It Started with Bananas. Czechs Helped Uncover a Large Network of Cocaine Traffickers
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Czech customs officers from Ústí nad Labem have helped uncover a vast network of traffickers and importers of large shipments of cocaine, in the order of tons, from Latin America to Europe. Their discovery of huge and suspicious banana shipments led to an international investigation and a major arrest raid on Tuesday in five European countries, led by Switzerland. Police arrested 44 people, but no one in the Czech Republic.
North Bohemian customs officers were at the forefront of uncovering a large-scale cocaine smuggling operation into Europe. The case culminated this Tuesday with house searches and the arrest of dozens of people in Switzerland, Germany and other countries. This was told to journalists today in The Hague, Netherlands, by the Czech National Member of Eurojust, Lukáš Starý. The cocaine shipments amounted to tons. The EU Agency for Judicial Cooperati…
Suspicious shipments of bananas to the Czech Republic have led customs officers in Ústí nad Labem to the trail of a large network of cocaine smugglers. A five-year investigation culminated this week in a large-scale raid in five European countries. Police conducted more than a hundred searches, arrested dozens of suspects and seized millions of euros. According to the European Union's Eurojust agency, the organized group was smuggling tons of co…
North Bohemian customs officers were at the forefront of uncovering a large-scale cocaine smuggling operation into Europe. The case culminated this Tuesday with house searches and the arrest of dozens of people in Switzerland, Germany and other countries. This was told to journalists on Thursday in The Hague, the Netherlands, by Czech National Member for Eurojust Lukáš Starý. The cocaine shipments involved tons of cocaine.
The Hague/Prague - North Bohemian customs officers were at the forefront of uncovering a large-scale cocaine smuggling operation into Europe. The case culminated this Tuesday with house searches and the arrest of dozens of people in Switzerland, Germany and other countries. This was told to journalists today in The Hague, the Netherlands, by the Czech National Member of Eurojust, Lukáš Starý. The cocaine shipments amounted to tons. The EU Agency…
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