– Customs officials became aware of a car that they chose to check. In the found approximately 300 kg drugs of various kinds, says Ane Evangelista, police lawyer at the Department of Organized Crime in Oslo, told Dagbladet.
It all started when customs officers at Kongsvinger viewed video images from the border that it first came one Swedish car over at Øiermoen Finnskogen at approx. 11 Saturday 28 November.
– Straight afterwards came one car hire. They reasoned that it could be anything, and went out to meet them, says Kjersti Braathen, acting section chief at Kongsvinger customs station, told Dagbladet.
Two cars stopped
the officer made contact with the two rental cars, and stopped them finally on Masterud, just outside Kongsvinger.
– Then there appeared a Swedish van, and a Norwegian van. We got in touch with them, and soon realized that they had a thin story, says Braathen.
When customs agents checked one passenger car, they discovered quickly that there was marijuana there.
– Thus, the Swedes and a Norwegian arrested, says Braathen.
While customs officers stood there came two further Norwegian cars back before they went in. The officer were joined by registration numbers.
– On the way to the station again hit the one car, and they were arrested, says Braathen.
The largest single seizure in 2015
Count on customs and police station in Kongsvinger showed that in total the car was 40 kg marijuana, 232 kilograms of hashish, 27 kg of amphetamine and 12 kg of MDMA / ecstasy.
– it is the largest single seizure in the customs context in Norway in 2015, says Braathen.
it was NRK that first publicized case.
Later, another three people arrested, two of them in Sweden, one of them in Oslo.
– Seven people have been indicted in the case. Three of them are Norwegian citizens, and is released but the charges are upheld, said police attorney Evangeline.
She said the case is still being investigated, to expose others involved including in the Netherlands and receiving device in Norway . Some of the defendants acknowledge the facts of the case.
– Four of the accused have joined the case to a greater or lesser degree. One of them did not want to explain himself, while two of the recipients is puzzled by the indictment, said Evangelista.
– Excellent job
The lawyer praises customs efforts in the case.
– they have done an excellent job of uncovering an entry by a very significant amount of drugs, and cooperation between customs and police have been good, says police lawyer.
case was initially investigated by police Kongsvinger, but was transferred to the Oslo police’s organized crime division, because the case had international ramifications and because of the fitting size. Oslo police have specialist on investigating such cases.
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