Cocaine mastermind arrested after drug mules revealed his identity

Two women who are currently detained at Corradino prisons after being caught bringing cocaine to Malta, which was hidden in their private parts, cooperated with the police to the extent that they revealed the identity of the man who lured them to Malta with the promise of paying them €1,000 each.

Olga Lucia Rativa Restrepo from Colombia and Sandra Castano, from Spain, both 38, were arrested last month at Malta International Airport soon after arriving from Madrid.

Police Inspector Malcolm Bondin testified before Magistrate Miriam Hayman that the two women had helped the police arrest the accused, 35 year-old Colombian national Wilder Lopez Garcia, known as 'Caco' and who resided in St. Julian's.

Days after she was arraigned and kept under preventive arrest at Corradino Prisons, Olga Lucia Rativa Restrepo informed the police that she wanted to give information.

She said that on her first trip to Malta a year ago, she had met Garcia at St. George's Bay who had offered her a good sum of money to import drugs to Malta from Spain but she refused at first.

He contacted her eight months later in Spain, and this time she accepted because she needed the money. 

She roped in her friend, Sandra Castano and he arranged for the women to meet another woman in a disco in Madrid.