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Ex-bodyguard to Guinea-Bissau ex-navy chief gets five years in U.S. prison
Source: Reuters
Ex-bodyguard to Guinea-Bissau ex-navy chief gets five years in U.S. prison
BY NATE RAYMOND
NEW YORK Mon Dec 8, 2014 5:29pm EST
(Reuters) - A onetime bodyguard to a former navy chief of Guinea-Bissau was sentenced on Monday to five years in a U.S. prison for engaging in a scheme to import hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into the United States.
Tchamy Yala, an ex-aide to former Rear Admiral Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in New York after pleading guilty to a conspiracy count in April.
"I made a mistake," Yala told the judge through a translator. "Nobody forced me to do what I did, and I did it willingly."
Poverty-stricken Guinea-Bissau is viewed by the United Nations as a major waypoint for Latin American cocaine headed for Europe. U.S. and European authorities have long suspected the West African country's military is involved in the drug trade.
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BY NATE RAYMOND
NEW YORK Mon Dec 8, 2014 5:29pm EST
(Reuters) - A onetime bodyguard to a former navy chief of Guinea-Bissau was sentenced on Monday to five years in a U.S. prison for engaging in a scheme to import hundreds of kilograms of cocaine into the United States.
Tchamy Yala, an ex-aide to former Rear Admiral Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in New York after pleading guilty to a conspiracy count in April.
"I made a mistake," Yala told the judge through a translator. "Nobody forced me to do what I did, and I did it willingly."
Poverty-stricken Guinea-Bissau is viewed by the United Nations as a major waypoint for Latin American cocaine headed for Europe. U.S. and European authorities have long suspected the West African country's military is involved in the drug trade.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/08/us-bissau-drugs-sentencing-idUSKBN0JM2H420141208
