered the Viru Viru airport facilities?
To issue the summons, The commission of prosecutors made an analysis of the responsibility of the bosses, taking into account that they are at the head of groups with a high specialty in the detection of transport of prohibited substances in Viru Viru, considered the most important air terminal in the country.
A single jailed policeman
For more than two weeks – when the case broke out – in our country when the seizure of the shipment was learned through the Spanish media, the Felcn and the Prosecutor’s Office opened ex officio investigations. So far there are six people detained in the Palmasola prison by order of justice. Among them is a captain, chief of dogs who performed functions at the Viru Viru airport who became the only policeman involved.
EL DEBER confirmed that, after learning of the summonses, the elite bosses were surprised. Some intelligence police officers even affirmed in reserve that the statements will be important. However, one of them, in an annoyed tone, assured that “I am sure that this drug shipment entered Viru Viru and was dispatched by order of the political power above. I want to see that they summon these politicians who manage and get into everything in the Felcn and in all the Police.
The Prosecutor for Controlled Substances, according to the role of declarations, plans to convene other people considered key in the investigations.
After the testimony of the heads of elite groups, the prosecutors will analyze the contents and They do not rule out the possibility that they become denounced and be summoned again to testify about the ‘narco flight’. The call to testify to the police coincides with the 10-day reserve of the investigations that the justice decreed.
