Police seize 1,000 tonnes of chemicals in 'largest-ever' drugs bust, Europol says
Euronews.com • • general
Key Points:
- European police dismantled 24 industrial-scale labs and seized around 1,000 tonnes of chemicals used to produce synthetic drugs like MDMA, amphetamine, and meth in the largest operation of its kind.
- The year-long investigation involved authorities from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain, resulting in over 85 arrests, including two Polish suspected ringleaders.
- The criminal network imported legal chemicals from China and India, repackaged and mislabelled them, then distributed them across the EU to drug manufacturing labs.
- Europol emphasized the operation as a "supply-chain strategy" aimed at cutting off the synthetic drug production at its source, highlighting the associated issues of violence, corruption
