The 22 -year suspected Finnish police of major drug smuggling operations

The value of amphetamines imported alone was about seven million euros, according to the police.

Police photo of two plastic -wrapped blocks of a white substance. — Police suspect a 22 -year -old man orchestrates the import of over 300 kg of amphetamine, 5 kg of MDMA, over 30,000 ecstasy tablets, 5 kg of cocaine, 5 kg of hats and 300,000 benzodiazepine (Ksalol). Image: Polisi

The police in the southwest of Finland suspect a 22-year-old man with a number of serious drug offenses, characterizing him as a Finnish leader of an international drug trafficking network.

According to the police, the suspect did not have significant criminal records. Initially it was detained by the police in September and remains in preventive custody.

Is suspected of 11 aggravated drug offenses. According to the detective inspector Jussi GustafssonThe suspect lives in east Uusimaa.

Police suspect that the man orchestrates the import in Finland over 300 kg of amphetamine, 5 kg of MDMA, over 30,000 ecstasy tablets, 5 kg of cocaine, 5 kg of hats and 300,000 tablets of benzodiazepine (ksalol).

According to the main investigator Gustafsson, the value of the amphetamines on which the network would have imported -it was the equivalent of about 1.2 million doses, bearing a street value of about 7.4 million euros.

The preliminary investigation, which ends soon, included over 40 suspects and involved the cooperation of several police departments in Finland.

The deadline to file charges in question is at the end of this month.

The 22 -year -old is also suspected of asking an individual to burn the club of a motorcycle club in western Uusimaa in May passed and then again in September. He is also suspected of a serious violent crime by another authority to apply the law.

The police began to discover the activities of the criminal network in 2023 after interrupting the drug operation of a street band, confiscating an amount of ecstasy tablets.

Since then, the South and South Police -Finland’s Vest has discovered eight drug smuggling operations in Sweden in Finland. The members of these operations received long terms of imprisonment last summer, the police press said on Thursday.