The largest cocaine seizure at sea, the mother ship in Termini Imerese: 15 more arrests.
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The Plutus ship, flying the flag of Palau, was blocked by the finance guard after unloading 5 tons of cocaine onto the fishing boat Ferdinando D’Aragona. It has arrived at the port of Termini Imerese in Palermo. The financiers of the provincial command of Palermo and the aeronaval component of the Body have carried out the preventive seizure, ordered by the Dda of Palermo coordinating the investigations, of the motor vessel and the detention of 15 crew members (2 Ukrainians, including the ship’s commander – 8 Turks and 5 Azerbaijanis).
The intervention, carried out with the use of numerous air and naval means – coastal and high-sea – of the operational aeronaval command of Pratica di Mare (RM) and the operational aeronaval unit of Palermo, in coordination with the investigators of the Economic and Financial Police Unit of Palermo, directed by Colonel Gianluca Angelini, is part of the operation triggered in the Sicilian Channel concerning drug trafficking, which involved the mother ship Plutus and the fishing boat Ferdinando D’Aragona.
The 15 crew members have been detained. They are Viktor Dyachenko, Ukrainian, 70 years old, ship’s captain; Murad Osmanov, Azerbaijani, 28 years old; Elmar Hamzayev, Azerbaijani, 25 years old; Yaroslav Malenkov, Ukrainian, 74 years old; Rasim Huseynov, Azerbaijani, 57 years old; Orkhan Orujov, Azerbaijani, 33 years old; Erkan Tekin, Turkish, 38 years old; Nuh Bal, 49 years old; Birol Altin, Turkish, 40 years old; Mehmet Kirmizigul, Turkish, 34 years old; Ebubekir Ozbilen, Turkish, 29 years old; Nurlan Mirzammadov, Azerbaijani, 29 years old; Ergin Aycun Tahir, Turkish, 34 years old; Erkan Katircioglu, Turkish, 48 years old; Onur Coskun, Turkish, 24 years old.
In recent days, the five crew members of the fishing boat Ferdinando D’Aragona from the maritime compartment of Reggio Calabria were also detained. They were stopped by the Finance Guard with a load of 5.3 tons of cocaine and had already been detained by the Dda of Palermo, led by Maurizio de Lucia. The people already detained are Vincenzo Catalano, 35 years old from Bagnara Calabra (Rc) and captain of the fishing boat; Kamel Thamlaoui, Tunisian, 53 years old, residing in Tricase (Le); Sami Mejri, Tunisian, 48 years old, residing in Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (Me); Yanis Malik Bargas, French, 19 years old; Elvis Lleshaj, Albanian, 35 years old. They have been transferred from Porto Empedocle to the Pagliarelli prison in Palermo.
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