BUDAPEST: An international drug ring of 20 smugglers was sentenced in Espoo District Court in Finland on Monday in what was one of the Nordic countries biggest ever drug busts.
The gang members hailed from eight countries Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Iraq and Somalia – and received varying lengths of sentences totalling 94 years behind bars, with the leaders being handed 10-year jail terms.
Prosecutor Erkki Huhtala claimed the majority of defendants should have received longer prison sentences, after having urged the court to give a combined total of 200 years. He now intends to appeal the ruling.