Overview
- Customs inspectors found the narcotics during an X-ray screening of a Singapore-origin container on December 5.
- The drugs were concealed in printing-industry paper rolls and divided into 400 packets with an estimated street value of about €32 million.
- Investigators carried out searches on January 21 at sites in Bremen, Bremerhaven and Osterholz-Scharmbeck, seizing electronic evidence now under analysis.
- The probe is being conducted on behalf of the Bremen public prosecutor, and officials have not announced arrests or charges.
- Cologne customs crime chief Tino Igelmann called the case a significant blow to organized crime, with authorities noting it ranks among the largest recent heroin seizures in Germany compared with 144 kilograms seized nationwide in 2024.