He stated before the National Police that he made the journey under duress and out of fear that something would be done to his family.
The DEA gave the alert and the agents surprised the ship when it was sailing “blindly” at dawn with the lights off.
While the National Police continues to pull the string to complete the operation on land, the National Court has already adopted the first decisions in relation to those arrested for the stash of almost 2,300 kilos of cocaine found in the “Bestarruza” fishing boat boarded off the Cíes Islands. The head of the Central Court of Instruction number 3, María Tardón, decreed the provisional imprisonment of the four arrested on board the ship and a fifth person who was captured while traveling to Madrid. The crew members appeared by videoconference from the courts of Vigo: This is a Cape Verdean, two Albanians and the boat skipper based in Ferrol, Óscar Alejandro AT Along with his court appearance yesterday, this man also appeared, one day before, at the Álvaro Cunqueiro police station. And, although quite briefly, he declared before the National Police: he did it to proclaim his innocence and disassociate himself from the 84 bulky bales of cocaine that he was transporting in the small fishing boat of just over 12 meters in length. The version he gave was that he captained the boat under duress and out of fear after the threats received towards him and his family by the albanian clan who contacted him.
Although the vast majority of detainees in drug trafficking operations of this nature maintain absolute silence at police headquarters, taking advantage of their right not to testify, the boss of the “Bestarruza” decided to speak. It was very succinct, without delving into details about the way in which, according to his version, the Albanian drug traffickers contacted him and without going into other key questions such as where the crime occurred. transfer of the drug from the mother ship or to what point they were going to unload the stash once on the coast. His intention, apparently, was to testify in depth yesterday before the judge, but it was not revealed whether this was the case.
Forensic
Initially assisted by public defenders, those detained in the “Bestarruza” already appointed private lawyerswho were the ones who defended them yesterday in the City of Justice of Vigo, where it was necessary to mobilize an Imelga forensic expert apparently due to an anxiety attack suffered by one of those arrested. They were all sent to prison for the alleged commission of a crime against public health aggravated by notorious importance, criminal organization and extreme severity given the huge quantity transported and the fact of introducing it into Spain using a boat.
About how this police coup was triggered against an organization that is linked to the Balkan Cartelone of the most active criminal groups today, some sources consulted point out that the alert given by the DEA, the US agency in the elite fight against drug trafficking. In fact, an agent from this entity was present at the search that took place in the Vigo port. The agency would have warned that a major drug transfer was going to take place on the high seas and the police surveillance allowed us to detect the “Bestarruza” when he was sailing in the middle of the morning “blindly” to avoid attracting attention and trying to reach the coast with the drug: when he was detected and approached he was with the lights off and with the electrical navigation systems deactivated.