Bulgarian Officials Yet to Reach Busted 'Cocaine Ship' Sailors in Spain

On Thursday, Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov arrived on a two-day visit to Spain. File photo by BGNES

Bulgarian officials are yet to establish contact with the 21 Bulgarian sailors who were detained last week after a ship carrying 3 tons of cocaine was captured off Spain.

A Bulgarian diplomat is expected to meet with the detained sailors at the beginning of September, according to the Bulgarian National Radio.

The sailors are also expected to be interrogated by Spanish court officials at the beginning of next month.

On Thursday, Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov arrived on a two-day visit to Spain.

Tsvetanov is to meet with his Spanish counterpart Jorge Fernandez Diaz, National Police Director Ignacio Cosid? Guti?rrez, and the director of Spain's National Intelligence Centre against Organized Crime in order to discuss details on the case.

Last week, Spanish authorities nabbed 31 people, including 21 Bulgarians, after seizing 3 tons of cocaine brought from South America on a ship caught off the southern coast.

The operation codenamed Cartel has been carried out jointly by Bulgaria's Chief Directorate for Combating Organized Crime, the French police, the US DEA and the UK COKA.

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