Avraham Kadoshi, who spent time with Roi Erez before going on a cruise from which he had yet to return, claimed: "Everything that advertisers publish is a lie,
The saga continues for Roi Erez, the Israeli citizen arrested while on his way to Jamaica and taken to Colombia.
According to reports, hundreds of kilograms of cocaine were found on the yacht he was sailing, and he is suspected of carrying drugs for commercial purposes.
Avraham Kadoshi, 74, who spent time with Erez in the weeks before his departure from Panama, was quoted in the newspaper Israel Hayom. "We were together for a few weeks, I sat with him for a few seconds before going on a journey."
According to Kadoshi, "Roe had no plan to go to Jamaica, everything that is published is a lie, and he told me he was going to sail in the Panamanian region and go back to Buccas, where we spent time together.
"Roi Erez was kidnapped by the Colombian army," Kadoshi claimed. "Roi was not in the area under their authority, he was in international waters, there was certainly a plot to bring him down, and anyone who knows him knows that he is such an innocent guy that he can not hurt a fly."
"The great sin of Roi is that he was a sailor, he ruined his life ... If someone in Israel does not wake up and save him, he will find it difficult to survive. How naive and good he is. "
In a statement, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: "The Israeli citizen on whose ship Colombian navy boarded, was brought to the island of San Andres in Colombia and is under investigation by the authorities. "