Although a nylon bag might not make most people frown, the officer was still stunned by the find.
The bag was exactly the same type as the one in which the 100 kilos of cocaine were packed when the police found the drugs in the back of the Hyundai that two of the defendants were driving in when they were arrested.
In fact, both the sacks in the ship’s engine room and the car’s trunk were also both lubricated in lubricating oil, the investigator says.
The prosecution is of the opinion that one of the accused – a 49-year-old Latvian citizen who worked as an electrician on the ship – threw four waterproof bags with 100 kilos of cocaine overboard from the ship.
At that time, the ship was in the waters off Langeland.
After this, two conspirators should have sailed out in a boat from Spodsbjerg Harbor to pick up the drugs.
According to the indictment, they transported the cocaine back to the Port of Spodsbjerg, where they and a third packed the cocaine in the Hyundai.
One of the two boat drivers stayed at the harbor, where he was later arrested, while the other two drove towards Tranekjær.
They were both arrested shortly after driving from the port.
The investigator also found what he calls “dummies” in the ship’s engine room. He explains that it is wooden blocks that are cut out the same size as the packages of cocaine.
He suspects the purpose was to be able to figure out how to pack the cocaine in the bags.
In addition to the nylon bag and the so-called “dummies”, the investigator found two SIM cards and the packaging from a SIM card in a drawer at the electrician’s workshop.
The packaging was from a sim card of the brand Lycamobile, and the text on the packaging was in Danish.
– When you know that the ship sails from South America to St. Petersburg, it is a little strange that there is a Danish sim card, says the investigator.
He says that he suspects that the sim card should be used to communicate with someone in Denmark.
Police were lurking ready to catch cocaine smugglers as the ship sailed past Langeland on its way to St. Petersburg in February.
According to a tip from the Swedish customs authorities, the police expected that 200 kilos of cocaine would be thrown into the water in the area from a container ship that was to sail from South America to Russia.
The case is expected to end on December 3.
Source: The Nordic Page