Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) cocaine carrying a device abandoned by its crew on March 26, 2019 at the Fuerteventura airport after landing from Brazil.
The first section of the Court of Las Palmas judges this Thursday David Amar de Juan, alias “El Judío”, a pilot who the Spanish security forces have been tracking since 2016 because they suspected that he had been crossing the ocean for years with drug caches .
In this case, he must answer for the shipment of 388.31 kilos of cocaine discovered in a Pilatus PC-12/45 plane abandoned at the Fuerteventura airport as soon as it landed by its three crew members, one of whom was already convicted on April 6. of 2021 in a final sentence for these same facts, Pablo María Lana Hierro.
David Amar was arrested three years after he fled, when he was detected on February 18, 2022, leaving the Mexican Embassy in Madrid after having identified himself with false documents.
In its statement of charges, the Prosecutor’s Office indicates that David Amar, Pablo María Lana and their partner, Manuel LV, who has not yet been tried, were dedicated to introducing into Europe large quantities of cocaine that they loaded in Brazil, in clandestine airfields in the Alta Floresta region. .
Then, the Public Ministry continues, they flew to Guinea Conakry or Cape Verde, with the legal coverage of a company based in the first of those two countries dedicated to the business of air taxi services and, immediately afterwards, they headed for Fuerteventura.
The Prosecutor’s Office details that the cocaine shipment they transported on their last flight would have had a value on the illicit market of 11.33 million euros. EFE