Say they cannot take action due to ‘jurisdictional issues’
PANJIM, MAY 17
The CID Crime Branch today said it cannot take any action into reports of death threats by Israeli drug dealer Yaniv Benahim alias Atala to his former girlfriend and Swedish model Lucky Farmhouse, citing ‘jurisdictional issues’.
Lucky had exposed the police-drugs mafia nexus in Goa by uploading a spycam video on youtube.com wherein Atala admitted to links with Police Inspector Ashish Shirodkar.
The Crime Branch instead of acting on the reports has said that the Swedish police should look into the matter as Lucky Farmhouse was in Sweden when she was threatened.
Speaking to reporters Crime Branch Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) Chandrakant Salgaonkar, said that it was for the local police to investigate the death threats to Lucky from her ex boyfriend and dreaded drug dealer Yaniv Benail alias Atala.
“We have to see where she was, when the threats were made to her by phone. There are jurisdictional issues,” Salgaonkar said adding “We should also see where the phone calls came from.”
“If the call was made here then the local police station will have to look into the death threats but if she was in Sweden, when the call was made then maybe the Swedish police should be told to probe,” Salgaonkar continued.
Lucky in an interview has also claimed that she is in possession of spycam videotapes, which establishes the links of an influential politician’s son to the narcotics mafia in Goa.
So far seven police officials including a police inspector and a sub inspector have already been arrested for their links to Goa’s notorious narcotics mafia over the last two months.
In a development yesterday, fresh recordings surfaced which revealed that Atala had threatened to kill Lucky using senior police officials.
The Crime Branch officials have already been accused of sabotaging the high profile probe into the police-politician narcotics mafia nexus by the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.
