Police dismantles largest drug lab in Europe in Chimay
Investigators of the Federal Judicial Police (FGP) of Asse, 14 people were arrested who were part of an international drug ring. The organization, which had branches in Belgium, Poland and Turkey, would have been dealing with the large-scale production and sale of MDMA or ecstasy. The ecstasy lab in Chimay is the largest ever dismantled in Europe.
At 30 raids in Belgium, Poland and the Netherlands were not only arrested suspects but also two labs and two warehouses and discovered a small tonnes of finished MDMA seized. Reports that the federal prosecutor, that is in charge of the investigation.
Contra Strategies
According to the federal prosecutor formed the various suspects of Belgian, Polish and Turkish nationality, a well-structured criminal organization that was active for several years and is heavily involved with the production of MDMA. In addition, they kept the different parts of the production process that was completely separate from any police raid not lost. They hid their laboratories and warehouses also behind false walls and made use of counter-strategies to thwart. Observations or other police techniques Firearms were also not strange to them.
For months research
The FGP of Asse conducted months of research into the organization, in cooperation with Europol and various federal and local police. That investigation led to Thursday 21 raids in Belgium, in the region of Antwerp, Brussels, Charleroi, Hasselt, Leuven, Nivelles, Bergen and Turnhout. Carried out with the support of the special intervention units of the federal police, fire, and laboratory intervention of the federal police and Europol. Additionally found in Poland eight raids and place in the Netherlands.
14 arrests
On that searches the police could pick 14 people, of whom 11 are brought before the investigating magistrate in Brussels De Coster. Who should decide on their arrest. The investigators also discovered two laboratories and two warehouses and found nearly 1,000 pounds of MDMA. 25 kilos of MDMA can be an average of 1.5 million ecstasy pills made. In addition to the finished product, the police also 18.5 tons safrololie take, a product used in the manufacture of MDMA, as well as a dozen cars.
