Two foreign nationals originally charged with conspiring to bring drugs into Bermuda have pleaded guilty to lesser charges of money laundering and possessing the proceeds of crime.

This morning Andrew Blatchley, 58, of Charleston, South Carolina, pleaded guilty at Supreme Court to money laundering the proceeds from drug trafficking.

On Friday Peter Sagos, 36, from Ottawa, Canada, pleaded guilty to possessing the proceeds of criminal conduct.

Both men denied conspiring to import cannabis into the Island between a date unknown and September 23 last year.

Prosecutor Cindy Clarke accepted those pleas. Sagos is due to be sentenced tomorrow while Blatchley will be sentenced Friday.

* For the full story read tomorrow’s Royal Gazette.