Italian caught with drug on sailboat in Funchal involved in millionaire’s death

One of the Italians detained by the Judicial Police at the Funchal marina with 326 kilos of cocaine transported inside the ‘Goldmund’ sailboat, Guido Consigli, is an old acquaintance of the Italian police.

The 61-year-old sailor was investigated and even convicted of being linked to the disappearance of Countess Fancesca Vacca Agusta, who died in January 2001, falling from a cliff in the village Altachiara in Portofino, after consuming cocaine, as recalled Il Secolo XIX newspaper.

According to the Italian publication, quoted by Notícias ao Minuto, Guido was one of the defendants to go to trial for implication on this fateful day and it was even proven that the heiress of the powerful Italian helicopter manufacturer Agusta bought the drug at his bar in Nervi. However, after being sentenced to one year and four months of actual imprisonment, the defendant was acquitted on appeal.

Apparently, according to the same source, the Genoese continues to have the bar open, but for the past two years he has been sailing the coast of the American continent. He passed through Miami, St Marteen and Rio de Janeiro.

Il Secolo XIX also reveals that it was even in South America that the suspects, who are now in preventive detention in Madeira, loaded the cocaine, enough for about 3 million individual doses and valued at 15 million euros.

When they embarked on the other side of the Atlantic, returning to Italy, with the sailboat already loaded, says the same newspaper, the Italians did not foresee stopping in the Madeira archipelago. However, a breakdown forced them to dock and ended up plotting them.

As for the other crew member detained in Funchal, Claudio Paradisi, 59, little is known. Only that despite living in Genoa, his birth was recorded in Rome.

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