Suriname’s former police commissioner, Ruben Peiter, has been sentenced to seven years in jail after he was discovered responsible in a felony case involving the invention of a amount of cocaine in September 2021.
Peiter, together with police inspector Dennis Esajas, who was additionally sentenced to seven years in jail, stood earlier than Justice Maureen Dayala along with three different individuals within the felony case surrounding the invention of 478 kilograms of cocaine on September 1, 2021.
The case had attracted nationwide consideration not solely due to the quantity of medication seized, however additionally the involvement of the retired senior cops, who had been arrested and brought into custody on October 13, 2021.
The police mentioned the medication had been present in a van that was parked within the storage of a home the place a 31-year-old lady from the Dominican Republic was arrested. However experiences later indicated that she was in a relationship with Rodrigues Marciano ‘Mao’ Landveld, who was additionally earlier than the courtroom on the drug associated cost.
Landveld, who was arrested on October 10, 2021, was sentenced in absentia to an eight-year jail time period for complicity in transporting medication. He has been on the run because the case began.
The courtroom heard that Peiter and Esajas had pushed the van with the medication from one place to a different location. The cocaine is believed to have come from the burned-out aircraft that was found close to the Adyumabergi.
Peiter and Esajas had been discovered responsible by the decide of intentionally transporting medication. For complicity within the intentional transport of medication, one other defendant recognized solely as GS was sentenced to 10 months’ imprisonment, much less time spent in pre-trial detention.
One other individual, Gene Okay, who was mentioned to have most likely rented the van, was acquitted of all prices.
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