14-year jail term for drug trafficker
Romanian pleads guilty to drug trafficking and avoids trial by jury.
Romanian national, Gabriel Alin Fister was jailed for 14 years and fined €25,000 after pleading guilty to drug trafficking.
Pleading guilty also meant avoiding a trial by jury.
The 29-year-old man who lives in Germany conspired with people in Malta to import around a kilo of cocaine and heroin.
Fister arrived in Malta on a flight from Amsterdam in March 2009. His suspicious behavior attracted the attention of a customs officer who searched his luggage. The drugs were found in a false bottom of his suitcase.
The street value of the drug was of €68,461.
In the same compartment customs officers also found a kilo of 35.4% pure heroin. The drug's value on the streets was €45,000.
Mr Justice Lawrence Quintano handed Fister a 14-year jail term and ordered him to pay €25,000.