欧州向けサーフボードからコカイン発見 ウルグアイ
ウルグアイ警察によると、コカインは先月23日、麻薬探知犬によりサーフボード6枚の内部から発見された。うち5枚にはコカイン計40.6キロが隠されていた。
コカイン9.3キロが隠されていた6枚目はそのまま輸出され、欧州当局が受取人の追跡を続けた。
ポルトガル警察は今月7日、スペイン経由で届いたサーフボードの受取人だったイタリア人2人を拘束。さらにイタリア警察が11日、輸出者となっていたイタリア人1人を拘束した。容疑者はウルグアイに引き渡される予定。
ウルグアイは近年、中南米で生産されたコカインが欧州に輸送される際の主要中継地となっている。【翻訳編集AFPBBNews】
〔AFP=時事〕(2023/06/14-16:31)
Uruguay finds cocaine in surfboards bound for Europe
Police have broken a drug ring that smuggled cocaine hidden in surfboards bound from South America to Europe, Uruguayan officials said on Tuesday.
The capture of the narcotics came after cooperative efforts by anti-drug police in Uruguay, Spain, Portugal and Italy, the officials said.
So far, three Italian citizens have been arrested, two in Portugal and one in Italy, they said.
Operation Iris is unprecedented in our country because of the scope and significance of international cooperation, National Police Director Jose Manuel Azambuya said in a conference in which authorities from the other countries participated via video link.
Sniffer dogs from an anti-drug unit in Uruguay signaled something suspicious in a package with the six surfboards on May 23, police said. Cocaine was found in the boards.
A total of 90 pounds (40.6 kilograms) of cocaine was found in five of the boards, police said. A sixth was allowed to pass through so authorities in Europe could track who was receiving the narcotics.
Portuguese police arrested the two individuals who went to pick up the package, which had transited through Spain, on June 7. The remaining surfboard held about 20 pounds (9.3 kilos) of cocaine, police said.
An Italian citizen who sent the surfboards from Uruguay was arrested in Italy on June 11, and is awaiting extradition to stand trial in Uruguay, a police statement said.
Uruguay, sandwiched between Argentina and Brazil, has become in recent years a major transit point for cocaine from Colombia and Peru bound for Europe.
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