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The National Police has detained in less than a week to two international judicial claims (24/05/2017)

The actions are the result of the control carried out by the National Police at the Schengen external borders and of international police collaboration.

The detainees were claimed by the judicial authorities of Brazil and Romania.

Both EUROPOL and INTERPOL informed the National Police of these international searches for detention.

The National Police has detained in the last weeks two citizens originating in Portugal and Romania, aboard vessels, who were heard by international court claims from their countries of origin and were detained and placed at the disposal of the National Court for their extradition.

In accordance with the European directives of the Schengen Borders Code, the National Police carries out exhaustive checks every day on board all the vessels that dock in the different commercial and sports ports in order to guarantee legal entry into Spanish territory.

In order to carry out these functions, it is necessary to carry out continuous checks and negotiations with national and foreign authorities, both police and judicial, channeled through international cooperation agencies such as EUROPOL and INTERPOL.

As a result of this cooperation, in the last weeks, the police officers assigned to the Maritime Border Post, dependent on the Aliens and Borders Brigade of the National Police, have proceeded to the arrest of two fugitives, which contained respective arrest warrants.

He is a Portuguese citizen, on whom INTERPOL Brazil was interested in an international extradition order, and a Romanian citizen responsible for the commission of crimes against the patrimony.

INTERPOL was informed of the involvement of the skipper of a recreational craft with a berth forecast at a sports port in Cartagena, in the transport of cocaine between Brazil and Portugal.

The detainee was part of an international organization dedicated to drug trafficking

In 2015, this person, using his status as a sailor, proceeded to transfer between 70 and 100 kilos of cocaine, hidden inside a sailboat.

The detainee was part of a criminal organization based in the Brazilian region of Baixada, dedicated to drug trafficking between the South American country and the European continent.

To try to bypass the controls and filters of the National Police, it contributed at the ports of destination altered or incomplete identities.

This circumstance was not effective for the agents who discovered the deceit and proceeded to his arrest and later made available to the Central Court of Instruction UNO of the National Court, for his next extradition to Brazil to comply with the sentence imposed.

Similarly, the Romanian citizen, a member of the crew of a merchant of Portuguese flag, was detected thanks to exhaustive filters made by the National Police.

The detainee used two different identities to evade his detention

This individual made use of two different passports, whose identities could be linked by police officers, obtaining full credence of his true affiliation, so he was immediately arrested, being placed at the disposal of the Court of Instruction of Guard of Cartagena to comply with the Judicial injunction for the commission of different crimes against property.

Over the past year, more than 3,500 vessels have been checked in the ports of Cartagena, both recreational and merchant.

In the same way the corresponding crew identifications and passage of the 121 cruises arrived to the city were realized.

Source: Jefatura Superior de Policía Murcia

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