At around 11:20 a.m. on December 4, 2009, a passenger who was carrying inside the Air Europa Company arrived at the Barajas Airport (Madrid) on flight UX 088 from Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic). from his organism 111 balls of cocaine. He went to the baggage claim room, where he met another man, Dominican, like other people who accompanied him, who had organized the trip.
Together they were preparing to get into a taxi when they were intercepted by police officers. The traveler was transferred to the Ramón y Cajal Hospital in Madrid, on suspicion that he could be transporting some narcotic substance in his body, and it was there that an X-ray revealed the 111 balls, which turned out to contain cocaine with a net weight of 1,200.8 grams. , with a purity of 51.5%. The seized amount would have reached the market price of 71,627.72 euros distributed in grams, at a rate of 59.65 euros per gram.
The procedure that began in July 2009, of which the reported case is one of the six actions that resulted in facts that the court considers proven, has been paralyzed for reasons not attributable to the defendants for long periods of time; Therefore, the Fifth Section of the Provincial Court of Valencia has applied a mitigation of undue delay to all the defendants.
And it has imposed prison sentences ranging from one to three years in prison and fines of between 40,000 and 150,000 euros to six men whom it considers criminally responsible for as many crimes against public health for introducing cocaine into Spain through ‘ human mails. The sentence, the result of a compliance agreement between the Public Prosecutor and the defense, is firm and cannot be appealed.
The investigation began in 2009, when the Central Operative Unit of the Civil Guard received information from the US DEA about the existence of a Colombian organization dedicated to drug trafficking that operated in Spain and was related to another Spanish organization, which was in charge of introducing , distribute and sell the drug.
In the course of the investigations, the agents verified that those now convicted bought cocaine in South America, especially in the Dominican Republic, and introduced it into Spain through human “mail” or carriers who arrived at the Madrid airport.
On November 9, 2009, one of the prisoners landed in Barajas from Santo Domingo, the Dominican capital, on a trip organized by the rest of the defendants. The man was carrying five brick-like packages in his hand luggage that he deposited in one of the services marked with the baby symbol.
The drugs were collected by an airport maintenance worker, also convicted in this case, who had access and could move with impunity inside the facilities.
Both the carrier and the terminal employee were detained by the agents who were watching them and who seized the drug, about five kilos of cocaine, which would have sold for 297,000 euros on the illicit market.
The largest of the sentences, three years and one day in prison, falls on a man named Arcadio, as the perpetrator of a crime against public health in the form of substances that cause serious damage to health in an amount of notorious importance, given that in his case it is appreciated as an aggravating factor for recidivism.
