Nancy Cedeno, 34, of Laval, Que., is alleged to have supplied preapproved customs forms to drug traffickers

Nancy Cedeno, 34, of Laval, Que., is alleged to have supplied preapproved customs forms to drug traffickers so they could arrange to have their couriers go through the airport with luggage packed with cocaine without having to be searched.
Among other things, Cedeno is charged with accepting bribes while she worked for Canada Border Services Agency. Omar Riahi, 33, is alleged to have recruited Cedeno for traffickers who smuggled drugs through the airport with the Mafia’s support. Among the eight charges he faces are two related to allegedly corrupting Cedeno.
Riahi worked for Canada Border Services Agency in 2004 and is described in court documents as being a military police officer when he emerged as a suspect in Project Colisee, the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit investigation into the Mafia’s leaders and associates.Three people accused of acting as couriers for the drug traffickers — Jean Marie Fritz Balmir, 38, Julie Chateauneuf Fleury, 27, and Jean Michel Reacarld, 41 — are also part of the trial at the Montreal courthouse before Judge Claude Millette.All five are charged with taking part in a general plot to import cocaine into Canada. Mafia leaders like Francesco Arcadi and Francesco Del Balso are named as non-indicted co-conspirators in the charge. Both men are currently serving 15-year prison terms they received last year after pleading guilty last year to charges filed in Project Colisee. Ivan Enrique Bayter, 44, of Vaughn, Ont., was supposed to be part of the same trial but pleaded guilty to conspiracy and a gangsterism charge on May 4. Sentencing in his case is scheduled to begin in September