Salzburg’s mega drug trial reveals explosive issues: the prosecution’s key witness is in a relationship with an interpreter
Next Tuesday, a major trial against 14 accused of trafficking in at least 13.8 million stimulant pills will begin at the regional court. The investigations in the large-scale proceedings reveal remarkable things, a lawyer even speaks of a scandal.
It is a drug litigation of enormous dimensions that the regional court is additionally (organizationally) demanding due to the pandemic. From December 14th When & at the same time 14 defendants take their seats in the jury room in the dock: The eleven men and three women, as members of an international drug network of at least 20 people, with varying degrees of involvement in the offense, are to take at least 13.8 million captagon tablets with them from July 2016 to March 2021 smuggled in the highly stimulating active ingredient amphetamine, repackaged it here and sent it to Saudi Arabia for sale. Estimated sales value of the pills: around 40 million euros.
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