The packages were sent against payment in cryptocurrency: five members of a family were arrested at the end of April in Haute-Savoie and in the Loire, suspected of drug trafficking on the “
darknet
”, announced the gendarmerie on Friday, May 7.
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In July 2018, a suspicious profile was spotted on encrypted internet networks, “
at the origin of a significant number of drug deliveries in France but also abroad: United States, Australia, Taiwan
», Indicates the same source.
Investigators lose track of him but find him in early 2020 on an encrypted messaging.
The specialized interregional court of Lyon, competent in matters of organized crime, entrusts the investigations to specialized gendarmes from the Lyon research section (SR).
In connection with the American customs and the Swiss judicial police, they discover that the orders are sent from France or Switzerland by delivery companies or by La Poste depending on the volume, the type of products (MDMA, heroin and cocaine) and the nature of the packaging.
On April 27, about sixty gendarmes from the SR of Lyon as well as groups from the Loire and Haute-Savoie intervened to arrest two women and three men, belonging to the same family, in these two departments. An underground laboratory for manufacturing and processing synthetic narcotics has been discovered. The searches also made it possible to seize 28,000 euros in cash, more than 500,000 euros in various cryptocurrencies as well as 9.4 kilos and 3.5 liters of MDMA, 22 kilos of precursor products, 1.5 kilos of cannabis heads, 625 grams of resin, 65 grams of crack and 18,400 tablets of ecstasy. Some of these products were packaged in a hundred envelopes ready to be shipped, adds the gendarmerie.
After their presentation to the investigating magistrate, four of the suspects were indicted, two of whom were remanded in custody and one under judicial supervision. The latter will be summoned later by the judge in charge of the case.
