Estonian drug traffickers caught

TALLINN - Three Estoniandrug 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 inCadiz in the southwest of thecountry.

The news agency linked the three Estonianswith a gang of international drug criminals suspected of the smuggling of alarge amount of cocaine from Latin America.

According to the Foreign Ministry 104 persons of Estonian ethnicity have been caught trafficking drugs from 2006 upto the present.

The biggest number of Estoniandrug traffickers have been detained in Finland:42 and a total of 28 drug Estoniantraffickers have been caught in Latin America since2006.

The Estonian Central CriminalPolice also have a certain role in detaining many Estonian traffickers in foreign countries. According to VeikoGermann, head of the drug squad, Estoniandrug traffickers are mainly irresponsible, uneducated young people.