Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE) arrest respond to a “trap” set for him by the US special anti-drug agency, the DEA, which “went wrong and nobody wants to investigate.”
In his statement on Tuesday, David Amar, known as “El Judío”, has defended in court that he fell into a “provoked crime”, in which a Spanish policeman also intervened, and that the drugs did not come from Brazil, but from Suriname, and it was loaded at the Paramaribo airport and not in a Brazilian jungle, as the Las Palmas anti-drug prosecutor, Antonio Amor, maintains.
The defendant has stated that he learned the amount he transported in his plane after the cocaine was found at the Fuerteventura airport, the island from which he fled after a first police search in which nothing was found after landing to refuel. on March 26, 2019, along with the other pilot already convicted of these events, Pablo María Lana, and Manuel LV, who is still on the run.
According to his version, from Fuerteventura they were going to travel to Casarrubios del Monte, in Toledo, where the people who hired him had to pick up the drugs and who, according to what he has said, advanced him 20,000 euros for the work, although the amount agreed for the three was 920,000 to distribute.
According to his testimony, the operation to transfer the drug was proposed for the first time by a worker at the Paramaribo airport, who was the person who was in charge of loading the cocaine on the plane on February 24, 2019, but who was not he has wanted to investigate, nor the “encrypted” conversations he had by skype with DEA agents, since the operation was proposed to him.
There were several meetings that were held at the Puerta de Atocha in Madrid and, although in the first he said he did not want to participate, in the third he accepted because he had financial problems, indicated the pilot, who specified that those who proposed the job They told him that they would go to Casarrubios del Monte to get the drugs out of the plane.
The pilot has denied that he disconnected the plane’s transponder so that they would not locate it, as the prosecutor also maintains, since it is “impossible” to disappear from the radar after the attacks of September 11 in the United States, and has emphasized that the The flight plan, which was in the cockpit, has not been provided as proof, since the departure from Suriname appeared there, along with the entire route they took.
The second pilot of the plane, Pablo María Lana, has testified as a witness from the penitentiary center where he is serving a sentence in Madrid for these same facts, and has alleged that in the agreement he reached with the Prosecutor’s Office to reduce his sentence to 9 He lied and said that the drug was loaded in a jungle in Brazil, when in reality it was in Suriname, as well as that the flight plan was in the cockpit of the plane.
This defense witness, when asked by David Amar’s lawyer about whether a policeman was present in the meetings held by his client, said that he does not remember but that it could be.
According to David Amar, even teams from the Deputy Operations Directorate of the National Police told him that they were going to help him after he was detained with false documentation when leaving the Mexican embassy in Madrid.
His lawyer, Tomás Torre, has requested his acquittal for violation of the right to defense by rejecting the evidence requested to demonstrate the provoked crime of which his client feels he is a victim, as well as for the “illegality of the police action”, and, in all In this case, he has requested that he be sentenced for the crime of attempted drug trafficking with the extenuation of collaboration with justice.
If none of this were successful, he has claimed the same sentence imposed by Pablo María Lara, of nine years in prison, and not 13 and a half years as requested by the prosecutor, on the understanding that a “comparative tort” would be incurred if a sentence were handed down. other than lacking background”.
The anti-drug prosecutor of Las Palmas, Antonio Amor, has not believed David Amar’s version, because more than an provoked crime, he describes an assumption of police corruption, and has maintained his request for 13 and a half years in prison and two fines. totaling 65 million euros for the crime of drug trafficking.
The facts he narrates lack credibility, in the opinion of the prosecutor, who recalled that he was arrested with a false document and stressed that the evidence requested by the defense was “useless and irrelevant”.
In his right to the last word, the defendant has apologized to his family and friends for destroying his life and career, and has said that the process in which he is immersed is a “torturous path.” EFE