15 Russian seamen, who were arrested about a year ago in the Spanish port of Huelva, confessed to the smuggling of drugs, reports RIA Novosti. During the trial on Monday, May 25, agreed to exchange the sailors confessed to the reduction of sentence from 4,5 to 3 years.
Without the recognition of seafarers likely to mitigate the sentence had been minimal, contends the agency. Russians admitted their guilt at the initiative of the lawyer, Antonio Lorenzo Amador.
Seafarers - employees of JSC Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet "- were arrested in May 2008 in the port city of Huelva, together with the citizens of Spain, Poland, Ukraine, Romania and Morocco during the unloading bales of hashish with a foreign vessel, coming from Morocco. The Russians were recruited by traffickers for over 4 tons of drugs with an inflatable motor boats of smugglers in the car.
Since the detention of Russian citizens in detention, the duration of pre-trial detention will be deducted from their prison term. For the same case are 19 other people, their fate is not separately reported.
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