It was at the beginning of September last year that 69 kilos of cocaine were found on the beach in Nyhamnsläge outside Höganäs.
Suspicions were raised against two men from Stockholm, 34 and 22 years old, who ended up in distress in the Sound the night before and the Swedish Customs started listening to their mobile phones.
The cocaine floated ashore
Information in the telephone tapping enabled the men to be linked to the cocaine that had flown ashore.
They were arrested and later charged with extremely serious drug smuggling.
They have admitted that they were looking for cocaine - but they deny smuggling.
On Wednesday, the Helsingborg District Court's ruling came in the case.
Both men are sentenced for attempted extremely serious drug offenses.
The 34-year-old gets ten years in prison and the 22-year-old six years in prison.
A 36-year-old woman is also sentenced to three years in prison for aiding and abetting an attempted extremely serious drug offense, among other things for having rented a car and a boat trailer and with the help of these transported a boat to Ängelholm.
Free from smuggling
The district court writes in the judgment that the 34-year-old, in the intercepted telephone conversations, told in detail about the assignment, about the compensation for this and about how they failed to find the bags with cocaine.
The 22-year-old and the 36-year-old woman have also told about this in telephone conversations and the district court therefore considers that it has been shown that all three had insight into what the handling meant.
On the other hand, the district court is of the opinion that it has not emerged that the men had a role as clients or participants in the planning of the smuggling and they are therefore exempt from extremely serious drug smuggling.
The woman is also released from aiding and abetting extremely serious drug smuggling.
Longer punishment for the 34-year-old
The 34-year-old man is included in 35 sections in the indictment register and had, just a few days before the incident in the Sound, been released from a four-month prison sentence.
The district court considers that it has been clear that the 34-year-old has contacts in the second stage of organized crime and that he was the initiator of the crime.
Therefore, he gets a longer prison sentence than the 22-year-old man.
Hear the conversation that revealed the suspected smuggler:
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"They threw out 100 kilos of coke."
Hear the conversations between the suspected smugglers.
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