Three men are sentenced to prison after planning and smuggling cocaine into Helsingborg’s port.
A man who worked at the port for 30 years and his friend are sentenced to two years in prison for planning to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador.
A third man is sentenced to eight years in prison for the cocaine that was smuggled into the port, but which had been exchanged by the police.
Three men were charged on suspicion of having planned and carried out the smuggling of cocaine to Helsingborg. Today the verdict came from the district court.
The three men were charged with having planned and carried out the smuggling of cocaine from South America to Sweden. Today, the Helsingborg district court announced its verdict.
The port worker who worked at the port for 30 years and his friend are sentenced to two years in prison for having planned two smuggling operations together. The court writes that only one of the smuggling projects went so far that it was punishable.
Another man was prosecuted and sentenced to eight years in prison for attempted and stamping offences. It is about the cocaine that has been hidden in refrigerated containers in the port, but where the narcotics have been exchanged by customs officials.
Cocaine worth SEK 175 million
The customs office found roughly 93 kilos of cocaine in the port of Helsingborg and the Dutch police found 102 kilos of cocaine that was on its way to the port of Helsingborg.
– The confiscated cocaine is worth a total of approximately SEK 78 million in the wholesale level and approximately SEK 175 million in the street level in undiluted condition, said District Attorney Hans Harding in connection with the men being charged.
The men were charged with, among other things, conspiracy to commit particularly serious drug smuggling, attempted serious drug crime and preparation for particularly serious drug smuggling.