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The "SKY ECC" process starts today in Belgium with 40 defendants, the leaders of the Albanian network
2024-04-08 08:49:04 / AKTUALITET
Forty people are on trial from this Monday, April 8, at the Brussels Criminal Court for a case of international drug trafficking. The investigation began in September 2020 after the discovery of several kilograms of cannabis and a large amount of acetone in a garage box in the Brussels region.
The issue took on an additional dimension when it appeared that the data resulting from the infiltration and decryption of the "SKY ECC" application could enrich the research. The messaging app was used by criminals to communicate secretly.
Thanks to the decryption of the communications, the police were able to identify contacts in several South American countries, specify the traffickers' activities and detail the structure of the organization. The criminal network, whose leaders are the defendants of Albanian nationality A. H, I. K and A. I, is suspected of having imported several tons of cocaine, especially through the port of Antwerp. According to information gathered by the RTBF, the drug was hidden in legal goods such as fruit pulp. The investigations led in particular to the seizure of a barrel of liquid in which the equivalent of 600 kilograms of cocaine had been diluted.
Cocaine diluted in fruit pulp
Traffickers used the technique of diluting or impregnating drugs into seemingly harmless products to more easily bypass police and customs controls. Members at the lower level of the organization, nicknamed "cooks" or "chemists", were then responsible for extracting cocaine from the goods in clandestine laboratories. To give the narcotic its form for sale on the illegal market, they used chemicals, such as acetone. The investigations made it possible to identify the Colombian suspects, brought to Belgium to carry out the extraction work.
The investigation carried out by the "major banditry" investigation division (DR1) of the federal judicial police in Brussels, under the direction of an investigating judge and the federal prosecutor's office, extended to several European countries. On February 15, 2022, nearly 50 checks were carried out in Belgium. Sixty others took place simultaneously in Spain, Italy, Germany, Croatia and the Netherlands. The suspects, some of whom are still wanted, will be tried in Brussels for drug violations, extortion, theft, forgery, money laundering and weapons violations.
An Albanian criminal network and Colombian "chemists".
Several persons prosecuted in this case have already been convicted in the past for drug trafficking. On the other hand, the Colombian M. C is currently being tried for the "Encro" case, the biggest drug trafficking case that has ever been handled in Belgium. In an interview given to "Moustique. LaLibre" at the end of March and reported by the Albanian press, lawyer Nathalie Gallant has analyzed the trial that opens this April 8 in the light of the "Encro" affair.
"There will be another Albanian criminal organization, which has some overlaps with Encron, since one or the other is accused in both processes", pointed out the criminal lawyer who defends in the two cases the suspected leader of a criminal organization. Nathalie Gallant added that, in the context of the case judged from this Monday, "it seems that we still have connections at much higher levels in terms of political contacts in Albania and the reinvestment of possible financial benefits that come from illegal activities". The file was nicknamed "BlackEagle". The trial will last several weeks.
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