The "SKY ECC" file in Belgium, the trafficker testifies: I owed 50 thousand euros to the Albanians

In recent days, the "SKY ECC" mega-trial has continued in Belgium with 128 defendants, accused of international cocaine trafficking, including the businessman from Vlora, Eridan Munoz Guerrero.

Hassan T.'s lawyer asked for a "reality-based and individualized" decision before the Brussels criminal court on Wednesday as part of submissions in the Sky ECC trial. The defendant is suspected of running a criminal organization active in drug trafficking, brought to light after the decryption of the "Encrochat" and "Sky ECC" messages.

Hassan T. is suspected of having organized the importation of narcotics into Belgian soil, including a shipment flown in from Brazil. However, according to his lawyer, the defendant was not the head of a criminal organization. On the contrary, he acted as a simple member of a criminal association, without any particular hierarchy.

"We must understand the actions of Hassan T. as those of an economic actor, who used the messages of "Sky ECC" to position himself in the narcotics market in an opportunistic way", the criminal lawyer underlines. "There was never any question about a lab, a driver or a money company."

The defendant used "Sky as the LinkedIn of narcotics", summarizes the lawyer. He put people in touch and took a commission on their transactions, in an almost parasitic attitude. He had no powers of control, just an address book.

The fifty-year-old's lawyer also questioned the legitimacy of the confiscation of two million euros and the fine of 800,000 euros requested by the federal prosecutor. "Entangled in a debt of 50,000 euros to some Albanians, my client had to pretend that he was going to Spain to escape his creditors", the lawyer underlines. "If we really find ourselves in front of the leader of a criminal organization, it's an organization that didn't have a lot of money," he said.

The prosecution had asked for 20 years of imprisonment for Hassan T. His lawyer, for his part, asked the court for a punishment "related to reality and individualized".

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