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Montreal.– An international businessman has been sentenced to serve the equivalent of a 12-year prison term for smuggling several hundred kilos of cocaine into Canada.

Yvan Cech, a 65-year-old Quebec City resident who also lived in the Dominican Republic, where he owned a hotel-casino, learned of the sentence at the Montreal courthouse Thursday. With the time he has already spent behind bars factored in, Cech has six years left to serve.

Defense lawyer Julio Peris had asked Superior Court Justice Guy Cournoyer for a sentence that would give his client only three years left to serve.

The prosecution asked that Cech serve 13 years because he played a major role in the drug smuggling conspiracy, uncovered by a police investigation dubbed Project Fusion, where cocaine was smuggled into Quebec after being packed in aluminum ingots in Venezuela.

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Written by: easyrider, 18 Apr 2009 1:19 PM
From: Dominican Republic, La Romana
This topic speaks of one of the only two industries in Venezuela, Oil and exportaion of Illegal drugs. As the price of petrolium drops the production of illegal drugs will probably rise to fill in the gap.
Written by: xwill7, 20 Apr 2009 10:57 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
The Canadians think that DR is their playground for crime??? Kick the bad ones out!
Written by: FredCDobbs This user is banned, 1 May 2009 7:13 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
Written by: xwill7, 20 Apr 2009 10:57 AM
From: United States, Chicago
The Canadians think that DR is their playground for crime??? Kick the bad ones out!..........If you lived in a snow bank and were from a place like Poutinville Que you would also think it was a playground
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