Joint operation targets hashish network
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POLICE have seized more than 1,000kg of hashish and arrested 23 people in a joint operation in Spain, Poland, Denmark and France targeting a drug-smuggling gang, Polish and Spanish police said yesterday.
The gang leaders were arrested in raids co-ordinated by the European Union’s law enforcement agency Europol in the southern Spanish towns of Marbella, Estepona and Lebrija, police said. Among those arrested were 12 Poles, seven Spaniards and two Ukrainians.
“At the start we thought the gang operated only in Spain, but later it turned out they were active across Europe with the drugs being delivered to Scandinavia and Britain among others,” said Jaroslaw Szymczyk, head of the Polish police.
“This great success would not have been possible without the cooperation between the Europol, Polish and Spanish police forces,” said head of Operations for Serious and Organized Crimes in Europol, Michael Rausenbach.
The suspected leader of the group — aged 47 and nicknamed “Bandit” — had served a prison sentence in Poland for belonging in the 1990s to a Polish crime group called Pruszkow, police said.
Pruszkow was once one of the most notorious gangs in Poland after its 1989 transition from communism.
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