Swedish Court Jails 11 Over Record Cocaine Seizure
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Swedish Court Jails 11 Over Record Cocaine Seizure
A Swedish court on Monday sentenced 11 people over the country’s biggest-ever cocaine bust. In April 2024, authorities seized 1.3 tonnes of cocaine hidden in a shipping container at the port of Norvik, just south of Stockholm. The drugs had an estimated street value of $126 million. A total of 17 people were charged in connection with the case. The district court in Södertörn, also south of the capital, found 11 guilty of drug-related offences, …
In April last year, 1.3 tons of cocaine were seized in Nynäshamn. The find was estimated to be worth over one billion kronor and is the largest cocaine seizure in Swedish history. Eleven people have now been convicted of, among other things, participation in particularly serious drug crimes. The drug case is linked to Ismail Abdo's network Rumba.


1.3 tons of cocaine were seized in a container in the port of Norvik in Nynäshamn last spring. Eleven people have now been sentenced after what is the largest cocaine seizure in Sweden to date.
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In the case concerning the largest amount of cocaine ever seized in Sweden, 11 defendants have been sentenced to prison for various crimes. The court announced that 11 of the 17 people tried in connection with the seizure of 1.3 tonnes of cocaine in Norvik Port, south of the capital Stockholm, in April 2024, were found guilty. In the case heard at the Södertörn District Court, a 25-year-old defendant was sentenced to both drug offences and murde…
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