Sticker Clue On Gżira Suitcase Led Police To Colombian Suspect

By Tim Diacono

December 14, 2024 at 12:25 pm

If you were wondering how the police managed to trace the body that was found in a floating suitcase to a Colombian suspect, then answers were provided in court today.

And it all has to do with a sticker on the suitcase.

Testifying against Andres Leonardo Gamboa Duran today, police inspector Wayne Camilleri said that investigators noted the suitcase still had a pricing sticker attached to it.

They traced this to a shop in San Ġwann and it turned out that the suitcase had been purchased very recently. CCTV footage also showed that the purchaser, who was eventually identified as Duran, returned to the store the next day to purchase an axe that the police believe was used to dismember the victim.

Police then tracked Duran to a Msida apartment, where they arrested him and a Portuguese national and seized several drug paraphernalia indicating a trafficking operation.

Duran was charged today with aggravated drug possession and trafficking, profiting from illicit proceeds, money laundering, tampering with criminal evidence and trying to hide a body. The Portuguese man is set to be charged separately.

Neither are set to be charged with murder as police believe that the victim, who they suspect was a drug mule, had died before his body was cut up.

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