Those involved were charged with various drug crimes and they must pass 120 days in pretrial detentionreported from the Prosecutor’s Office.
Total 16 people of four different nationalities were arrested in the framework of the police operation “Virtus”, which seized 489 kilos of cocaine in a house in Pajas Blancas.
The drug, they highlighted from the Ministry of the Interior, was wrapped in bricks with cartoon figures Mickey Mouse and has a value of $15 million. It came from Bolivia and was destined for Europe.
“It has dismantled a international organized crime group and in turn has been given a very strong blow to drug trafficking“, said this Friday the Undersecretary of the Interior, Guillermo Maciel, at a press conference.
Among the defendants are the two citizens of Montenegro who according to the Police they could integrate the clan of the Balkans, a large organized crime network operating in Europe. They were classified by the authorities as “the main objectives of the organization” and they were wanted by Interpol with a blue alert, according to the police report to which he agreed. The Observer.
Both foreigners were accused of a crime of “organization of drug trafficking activities”, confirmed from the Prosecutor’s Office The Observer.
They were also prosecuted a Bolivian citizen and an Argentine. The first was charged with crimes of drug trafficking organization and drug traffickingwhile the second will go to pretrial detention as accomplice to a traffic offence.
The remaining six defendants are Uruguayans. Four of them were charged as accomplices in an organization crimeand two others for one crime of assistance to drug traffickingsources from the agency reported.
