Following a case of international cocaine trafficking, Véronique Dion, a 43-year-old Ivorian and police officer, was acquitted by the courts in Côte d'Ivoire. Four people involved were convicted in the cocaine trafficking case. But Véronique Dion was acquitted by the courts in Côte d'Ivoire. According to a statement from the prosecutor of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, transmitted Thursday to APA, the facts date back to September 17, 2018, when the customs services of the Port of Santos in Brazil seized 1.19 tons of cocaine hidden inside steel rollers of several Caterpillar-type devices, hollowed out for this purpose.
The statement notes that the analysis of the documents relating to these devices, which had to be loaded on a ship to be unloaded at the Port of Abidjan in Côte d'Ivoire, revealed that they had been ordered by the company AGL based in Abidjan, Cocody les ll Plateaux.
An investigation carried out over several months in accordance with the United Nations Convention of 15 November 2000 on Transnational Crime revealed, inter alia, that the partners of AGL, an Italian national, were in contact with a police officer of Ivorian nationality and that their activity consisted in the introduction of coca. ïne in Côte d'Ivoire when importing Caterpillar construction machinery from Latin America.
Angelo Ardolino, 57, Italian, Manager of AGL; Antonio Cuomo, 54, Italian, Technical Director of AGL; Vincenzo Giuliano, 62, Italian, Restaurateur; Guiseppe Ramaglia, 46, Italian, company director and Véronique Dion, 43, Ivorian and police officer are the people arrested in the context of the proceedings.