Prague, Nov 23 (CTK) – The Czech police yesterday detained four members of an international gang of drug producers, smugglers and dealers, which they broke up together with the Austrian and German police, the national anti-drug squad spokeswoman Barbora Kudlackova has told CTK.
She said the detectives uncovered the whole gang of more than 50 people in the past nine months, seizing over 100 kilograms of illegal drugs, mainly pervitin (methamphetamine), worth 216 million crowns.
For the first time in history did the three countries’ police establish a joint team of 30 investigators.
The operation ended with coordinated police raids in the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria yesterday.
“They cracked down on drug producers, organisers, couriers and dealers,” Kudlackova said.
The four persons detained in the Czech Republic face from eight to 12 years in prison for drug production, she said.
The police launched the investigation based on the German information about pervitin exports from the Czech Republic.
The enquiry resulted in uncovering a Bosnian-Albanian gang that organised pervitin production in north Bohemia, hired couriers and secured the drug export and sales in Germany and Austria.
Apart from more than 100 kilograms of pervitin, the police seized three kilograms of marijuana and three kilograms of cocaine, and uncovered two pervitin production labs.
($1=25.474 crowns)
