Following a check by customs officers on the A31 last September, two Spanish nationals of Russian origin were searched during which a large sum of money was put in the custody. day.
€ 6,300 was found in the personal effects of the first, € 6,475 in the second.
Cash intended for their stay in Germany, the purpose of which will not be known, during the hearing on December 7.
The only certainty: the analysis of certain banknotes will reveal the presence of THC and cocaine. What to imagine a supposed traffic of narcotics. It is resolutely the feeling of the prosecution, doubting the origin of these funds, and Customs, who suspect money laundering for which they must be sanctioned.
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The interpreter spoke Serbian and not Russian
Through their Russian-speaking interpreter, the defendants, computer scientist and bar owner, swear that they do not consume drugs. They are unknown to justice.
In their defense, their council claims that they were going to a festival a priori and, above all, that the customs report on the day of the check is false, because the person who was supposed to translate the trade was only fluent in Serbian.
And to ask the judicial court of Thionville to release it outright. What was granted to them.
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