2025-12-11
'Narco boat' conspirators get combined 70 years as judge notes they 'totally underestimated' local communities and law enforcement
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Mario Angel Del Rio Sanz (46), Anuar Rahui Chairi (43), Juan Antonio Gallardo Barroso (56), Pedro Pablo Ojeda Ortega (37), and Angel Serran Padilla (41), were handed sentences ranging from 8 to 11 years each at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today for their parts in the failed drug smuggling operation. Kiumaars Ghabiri, an Iranian national resident in the Netherlands, along with Mario Angel Del Rio Sanz and Anuar Rahui Chairi from Spain, who had all been on land during the attempted smuggling operation, each received 11 years imprisonment.