The case of the Russian woman – arrested after attempting to smuggle 2.5kgs of cocaine into the Maldives – has been sent to the Prosecutor General’s (PG) office.
Purtova Angelina – a 25-year-old Russian national – was arrested on January 27 this year when she arrived in the Maldives from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Deputy Prosecutor General Hussein Shameem has confirmed with Minivan News that police have finished their investigation, and that the case was forwarded to the PG last Thursday (April 3). Shameem estimated that the court hearing will take place within the next week.
“We don’t know yet what the decision will be, we will have to wait until the court hearing next week.” Shameem told Minivan.
Purtova, a makeup artist, allegedly has a history of distributing cocaine to a number of countries and has associations with a large drug trafficking network in Europe, according to Haveeru.
According to the reports, Angelina had been reported missing by her family when she arrived in the Maldives. Family members and friends had used social media networks to try and find her.
On January 26 2014, the Criminal Court ruled that Philippines national Jenerosa Pancho Mapula was guilty of smuggling 3 kgs of cocaine into the Maldives, and fining her MVR100,000 (USD 6510) and sentencing her to life imprisonment.
The Criminal Court ruling stated that, on April 24, 2013, Jenerosa arrived in the Maldives at about 8:50am and that police searched her luggage after receiving intelligence reports that she was carrying illegal narcotics.
Jenerosa denied the charges, the court said, though according to witnesses produced in court the drugs were found inside her luggage. Jenerosa was ordered to pay the fine within one month.
The Law on Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances stipulates that a foreign national charged with importing over 1 gram of narcotics will be sentenced to life imprisonment. There is also a possibility of received a minimum fine of MVR10,000 (US$651).
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She'll be allowed to go free. After all, the government knows that one Russian long-range bomber can reduce Maldives to fine, radioactive dust.
So the law is different for foreigners than for locals? So far for "everyone is equal for the law". Well in The Maldives that never was the case of course.
Isn't she a cousin of Arthur brothers. Ask the Tourism Minister, Adheeb!!!!
if i were her, i'd not pay the fine. the hell she will be imprisoned for life anyway.
cant help but wonder what really is the root cause ppl trafic cocaine or other narcotics and thats the real question init?. that women's life is over now. wasted over an attempt to make an easy way out of the capitalistic system so rich with corruption, embazzlement and wrong doings. what a shame. thats a humans life we are talking abt.