2025-11-01 20:00
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2025-11-01 20:00
On Tuesday, a court in Fredrikstad sentenced four men to prison for smuggling 230 kilograms of hashish. The drugs were supposed to cross the border hidden in a truck registered in Poland in the fall of 2024. According to the police, this was the largest smuggling attempt into Norway last year.
The men tried to transport drugs in a car with a refrigerated trailer belonging to a transport company registered in Poland. Customs officers were to follow a truck coming from Spain from the Svinesund crossing on the border with Sweden. The police allowed smugglers to enter the country. Two days after crossing the border, truck drivers and smuggling organizers were detained while they were reloading hashish into other cars.
The secured goods were supposed to be worth PLN 900,000. portions with a market value of at least CZK 23 million (nearly PLN 8.5 million). The customs service found that both the Polish truck and the trailer had numerous compartments specially prepared for transporting drugs across the border.
The court imposed a sentence of 7 years and 7 months in prison against the 37-year-old owner of the transport company that owned the vehicle. The truck driver will spend 6 years and 8 months behind bars, and the two assistants – 3 years and 2 months and 2 years and 9 months.
Oeystein Boermer, director of the Norwegian customs administration, told PAP that such large interceptions are rare.
– They require significant resources and good organization. The attempt for which the four were sentenced on Tuesday was a wide and carefully planned operation,” the head of Norwegian customs officials told PAP.
From Oslo Mieszko Czarnecki (PAP)
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