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Following last week’s high profile arrest of an Italian mobster working as a pizza chef in France, TFN looks at how Polish cops have been cracking down on the Italian mafia hiding out in Poland.
Polish and Czech police officers have broken up an international gang smuggling drugs within the EU, the Central Police Investigation Bureau (CBSP) reported on Tuesday.
In a coordinated swoop in cities across Poland, over 500 officers stormed the Cocomo chain of clubs seizing documents, phones and computers. They also confiscated items worth 1.2 million PLN in the form of cash, cars luxury watches and jewellery.
Police have arrested 14 members of a gang of thieves who preyed on passengers travelling on long-distance trains, the Central Police Investigation Bureau (CBSP) said on Monday.
A special task force set up to investigate the gang said they may have smuggled as much as 1.2 tonnes of marijuana worth almost PLN 24 million (EUR 5.3 million) from Spain into Poland as well as Italy, Belgium, Germany and the UK.
Officers from the Central Investigation Bureau seized over 300 weapons, including grenades, detonators and 3,000 rounds of ammo in a series of raids involving over 100 police.
A Dutch court has agreed to hand over to Poland a gang boss laundering money for Colombian drug cartels.
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