Aug
18
Bulgarian police have questioned the owner of a merchant ship intercepted off the coast of Spain earlier this week with three tonnes of cocaine on board, the interior minister said Saturday.
“There is no way that the owner of this ship did not know what it was transporting,” Tsvetan Tsvetanov told TV7 in an interview.
Doychin Doychev, who owns and manages the Bulgarian-flagged vessel Saint Nikolay, was briefly held for questioning Friday but released for the time being without charge.
Tsvetanov said in an interview with 24 Hours newspaper Saturday that Doychev was also the owner of another vessel, Vanessa, sunk in the Sea of Azov in 2008, which he said “was also suspected of carrying a huge cocaine load.”
In Monday’s operation, Spanish police arrested 21 Bulgarian crewmembers as well as six Colombians in Madrid and four Spaniards in the northwestern Spain’s Galicia region.
Two more Bulgarians, including the suspected mastermind, were later arrested in Sofia.
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