The defendant in the “cocaine case” Kovalchuk said his bags were coffee, cigars and cognac
The defendant in the “cocaine case” Andrey Kovalchuk denies his guilt in smuggling the drug, reports “Rosbalt”.
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According to Kovalchuk, in July 2016 he bought in Buenos Aires a batch of coffee, cigars and cognac. The cargo was placed in the utility room school attached to the Embassy, where the caretaker worked mate Andrei Kovalchuk Ali Abanov. In November 2016 Mr Abanova fired, and the transfer of cases to the new caretaker warned the fact that the room is left Luggage Mr. Kovalchuk.
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Kovalchuk said that repeatedly tried to pick up your item, but every time he refused, under various pretexts. When the bags were opened, there was a white powder.
Andrey Kovalchuk believes that someone tampered with a batch of coffee for cocaine. He was planning soon to fly to Moscow and to give satisfactory indications, but after the resulting scandal “took the time to think”.
About the discovery of the 12 suitcases of cocaine in the school building on the territory of the Russian Embassy in Buenos Aires, it became known in mid-February. The drug was found in December 2016. Nearly 400 kg of cocaine worth about €50 million was intended to send to Russia.
From the territory of Argentina was in charge of smuggling a Russian COP Ivan Bliznyuk and security officer of the airport Alexander Chica. In December 2017 in the framework of the joint operation of the two countries, the suitcases were sent to Russia filled with flour. But it is not known how exactly they were taken. The cargo met a former employee of the Russian Embassy in Argentina Ali Abanov and entrepreneurs Vladimir Kalmykov and Istimer Khudzhamov. They were detained, the court then held them to 13 April. The alleged organizer of the smuggling Andrei Kovalchuk, as suggested by the FSB, is hiding in Germany.