Mr Quinteros couldn't hear what was said, but said a colleague took photos of those present and in opening the Crown case yesterday, prosecutor Kingi Snelgar said Peter Phillip Leaitua was at the meeting.
In September 2011 Leaitua, his partner, two children and mother-in-law Sorlinda Aristizabal Vega flew from Argentina to Auckland.
Ms Aristizabal, a Colombian national who was 37, had 584 grams of cocaine inside her and she died of an overdose of the class A drug the day after landing.
Three of the 27 packets containing the drug had broken inside her intestines, causing cocaine to fatally leach into her system.
The Crown says Leaitua, 43, was a party to the offending. He had met the drug dealers in Argentina, arranged Ms Vega's visa and travelled with the mule to keep an eye on her and her haul.
Before Justice Edwin Wylie and a jury, Leaitua is on trial facing one charge of importing cocaine.
The defence says Ms Vegas was acting alone and Leaitua wasn't involved in his mother-in-law's smuggling.
Sergeant Ariel Dominquez said he listened to a phone call between a member of the drugs ring and a man with a foreign accent, during which the pair arranged to meet.
Another Argentine police officer, Sergeant Hernan Araujo, told the court police intercepted calls between the Argentine drug ring's members after Leaitua and his family arrived in New Zealand.
"We heard about the death of a Colombian woman," he said.
Later in 2011, Argentine police swooped on members of the ring, arresting those involved and searching properties, where they found evidence of drug dealing.
The trial continues.
