HELSINKI: Finnish Customs officials have said that they have stooped an attempt to smuggling in designer drugs to the country from abroad on a daily basis. And along with these it has been estimated that a large number of new synthetic designer drugs imported from abroad in small and large batches.
“The range of designer drugs is currently very wide. It has exploded over a period of a few years,” said head of the airports mail monitoring team, Sami Tammisto.
Officials say the rapid growth in imports of synthetic drugs is fueled by the internet, where the designer drug business takes place for the most part. The substances are often cooked up in a regular laboratory, before being sold in online drug deals across the world.
“In the past there was no internet, so the market for these designer drugs was a lot smaller. At the time there wasn’t this open channel for orders,” explained Customs anti-crime chief Hannu Sinkkonen.
