The man suspected of being at the head of this network was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He used false identities and had “an expensive lifestyle”.
The Sables d’Olonnes Criminal Court sentenced a man, then suspected of being the head of drug trafficking, to 10 years in prison on Wednesday June 29 for drug trafficking between the Netherlands and Vendée. , as well as a fine of 400,000 euros, announced the gendarmerie. The second defendant was sentenced to 6 months’ imprisonment with probation.
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The searches carried out during the investigation resulted in the seizure of a large quantity of drugs worth more than one million euros: 15 kilos of ketamine, more than 30,000 sachets of ecstasy, 2 kilos of amphetamines or even 1 liter of GHB, according to a press release. Weapons – including 1 assault rifle, 1 submachine gun, 1 automatic pistol, 1 Winchester brand rifle and their ammunition -, vehicles worth 120,000 euros and false identity documents were also seized. These searches follow the interception on Saturday of a vehicle from the Netherlands.
Two people had been arrested: a man suspected of being the leader of this network, who confessed in police custody “to be at the head of a traffic feeding the middle of the free partiesand an accomplice.
This international network was discovered in May by investigators from the Sables d’Olonnes research brigade, according to the press release from the national gendarmerie. The man suspected of being at the head of this traffic used false identities and had “of an expensive lifestyle» with expenses amounting «to several hundreds of thousands of euros, particularly in casinos“, according to the same source.