A court has jailed a drug trafficker for nine years and fined him €10,000 for importing 360g of cocaine and other illicit substances, in a case dating back 10 years.
Uchena Anya, 38, from Nigeria, was found guilty of possession of the drug in circumstances denoting it wasn’t for his personal use, conspiracy to traffic drugs and money laundering by Magistrate Neville Camilleri.
The case revolves around a controlled delivery carried out by the police on 27 November 2010. The consignment of drugs was halted after a Romanian man, Attila Somlyai, was caught carrying 60 capsules containing around 600g of cocaine in his stomach at the airport the day before.
Somlyai had arrived in Malta from Dusseldorf and became arrested. He had cooperated with the police and completed the managed delivery out of doors a Sliema resort.
Police investigations discovered that the medicine were meant to be handed on to every other Nigerian guy, Stephen Ikechukwu, who changed into additionally charged in separate court cases. Anya became located to have additionally been involved within the importation plan.
Somlyai had explained how he were traveling from Amsterdam to Dusseldorf after which caught a flight to Malta, where he become imagined to go to the Roma resort and meet a Nigerian man. This plan became a success in October 2010, and the courier had consigned 28 pills in his first visit to Malta.
Somlyai's 2nd go to become unsuccessful, however, and he changed into intercepted by way of the police. X-rays had found out a big range of pills in his belly.
Anya changed into arrested after police noticed him acting suspiciously in court docket whilst Somlyai was arraigned collectively with Stephen Egbo.
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