Arrested in Morocco: Associated with international narkoring

The two danes, who was arrested in Tangiers in Morocco on Saturday, suspected to be a part of a large, international narkoring. It writes the east Jutland Pol

Ann McDonald
Ann McDonald
17 February 2020 Monday 15:00
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Arrested in Morocco: Associated with international narkoring

The two danes, who was arrested in Tangiers in Morocco on Saturday, suspected to be a part of a large, international narkoring.

It writes the east Jutland Police in a press release.

- It is our view that the two men were the last, we were missing of the people that we suspect of having ties to narkoringen, says vicepolitiinspektør by the Special Investigation into the West (SEV) Morten Vegger to Ekstra Bladet.

There are two men from Horsens, denmark on 25 and 36 years old. Since 2018, men have been internationally wanted in connection with an extensive case of smuggling, which has been investigated by SEV.

In a coordinated european deployment of police beat SEV 7. march 2018, along with several other countries against a large, international narkoring, which draws the threads of Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark.

Narkoringen suspected to have smuggled several tons of marijuana, including to Denmark.

the Action led then, to a total of 20 people were arrested. 15 people in Horsens and a person in Himmerland, while three persons were arrested in Sweden and one in Holland.

17 of those arrested were subsequently remanded in custody.

The two Danish men of 25 and 36 years, was remanded in custody in absentia and has been wanted ever since. After the arrest in Morocco they will be the subject extradited to Denmark for prosecution.

you Know, when the two will be extradited to Denmark?

I can't say anything about it, says vicepolitiinspektør Morten Vegger.

During the event in 2018 was seized around 900 kilos of hashish.

With the investigation, the police have in total seized nearly 1.7 tons of marijuana and 11 pounds of cocaine. In addition, it has been found large amounts of money, although the police do not want to disclose the amount involved.

It was in connection with the action at that time nor indicated where in Europe hashen has been stored, or where you seized it.

Vicepolitiinspektør Morten Vegger want today still not to answer this question.

Police told the associated with the big action in 2018, that there had been made a long series of searches and investigations in other countries. The actions had led the police on the trail of the other narkosager with other offenders.

In these cases there was total seized a further 500 kilos of hash, 42 liters of amphetamine oil, which is equivalent to approximately 60 kilos of amphetamines and 20 kilos of cocaine, two kilos of heroin and 88 kilos of amphetamine.

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Updated: 17.02.2020 15:00