Source St. Petersburg City Court announced the verdict to a resident of Ecuador Quiñones Francisco Xavier Cortes. He was found guilty under several “narcotic” articles: part 4 of article 33 – paragraph b of part 4 of article 229.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (drug smuggling) and part 4 of article 33 – part 5 of article 228.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ( illegal production, sale or shipment of narcotic drugs).
Previously, the jury found him guilty of mediation in the distribution of drugs on an especially large scale and mediation in giving a bribe. The foreigner was sentenced to 17 years in prison in a strict regime colony, the joint press service of the city courts reported.
According to the press service of the courts, during the World Cup in Russia In 2018, Cortes “in order to search for a buyer of cocaine in the territory of the Russian Federation … instructed an organized crime group member to an unidentified person named “Andrey” to find a buyer for a “trial” batch of cocaine narcotic drug in the amount of 7 kg, the delivery of which was planned by sea transport from Ecuador to St. Petersburg . In the event of a successful smuggling and its sale, Cortes planned to carry out similar deliveries of cocaine to the Russian Federation on a regular basis on a weekly basis, in batches up to 50 kg. sailed to Petersburg. Cortez, along with his assistant named Sanchez, was detained during the sale of the party to a police officer who worked undercover. For 7 briquettes of cocaine, they received “a dummy of cash in the amount of 16 thousand US dollars and 122.5 thousand euros.” Sanchez received a shorter sentence and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
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