COPENHAGEN: Finnish Customs officials have completed a preliminary investigation into a large-scale amphetamine smuggling operation. The multiple persons charged in the case are from both Poland and Finland.
The case was opened in summer 2015, after Customs seized 6,600 grams of amphetamines found in a Polish-registered car entering the country from Germany at the Vuosaari port. Preliminary investigation revealed that a Polish-Finnish criminal organization with activities in several European countries was behind the illegal activity.
The case later expanded to include drug trafficking charges for activities masterminded by the same organisation.
Officials now believe that the group smuggled about a thousand millilitres of amphetamine oil into Finland in August 2015. The oil was hidden in glass bottles smuggled in by a passenger car through Denmark and Sweden to Finland, and was later used to produce about seven kilos of amphetamines.
Chief Investigator at Finnish Customs Janne Kallio says that the criminal group was active for about a year.
“Their operations ended in late 2016,” he said.
