German-Dutch border area
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Five years in prison for smuggling six kilograms of cocaine
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The 1st Criminal Chamber at the District Court of Krefeld made the verdict
Photo: Königs, Bastian (bkö)
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Nettetal/Krefeld A 46-year-old man from Wiesbaden was caught in Nettetal on the A61 with six kilograms of cocaine hidden in the center console of his car. The Krefeld district court has now sentenced him to five years in prison.
A 46-year-old man has now been sentenced to a total of five years in prison before the Krefeld District Court, 1st Large Criminal Court, for illegally importing narcotics (BTM) in no small quantity in conjunction with aiding and abetting the illicit trade in BTM in no small quantity sentenced.
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Specifically, the accused, who lives in Wiesbaden, entered the city of Nettetal in a car from the Netherlands in September 2021. Police officers stopped him there and searched the car and found more than six kilograms of cocaine with an active ingredient content of 81.9 percent in a hiding place in the center console, which was intended for profitable resale. There was also 10,000 euros in cash in the hiding place.
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The accused testified in detail on the matter. He went to the Netherlands to pick up his cousin at the airport in Amsterdam. However, when he was almost there, his relative called him on his cell phone and told him that he had not been able to take the plane. But that cousin had made an appointment in the Netherlands with two men who wanted to buy the car that the man from Wiesbaden was driving. He asked his relatives to meet prospective buyers in a parking lot.
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The two showed up there half an hour later. “They wanted to pay for the car directly in cash and then pick it up later in Germany. You had previously agreed a price of 10,000 euros with my cousin,” said the 46-year-old in the dock. He didn’t really want to accept that much cash, “but the men said the car had a hiding place and nobody would find it if they checked it.”
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When opening this hiding place, which “I didn’t know anything about”, he must have seen that something else was stored there. He thought of drugs, but wasn’t sure and certainly didn’t suspect “such a large amount”. In any case, it all seemed very strange to him, but since he felt afraid of the men, he had them do it and then went back to Germany.
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