Cologne (NRW) – The long Pentecost weekend also encouraged the smugglers to travel again, but customs at Cologne Airport took a close look at the packages…
The investigators’ balance sheet: seven kilos of marijuana, just as much ketamine (an anesthetic that is also abused as an intoxicant), a kilo of hashish and gold jewelery worth 36,000 euros.
Ketamine was also disguised as coffee powder
“The drugs were disguised as coffee powder, among other things, or hidden in sports shoes and between toy figures,” reports Jens Ahland, spokesman for the main customs office in Cologne. “The estimated street value of the seized drugs is more than 341,000 euros.”
For tactical reasons, he says Customs not, via which routes the drug was brought to Germany.
Customs shouldn’t find this gold jewelry – but it did
The ground pepper was quite golden
It’s different with the gold crooks – customs found what they were looking for in seven returnees from Turkey and Morocco. “A woman had her gold jewelry hidden in a bag of ground pepper and a man had hidden a jewelry set in a pair of tennis socks,” Ahland said on Wednesday afternoon.
All of the suspects tried to leave the customs checkpoint with their luggage through the green channel for free goods. However, goods on flights from non-EU countries are only duty-free up to a value of 430 euros. Anything beyond that must be declared to customs.
The smugglers are now threatened with criminal tax proceedings.
2023-05-31 22:46:48
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