Caught transporting 22 kg of cocaine, "boxer" the Albanian is sentenced to 4 years in prison and a 1.6 million euro fine

2023-12-19 19:15:38Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Caught transporting 22 kg of cocaine, "boxer" the Albanian is
Cocaine seized

Shaved hair, tattoos, heavyweight boxer body. Claudio, despite his impressive physique, keeps a low profile in the dock. This 29-year-old Albanian was arrested by customs while transporting 22 kg of cocaine.

On December 7, his car, registered in Italy, was checked at the Boulou tollbooth on the A9 in France.

Customs agents emptied the trailer of all the grain pallets it contained. This was where the drugs were hidden, their instincts had not deceived them. The driver had 3 phones, through which instructions were transmitted and could be blocked remotely.

The story that Claudio tells is similar to that told by all the traffickers intercepted week after week. Deep in debt, he met "someone" who introduced him to "someone", who offered him 20,000 euros to cross the border with cocaine. He loaded in Spain and had to send it to Italy. It means nothing more.

"We are witnessing a real increase in drug trafficking and cocaine in particular, insists the prosecutor. This man is not the sponsor, only the weak link of the system, the one who takes risks.

But he didn't say no to the traffickers and he played a fundamental role, that's why he wants 4 years in prison and a 1,650,000 euro customs fine. In court, "I'll never do it again" doesn't carry much weight. He was sentenced to 4 years of continuous detention, 10 years of inadmissibility, confiscation of the trailer and the required astronomical fine.


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