They arrest a Rosario accused of introducing cocaine into France on a sailboat

A 42-year-old man was arrested in Rosario, suspected of having integrated a drug trafficking organization that had attempted, in mid-2017, to enter France with more than a ton and a half of cocaine transported on a sailboat. At the request of international arrest of the French justice, Luciano Eugenio C. was arrested around Urquiza and Oroño Boulevard by members of the Federal Police and Interpol as part of 39, an investigation that put him in the line of fire when a sailboat was seized in Spain that was in his name and in which the drug was allegedly transported. In this context, "Lucho" C. was placed at the disposal of the federal judge No. 3 Rosario Carlos Vera Barros.

Sources from the Ministry of National Security confirmed the arrest of Lucho C., imprisoned around 18 Saturday in the vicinity of Oroño Boulevard and Urquiza. According to preliminary information, lives a relative of the man wanted by Interpol since a few months.

Beach packages

Spokespersons consulted in the case headed by Patricia Bullrich reviewed the case for which Luciano C. was arrested, which took place at the end of June 2017 on the beaches of Mimizan, in the south of France, when a transnational drug trafficking operation was dismantled. from a ton and a half of cocaine.

It seems that the drugs were transported by one or more boats having left a port located in the Caribbean Sea and the Cantabrian Sea, along the French coast, when, near the beaches cited of the French Basque country and following an accident they had to overboard all the cargo in the water.

Thus, hundreds of packages of cocaine reached the coast pushed by the waves and several people who were on board the boat, after being rescued, were arrested and involved in the operation of drug trafficking. As published by the newspaper France Soir, the seized drug had reached 1 900 kilos and its value on the European market was estimated at around one hundred million euros.

At that time, at least 11 people – seven of whom were Greek nationals – had been arrested. However, for a reason that was not made public yesterday, Argentina has not been stopped.

However, said spokespeople consulted yesterday, Luciano C. began to be searched after the identification of a sailboat named "Ayane" who was in his name and who was kidnapped in Spain. In this context, the district court of Bordeaux (France) has requested the request for international arrest of Argentina for the purpose of extradition.

This order was published in the Interpol systems for the crime of drug trafficking, then to the Federal Investigations Division on Fugitives and Extraditions of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) "began with intelligence tasks criminal to find the fugitive, "the sources said.

In this context, they added, the researchers established that "Lucho" could live in Rosario, so they sent a special brigade to look for him in this city. Thus, "after identifying the home of a family member and mounted surveillance at this address," the suspect was identified and arrested Saturday around 18 hours in this area, including Urquiza and Oroño.

Some investigative spokesmen said that in this area would live the suspect's mother, captured with a traveler's backpack.

Personal informations

As far as we know yesterday, Luciano Eugenio C. was born in Rosario but his family is from Firmat, where his father owned an important estate that he had left years ago. . He grew up in Rosario, where he lived with his parents and brother in an apartment in Paseo del Siglo. As was deduced from some of his profiles on social networks, in the 90s he received an English translator and also dominated the Italian.

He also claims to have studied foreign trade at the Rosario Stock Exchange, and among some of his businesses, there is one agribusiness and one software development and marketing company, a company called Blablare, of which he is the founder and CEO. that it is an app for learning and practicing english.

A glance at his Facebook profile shows that Luciano is pbadionate about sailing and travels many times around the world. He is pictured in Slovenia, Italy and Germany. Publications on this portal on your behalf are discontinued in 2015.