Sentenced to six to ten years
Páll Jónsson, Daði Björnsson, Jóhannes Páll Durr and Birgir Halldórsson. mbl.is/Eggert Jóhannesson
The four defendants in the big cocaine case were given heavy sentences this morning. A judge of the District Court of Reykjavík sentenced the four men to six to ten years in prison.
Páll Jónsson received a sentence of ten years, Daði Björnsson received a sentence of six years and six months, Jóhannes Páll Durr received a sentence of six years, and Birgir Halldórsson received an eight-year prison sentence.
Jóhannes was the only defendant to appear in court at the sentencing.
In addition to the prison sentences, the defendants must pay more than eleven million dollars each in legal costs, and more than one million in case costs.
The case is the largest cocaine case in the country, with four men convicted of importing 99.25 kilograms of cocaine into the country from Brazil, via route in Netherlands, where the drugs were seized by the authorities. The drugs were concealed in seven treelogs.
The prosecutor asked for the maximum sentence in the case, but Anna Barbara Andradóttir, the prosecutor with the district attorney’s office, said that it was up to the court to assess the sentence, which referred to previous convictions, including a 12-year sentence in the so-called salt spreader case.
