Overview
- Searches targeted at least 14 private locations in South Thuringia and Leipzig, with three men detained on arrest warrants obtained by the Gera public prosecutor.
- The detainees, aged 49, 43 and 37, are suspected members of Bandidos MC or a supporting club.
- Investigators say the wider case now involves 21 suspects aged 25 to 63 over alleged aggravated extortion, methamphetamine trafficking, money laundering and property offenses.
- About 300 officers from the state criminal police, the special operations unit and the riot police executed the raids and secured potential evidence.
- Authorities moved to seize assets, focusing on vehicles and other valuables, in an operation linked to August searches that confiscated ten motorcycles and drugs in Thuringia, Saxony and Bavaria.