Investigators to strike against smugglers: leaders arrested
Created: 04/21/2022, 15:04
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In a strike against internationally active drug dealers, the investigators also arrested the alleged boss of the gang.
As reported by the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office (LKA), a 39-year-old German was arrested early Thursday morning with the help of the local police in Dubai.
Born in Hanover, he moved to the city in the United Arab Emirates at the end of 2020.
Hanover - At that time, his longtime friend took over the business in Hanover.
The 43-year-old was arrested in Spain along with two accomplices in mid-March 2022.
He is also a leader.
The group is accused, among other things, of having shipped more than 23 tons of cocaine from South and Central America to the European Union.
The record find of 16 tons of cocaine in February 2021 in the port of Hamburg is also assigned to her.
The drugs were in containers from Paraguay.
According to the LKA, the alleged perpetrators disguised the drugs with the help of goods.
So they would have hidden cocaine in putty tin cans.
Banana and coffee deliveries were also used to conceal drugs.
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Already on Wednesday there were searches in Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Paraguay.
According to the authority, numerous pieces of evidence were secured and assets worth millions confiscated.
In Germany alone, eleven suspects were arrested, it was said.
dpa