Vila Nova de Milfontes: Group led drug trafficking begins today to be tried.
Group that controlled the sale of drugs in Vila Nova de Milfontes begins today to be prosecuted in the Court of Beja. Four of the defendants are in custody. A Ukrainian citizen is seen as the leader and is appointed as “very dangerous and violent”.
six individuals, four of them in custody, that were part of a group led drug trafficking in Vila Nova de Milfontes, start now on trial before the Court of Beja, surrounded by tight security.
they are enrolled 60 prosecution witnesses, mostly heard under investigation chaired by magistrate, and in the order of indictment is required the removal of some of the hearing room of the defendants, when these witnesses laid, because "the fear that the defendants transmit".
The six subjects, five Portuguese and foreign, aged between 21 and 39 year old, one of which former firefighter, all residents in the village mouth of the River Mira, They are accused of drug trafficking crime, there three who also held banned weapons.
Billed as "ringleader" of the group, Ukrainian citizen Maksym Rarenko, set in Vila Nova de Milfontes, as "an old acquaintance and friend of local authorities", He is charged with two crimes of drug trafficking, prohibited weapon detention, I recetação, theft and extortion.
In situations the accused was selling drugs to a Brazilian citizen, the mother and sister and when that did not pay, He withdrew it the documents and was the boyfriend of the victim who liquidated debts. The Ukrainian coibia not to threaten the woman "the abducted and put in another country to work in prostitution".
Three of the individuals are detained in Prison (EP) Beja, in different wings and the fourth in the EP Silves, so as not contacting each other directly.
The defendants were arrested in mid-February of this year, during a "muscular" operation to combat drug, carried out by GNR (pictured Detachment and Vila Nova de Milfontes Desk), which was attended by about 100 Military Territorial Command Beja and Intervention Unit.
In operation GNR seized various amounts of cocaine, heroin, cannabis and exctasy. Were also seized firearms and ammunition, cold steel, firecrackers, caps, laser light signals, 20 mobile phones, gold, talk, jewelry, 2800 euros in cash and a high-powered car.
At the time of arrest and before and be brought to justice for first interrogation, individuals were distributed by Vila Nova de Milfontes posts, Odemira, St. Louis and St. Teotonio, so as not to contact one another.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
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