DRUGS ON SAILBOAT: TWO RUSSIANS SENTENCED TO 7 YEARS IN PRISON, WOMAN ACQUITTED

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

The judgment of three Russian citizens, two men and a woman, accused of drug trafficking, after being caught with cocaine on a sailboat in Madeira, was read today.

The two men were convicted of the crime of simple trafficking, with a sentence of 7 years and 7 months in prison and expulsion from national territory, after serving the sentence, for a period of five years.

The woman was acquitted and, therefore, returned to freedom, a decision by the judge received with tears of relief by the young woman.

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26 Responses

    1. They were coming over here to apply for the golden Visa but liked to pay in a different ‘currency’…….
      They imagined that the Government would accept Cocaine as a payment because rubbles are useless over here…….??

  2. Well well like I said may times not only the locals but also the tourists that can bring any type of drugs by air or the selling yachts that are passing through for a short time or even vacation or even the big cruise ships or any other ships .And there is a need to the police to be more vigilant with this and control better the airport entrances and the sea with selling boats and the cruises that come or even any other type of boat. Since the number of tourists is increasing the Madeira government should create a task force to deal only with this in the air and sea. Well done the police and everyone involved .

    1. ..”the Madeira government should create a task force…” NRP Mondego for example ??

      1. BJR
        What is the problem of a task force to deal only with drugs ? At least be lest getting in the island and less circulating around .

  3. “Max” the GNR canine officer is being kept very busy here on Porto Santo. There has been a real focus on enforcement this year which can be seen by the results!

    1. Mike
      Excellent news and at least they are trying to stop them getting in and distributed in the islands .

  4. Danny
    The only around were out of control it is you like a broken disk . ??

  6. There never was an “old Madeira”, as there was never a Camelot. I was here for a short period in the late 60s. A small area around Reid’s and the Old Savoy was Heaven for a few fortunate tourists. The main thought in locals minds was how leave the island. Come the 80s, the Lido area had seen some mass tourist hotels built and employment became a possibility. Time Share followed, of which I bought two, Funchal tidied up it’s act and took what was a piece of rough ground, turning it into the Cable Car park. If you want to see Old Madeira, lift your eyes up from the Menus in the Old Town, glance up one or two stories, use the Cable Car and have a look below as you go over Funchal, go off the main streets and look at the properties people lived in. That was the”Old Madeira” that everyone say’s is a shame we lost. Then ask some of the older locals if they would be happy return to those conditions. Then ask yourself.

  7. George, We don’t need to go that far back ? just back to before the pandemic started when it was a beautiful island not so many tourists drugs and crime ? imagine what Madeira will become in a short few years? It will become a zombie drug addicts paradise riddled with crime ? and the government does not care, only interested in tourists.

    1. Danny
      . Then you should move and live where I live in Sintra right in the historic centre that during the pandemic was heaven and now is more tourist than locals residents and when arrives summer will be even more tourists and then you will not complaining anymore about Madeira . And like I said you can’t go one saying that one part of the Madeira population is dealing and the other half using it is a complete disrespect and insult towards their people.

  8. Let us be honest, I came here 50 years plus, years ago and have been coming since, when did you ? In over that 50 years I have never been offered drugs. Have you? Where do you frequent to be offered them ? Why have you this obsession with them ? Why do you think this is anything worse than the UK ? I love Madeira, but recognise it’s problems, why do you glory in bringing down Madeira. I’m sorry Toby but this guy’s an Arsehole.

    1. The guy maybe a ” Arsehole” for you? but it’s true what he is saying – Control your language.

      1. James /Danny
        I’m from Madeira and left in 1999 and lived in the UK until 2018 /19 and been many times in Madeira island and I know Funchal very well and I never saw any dealings or even was offered any drugs when I went there . My conclusion about this is that you James and Danny that seem to have so much information and knowledge about the subject is that both you and the other pass all the time visiting that areas because are dealing and selling drugs and even consuming them since talk so much about the problem . And what is true? Until you and the other show evidence that Madeira island half of the population is dealing drugs and the other half is using that means that the entire population needs half to jail and the other to rehab . You and the other need to show that is true with evidence and proves that the Island and their population is becoming zombie drug addicts paradise riddled with crime . I have never seen so much insult and disrespect towards Madeira island their people coming from this two people it is just unbelievable . That means when I go to Madeira will be full zombies and drug dealing and full of addicts paradise with crime? And what about your country that you live ? Is so perfect that there isn’t any type of crime and neither drugs ?

    2. Nabbs
      What James and Danny
      What they don’t want is mass tourism they want the Island only for themselves . And not denying that there is problems when there is . .

  9. Isabel, there is no evidence, one small story in the local paper every ten days or so and Funchal is the equivalent of Birmingham. I,ll keep my head out of the sand when given facts and figures and locations instead of sweeping, thoughtless generalisations by one topic wonders who bravely write under a pen name.

  10. Danny no one is sweeping under the carpet the problems it is you over generalizing complete and not showing any respect for the local people .

  11. Danny
    The king of the broken record the crown isn’t mine anymore . ??

  13. That isn’t a fact, It’s an opinion. Facts are numbers, locations, dates and names, not unresearched, uncheckable, lazy, generalisations snatched from who knows where.

  14. Danny
    Nothing else to add beside the same thing over and over again. Like I said, let’s hope that the locals start seeing your comments and one day someone will prosecute you . This isn’t very nice implying and even saying this type of things about Madeira shows the complete disrespect and insult towards their people and the island and their people . And neither you read or even see the local news in the TV161 or even read the local newspapers like I do many others do and this things that you saying and implying not happening constantly every single like you are trying to imply shows very clear that what you trying to do slandering the island and their people .

  15. I think something worth mentioning is that I did research this a few weeks ago, and the problem seems to be mostly in the center of Funchal (around Sé, the Anadia, etc.), but the rest of Funchal (and Madeira) seems to have a pretty low incidence of illegal drug use, as it used to before the crisis.

    That essentially means that somebody who lives in those areas will have a pretty different outlook on how prevalent drug use is compared to somebody who lives in, say, Ribeira Brava

    1. Also worth mentioning that, from what I’ve seen at least, the crisis seems to be almost entirely caused by bloom (alpha-PVP) – I can’t really find any incidents of people being harmed or committing crimes after taking softer drugs like cannabis or LSD, and the number of users doesn’t seem to have really changed either

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