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German police bust international cocaine smuggling gang

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30-11-2021 | 10:21

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German police said on Tuesday that 14 people suspected of smuggling several tons of cocaine from South America to Germany were arrested and their decade-old trafficking route dismantled as part of an international investigation.

Twenty-eight suspects are suspected of links to nine shipments totaling nearly five tons of cocaine, Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Berlin public prosecutor's office said in a joint statement.

"With the arrest warrants and searches today, we have broken the supply chain," Chief Prosecutor Georg Bauer said.

More than 40 locations were searched in Germany and abroad as part of the operation, and police seized property valued at over 14 million euros ($15.9 million) from eight people.

In addition to law enforcement in Berlin and Dortmund, investigators in Latvia and Spain were also involved, police said.

In February, German and Belgian customs authorities netted a record haul of over 23 tons of cocaine in two raids.

Cocaine seizures in the European Union reached record levels at 213 tons in 2019, according to latest data from the United Nations' and EU's drugs agencies.

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