Estonian drug traffickers caught
TALLINN - Three Estonian drug traffickers of an international drug ring were detained in Spain.
The Foreign Ministry spokeswoman told the Baltic News Service that the drug traffickers were detained in Cadiz in the southwest of the country.
The news agency linked the three Estonians with a gang of international drug criminals suspected of the smuggling of a large amount of cocaine from Latin America.
According to the Foreign Ministry 104 persons of Estonian ethnicity have been caught trafficking drugs from 2006 up to the present.
The biggest number of Estonian drug traffickers have been detained in Finland: 42 and a total of 28 drug Estonian traffickers have been caught in Latin America since 2006.
The Estonian Central Criminal Police also have a certain role in detaining many Estonian traffickers in foreign countries. According to Veiko Germann, head of the drug squad, Estonian drug traffickers are mainly irresponsible, uneducated young people.
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