Spanish Police Officer and Two Moroccan Men on Trial for Massive Hashish Smuggling Operation

The two defendants deny the facts. Rachid N. and another defendant who pleaded guilty and who traveled on the boat where the hashish was transported, are to be heard by the court on May 10, said judge Miguel Ángel Parramón. Two other defendants, Mohamed A. and Nija E., currently on the run, will be tried in absentia, reports EFE.

The national police officer, Fermín Carlos VR, who helped these cocaine and hashish trafficking networks introduce these drugs into Gran Canaria, has admitted the facts and pleaded guilty. The agent, stationed in Maspalomas until his arrest in January 2020, is sentenced to five years and one day in prison and a fine of 3.2 million euros, after agreements between his lawyers and the public prosecutor’s office, which had requested a sentence of 15 years in prison against him.

20 other defendants in this case have also pleaded guilty and have been sentenced to sentences ranging from one year and eleven months to five years and six months in prison. The charges of membership in a criminal organization brought against them have also been withdrawn.