Overview
- Europol coordinated simultaneous actions this week with Eurojust support, involving investigators in Sweden, Spain, Germany and Australia, with Thai authorities participating.
- Dozens of properties were searched and computers and phones were seized as part of the multinational operation.
- Europol said the group used a web of companies to launder profits from drug trafficking that stretched from Europe through Asia to Australia.
- German authorities were reported to have intercepted 1.2 tonnes of synthetic drugs bound for Australia, a seizure linked in reporting to two arrests there.
- Reporting also links network members in Thailand to online drug sales targeting Scandinavian markets, while Europol noted most suspects had not previously been on police radar.