Tag: Smuggling
A large drug organization uncovered in Åland, with a street value of 120,000 euros
The cooperation between Customs and the Åland Police Department began in 2022 to investigate the drug crime situation in Åland. During the cooperation, the customs authorities stopped a person arriving from Sweden to Åland in the port of Eckerö, where they confiscated approximately 2.9 kilograms of hashish found in the vehicle. An importer living in […]
Drug smuggling, Russian sanctions keep Customs busy
Violation of sanctions against Russia helped bring regulatory violations to the top last year, says Finnish Customs.
Finnish customs and police uncover a marijuana smuggling operation from abroad
The investigation, which began in the late summer of 2022, led to the seizure of almost 40 kilograms of marijuana and approximately 95,000 euros in cash. The cash is believed to be partly criminal proceeds from marijuana already in circulation and partly to pay for a new import batch. The organization is suspected of having […]
Publisher behind Xi biography released from China prison
A Hong Kong-based publisher arrested while preparing to release an unauthorized biography of Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been released after serving a 10-year sentence in a prison in southern China. The respected San Francisco-based rights monitoring group Dui Hua reported Thursday that Yao Wentian, 83, was released on February 26 and returned to his […]
Smuggling Sweden – Operation Skorpionen | part 6/6
In 2015, Slovakia changed its legislation on the sale of deactivated weapons after it emerged that they were used in terrorist acts. By then, tens of thousands of Kalashnikovs, pistols and Scorpions have already been sold and are in operation in Europe. The networks sell weapons to both sides in the conflict With Operation Skorpion, […]
Smuggelsverige – The police murder in Biskopsgården | part 5/6
June 30, 2021. 112 receives several alarm calls about a shooting in Biskopsgården in Gothenburg. Two police officers are in the area and drive towards Vårväderstorget on a moped. One of them is Andreas Danman. Arriving at the scene, he is shot to death. Witnesses describe the perpetrator as young, wearing a black hoodie and […]
The automatic weapon used in the Swedish gang war
The freelance journalist Karwan Faraj tells how weapons from the Balkans end up in the hands of gang criminals in Biskopsgården in Gothenburg. Together with Martin Jönsson, he has made the series Smuggelsverige in P1 Dokumentär. The news podcast Today’s Eco brings you a story every weekday morning. With host Robin Olin and Sveriges Radio’s […]
Smuggling Sweden – Marble slabs from Morocco | part 4/6
In November 2020, customs in the Port of Gothenburg will receive an inspection mission. They are to investigate a shipment from Casablanca. Three containers of marble slabs are passed through and finally the customs find vacuum-packed hash in what looks like marble slabs. In total, it is 1.2 tonnes and it will be the largest […]
Smuggelsverige – Drug wholesaler in Marbella | part 3/6
From Marbella in Spain, Gothenburg citizen Micke runs a drug network. Tons of drugs arrive in Spain via freighters from South America and in fast speedboats from Morocco. With the help of a truck driver who has an animal transport company, the drugs are taken to Sweden. Customs believe that upwards of 150 tons of […]
Smuggling Sweden – Arms smuggler from the Balkans | part 2/6
After the civil war in Yugoslavia in the 90s, no authority has a handle on how many weapons were distributed to the population, and instead of being handed in, they are smuggled to countries like Sweden. Marko has been convicted of several crimes but never for all the weapons he smuggled to Sweden from the […]
Smuggling Sweden – The weapon that killed our son | part 1/6
For a year, we have followed the weapons and narcotics routes into Sweden, to understand how serious international crime leads to shootings and murders on Swedish streets. In this series you meet those who rarely speak but who have supplied the gangs with drugs and weapons – the smugglers. The gang war in Biskopsgården In […]
Finland suspends issuing visas to Thai berry pickers due to human smuggling
The embassy was told to stop issuing visas in November 2022. – The Ministry of Economic Affairs has prepared a proposal to amend the seasonal worker regulation so that the picking of natural products requires the conclusion of an employment contract. press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. – The public consultation of the […]
A high-ranking ministry official was added as a suspect in the Thai berry picker smuggling case
The police suspect a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Economy and Labor of receiving a bribe and abuse of office, the ministry confirmed to Yle.
Italy accused of cocaine smuggling
The district attorney accused the over 60-year-old Italian of a large-scale drug offense. The man attempted to smuggle 993.78 grams of cocaine into Iceland for sale and distribution domestically for his own profit. The accused was carrying drugs hidden in cans in a suitcase he had with him as a passenger on a flight from […]
The forgotten heroin
In the name of the law, for several weeks, police officers, the Customs Service and heroinists have met to gain an insight into how heroin sales look today, where the heroin comes from, and what is being done to stop the increase. According to the police in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, heroin sales have increased […]
EU Commissioner: Ukraine’s arms trade fuels violence in criminal networks in the European Union
Such smuggling “fuels violence in criminal networks in the European Union”, Johansson said, adding that the center will be a “one-stop shop” that will allow the EU’s border agency Frontex to support local border agencies and enable Europol. to share information. An EU official highlighted the differences in the arms trade process: “It’s hard to […]
Brussels comments on Ukraine’s allegations of arms smuggling
The EU has no reason to doubt that Kyiv will keep weapons away from the black market, said a senior official A senior spokesman for EU foreign affairs seemed to allay Member States’ fears that weapons delivered to Ukraine found their way into the black market. In an interview published on Thursday by a Ukrainian […]
West wants to track down weapons sent to Ukraine FT
EU and NATO members? Have no idea? where the arms go after they arrive, an official told the newspaper Concerns are growing among NATO and EU members over Ukraine’s handling of Western weapons, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Western countries are now trying to set up a special tracking mechanism to try to prevent […]
NATO, the EU wants to track weapons sent to Ukraine’s media
Western nations? Go blank? on where the weapons are at the moment they enter Ukraine, an official told the Financial Times Concerns are growing among NATO and EU members over how Ukraine handles the weapons provided by the West, Financial Times reported on Tuesday. Western countries are now trying to set up a special tracking […]
The feed material at COVID risk is imported to Finland
In 2021, a Finnish fur feed mixture imported fish waste from Denmark for use as a feed raw material. In Denmark, fish waste was stored in a farm that also had dead minks that had been killed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Danish party should have applied to the Finnish Food Safety Authority for […]
Customs suspects the company of smuggling 1.3 million kilos of contaminated feed to Finland
The authorities in Finland suspect that about 1.3 million kilos of contaminated feed raw materials have been illegally imported from Denmark. Customs announced on Tuesday that it would close the investigation into an exceptional case. According to the agency, a Finnish feed producer operating in Ostrobothnia is suspected of having imported contaminated material, fish waste. […]
NBI suspects the gang of smuggling 200 kilos of cocaine to Finland
The Central Criminal Police (NBI) has completed a preliminary investigation into the smuggling of more than 200 kilograms of cocaine into the country. According to NBI, the drugs arrived in the port of Helsinki in Vuosaari in March in a cargo container loaded with red wine bottles. Police said they managed to seize 37 pounds […]
Crime Round-Up: Alleged undercover agents’ case against intelligence services will be heard in the High Court
A somewhat unprecedented case is to be heard in the High Court, after the Copenhagen City Court yesterday decided to pass on the terrorist convict Ahmed Samsam’s lawsuit against the Danish intelligence services PET and FE. “The court further finds that the case has a significant societal scope, as the defendants have stated that the […]
A Finnish criminal organization mailed drugs worth 700,000 euros
The Eastern Uusimaa Police Department said on Saturday it had completed a preliminary investigation into the smuggling of marijuana by a gang named Mantaqa. Police suspect a group of Finns of obtaining marijuana from Albania and mailing it to Finland via Spain. Mikko MinkkinenThe senior inspector of the Eastern Uusimaa Police Department said that in […]
Finnish customs seized a record amount of snuff
New Customs statistics show a booming black market for snus and a huge increase in smuggling. In 2011, customs seized more than 30 kilos of snus, last year more than 9,000 kilos. The smuggling of snus has become more professional over the years. It is an oral tobacco product that is usually placed under the […]
Finnish customs seize a record amount of snuff and drugs
In 2021, the number of customs offenses was at its lowest in eight years. This is mainly due to the COVID-19 situation, which caused a decline in passenger travel, but there is also a wider change behind it. – The social impact of the fight against customs crime increased last year, although the total number […]
Greenhouse entrepreneurs want the authorities to help detect human trafficking
Farmers say they want more recruitment help from the authorities over a case involving dozens of Vietnamese workers suspected of being blackmailed in a small town in western Finland. There were media reports last month that Vietnamese workers were suspected of being blackmailed and possibly trafficked in Närpiie. Hufvudstadsbladet said that the Vietnamese broker is […]
Customs reveals large consignments of amphetamines and ecstasy – a total of € 195,000 worth of drugs on the street
Customs has uncovered the smuggling and distribution of amphetamine and MDMA. Drugs have been received by mail from abroad and distributed throughout Finland. Customs seized the operation in August 2021, when it seized about three kilos of amphetamine and half a kilo of MDMA from a mail item arriving from abroad at Helsinki-Vantaa. MDMA is […]
The Supreme Court sentenced the berry boss for human trafficking to prison
The Supreme Court has sentenced the director of a berry picking company in Central Finland to one year and ten months in prison on 26 counts of human trafficking. The victims of the incident were all from Thailand and had to work 15 hours a day with little or no pay, as their income went […]
11 million kronor in damages for 7 months in detention
A Pole living in Iceland, who has been in custody for seven months, was today acquitted of the charge of participating in a large-scale drug smuggling operation. The District Court in Reykjavík ordered a compensation of almost four million kronor, but the National Court increased the amount to 11 million kronor. The man was arrested […]
Locked-in princesses – the scandals in the Middle East royal house
Princess Latifa in Dubai made a dramatic escape attempt on a jet ski but was forcibly returned to the country. She started smuggling out secret videos about her being held captive by her family. Some time later, Princess Haya, who was married to Latifa’s father, escaped. At the center of the accusations is Mohammed bin […]
The smuggling of 30 kilograms of marijuana was prevented
Customs and police officers seized a total of thirty kilograms of marijuana at Keflavík Airport this month. The substance was found in two bags one week apart. One baggage came from Germany and the other from Canada. The information about this was provided by the portal vísir.is. According to the portal, these were the largest […]
