Criminal suspicions|The police say they tracked down the criminal organization in April, when a large amount of narcotics was smuggled from Sweden to Finland.
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The police say they uncovered a large criminal organization while investigating the smuggling of narcotics from Sweden to Finland.
In total, there are more than 40 people suspected in different parts of Finland.
The police say that the street value of the narcotics seized in Southeast Finland alone is around 1.8 million euros.
In addition to the narcotics, the police have confiscated numerous firearms.
Police says that he uncovered a large criminal organization while investigating large-scale drug smuggling from Sweden to Finland, several serious firearm crimes and an explosive crime.
The police say that they got into the operation of a professionally functioning branch of organized crime through extensive seizures and arrests.
The police announced the matter today, Friday.
The police have more than 40 suspects related to the criminal organization all over Finland.
To the press release according to which the police tracked down the criminal organization in April 2024.
At that time, 20 kilograms of amphetamine, five kilograms of MDMA and 20,000 ecstasy tablets were smuggled from Sweden to Finland via the northern land border.
The case has been investigated by the police departments of Southwest Finland, Southeast Finland, Inner Finland and Helsinki, as well as the Central Crime Police (Krp).
According to the police, the street value of the narcotics seized in Southeast Finland alone was around 1.8 million euros.
The whole thing is connected to the criminal investigation that was ongoing in the fall of 2023, where the police revealed a criminal organization that organized a total of about 130 kilograms of narcotics from Sweden to Finland on several different occasions, the release says.
The District Court of Helsinki issued a verdict in the criminal case in question last June. The members of the criminal organization were sentenced to a total of 90 years in prison.
Assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons confiscated by the Southeastern Finland Police Department.
Police says that he has recently uncovered recipients and brokers of narcotics in Kouvola, Tampere and Helsinki.
In addition to large drug seizures, the police have seized numerous firearms and explosives.
For example, the police confiscated a total of 21 firearms from a storage facility in Kouvola, one of which was a serial firearm.
“In addition to these, approximately 9 kilograms of explosives and 78 kilograms of firearm cartridges were seized from the warehouse, as well as more than 50,000 euros in cash from two different locations, which are suspected to be proceeds of crime from drug dealing”, crime commissioner Lauri Ristola The Southeast Finland Police Department says in a press release.
To the press release according to one of the cells of the criminal organization was located in Helsinki.
The cell received narcotics from the same criminal organization that operated as an importer and broker of narcotics in April.
The police managed to track down the two main suspects after a person was arrested in Helsinki last summer, and almost a kilo of amphetamine was seized from his possession. According to the police, the suspect had been in the apartment moments before the arrest, from where the other suspect was found.
Among other things, thousands of euros in cash, narcotics and a pistol were confiscated from the apartment, says the crime commissioner Janne Ylinenpää In a press release from the Helsinki Police Department.
Overhead according to the report, the two are suspected of being responsible for acquiring, storing and distributing narcotics.
They are suspected of selling almost 50 kilograms of amphetamine and several kilograms of marijuana.
Narcotics were mainly sold to the capital region, but also to Kouvola, Kuopio, Joensuu and Tampere.
The duo, who are the main suspects, are suspected of aggravated firearms offenses in addition to aggravated drug offenses.
“The preliminary investigation revealed that the suspects had sold the submachine gun and assault rifle they had obtained to a person to whom they had also sold large amounts of amphetamine,” Ylinenpää says in the news release.
The criminal activity is suspected to have started in February 2024, when the suspects rented an apartment to receive and process narcotics.
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