German Police Bust International Cocaine Smuggling Gang

German Police Bust International Cocaine Smuggling Gang
A German police officer in a file photo. Tobias Schwarz/AFP via Getty Images
Reuters
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BERLIN—German police said on Tuesday that 14 people suspected of smuggling several tonnes of cocaine from South America to Germany were arrested and their decade-old trafficking route dismantled as part of an international investigation.

Twenty-eight suspects are suspected of links to nine shipments totalling nearly five tonnes of cocaine, Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and the Berlin public prosecutor’s office said in a joint statement.