'Innocent' parents face 30 years in jail for drug-smuggling after name tags put on cocaine-filled suitcases at airport | S3W05RQ | 2024-03-30 19:08:01
Mother and father Ahmed Hasan and Malak Treki now resist 30 years in jail and should never see their two younger sons grow up.
A COUPLE have been jailed in Turkey after airport "employees" put their luggage tags on suitcases containing 43kg of cocaine.
Mother and father Ahmed Hasan and Malak Treki now resist 30 years in jail and should never see their two younger sons grow up.
On October 22, 2022, the couple and their youngsters took a direct flight to Turkey from São Paulo Worldwide Airport, where they checked in two strollers and six suitcases.
However tags taken from one of the strollers have been used 4 days afterward luggage containing 43kg cocaine, Brazil cops stated.
An investigation by Brazilian police revealed that Ahmed and Malak have been the victims of a world gang swapping luggage on the airport.
But Turkish authorities have insisted the couple want to remain in prison till a ultimate trial in Might.
Dr Luna Provazio, the couple's solicitor in Brazil, informed The Sun how their youngsters – aged two and 4 – cry each day asking for his or her mother and father.
She stated: "The state of affairs is completely tragic. Ahmed and Malak are in horrible well being and emotionally unwell.
"The two boys are being taken care of by their grandparents in Libya however they cry day by day asking the place their mother and father are.
"They do not know of what's occurring."
Businessman Ahmed, who holds Brazilian citizenship, had decided to maneuver back to his native Libya after dwelling in Brazil for nearly two years.
When the household landed in Turkey on October 23, 2022, they picked up their baggage as anticipated and made it to Libya.
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The tags allegedly taken from Ahmed and Malaks baggage[/caption]
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The 43kg of cocaine seized in Turkey[/caption]
CCTV exhibits the alleged scammers swapping tags on suitcases from another couple[/caption]
However virtually seven months later, on Might 19 final yr, Ahmed travelled to Turkey on a enterprise trip – and was arrested upon landing.
It wasn't until the subsequent day – when he acquired a visit from a Turkish solicitor at a cell within the airport – that he came upon why he had been detained.
The 37-year-old beforehand informed Globo: "She [the solicitor] stated I was being accused of international drug trafficking.
"I obtained scared, I virtually died, it was an enormous shock to me."
Ahmed was detained for at some point and never allowed to go away Turkish territory till his first listening to on November 30 last yr in Istanbul.
But the worldwide drug trafficking charge also included his wife – who was in Libya with their two youngsters on the time.
She flew to Turkey after she was requested to also attend the hearing and each Ahmed and Malak have been held in prison ever since.
<!--googleoff: all--> <blockquote class="article__quote"> </blockquote> <!--googleon: all--> If convicted in Might, the couple resist 30 years in jail.
By then, their toddlers shall be of their 20s.
Dr Provazio advised The Solar how Turkish authorities made a mistake by not immediately informing Brazilian cops of the cocaine-filled luggage.
She stated: "The Turkish police seized the luggage and determined to research what occurred.
"Nevertheless, they didn't inform the Brazilian police. And that was the most important mistake.
"On the date the medicine arrived, Ahmed and Malak have been not in Istanbul.
"They have been dwelling their lives usually with out even figuring out they have been being investigated."
It meant an necessary piece of evidence was misplaced, she defined.
"If the Turkish police had notified the Brazilian authorities as soon as they found the suitcases, we might in all probability have CCTV photographs displaying the tags being swapped," Dr Provazio stated.
"That might have been immense proof of Ahmed and Malak's innocence.
"Sadly, Brazil's Federal Police not has the pictures from October 2022, as their back-up only lasts from 30 to 60 days.
"What's worse, Brazil spent seven months with out understanding what occurred to considered one of its citizens."
Dr Provazio stated although there are not any pictures, cops in Brazil have been capable of conclude the couple have been harmless based mostly on different proof.
"For instance, the tag used by the gang to send cocaine was the tag the gang took from a part of their baby stroller," she stated.
"The part of the stroller weighed 5kg and the gang positioned that same label on a suitcase weighing 43kg. The numbers don't add up.
"The police also found traces that the label had been handled and was very poorly glued, not to point out that the suitcase didn't even go on the identical flight, however four days later."
<!--googleoff: all--> <blockquote class="article__quote"> </blockquote> <!--googleon: all--> Ahmed and Malak's trial now scheduled to happen in Might – and Dr Provazio hopes their nightmare shall be finally over by then.
"We've got nice evidence of innocence. There's no purpose for Turkish authorities to be so rigid like that," she stated.
"They weren't produced by legal professionals, however by the Federal Police.
" So we are calm and confident concerning the high quality of evidence.
"We hope to provide more clarity to Turkey, which maybe they don't seem to be so aware of, that this crime has truly occurred before – as weird as it might seem."
It comes as two Brazilian women also fell victim to the same cocaine suitcase scam.
Dr Provazio was also the solicitor for Jeanne Paolini and Katyna Baia, who embarked for a holiday in Germany but ended up imprisoned for 38 days last yr.
The couple have been arrested in Frankfurt on suspicion of international drug trafficking after cops discovered cocaine in suitcases labelled with their names.
Jeanne and Katyna have been solely released after photographs from Sao Paulo airport revealed the felony motion of "staff" who took care of transporting the bags to the aircraft.
Personal coach Katyna previously informed The Sun: "We have been responsible till proven harmless, and treated like convicted criminals from the beginning."
CCTV exhibits the alleged scammers swapping tags on different suitcases in a earlier case[/caption]
The international drug gang operated from the São Paulo International Airport[/caption]
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