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The man, who was indicted Tuesday in Stockholm District Court, is suspected of being part of extensive organized criminal activity that smuggled large quantities of drugs from the Netherlands to Scandinavia, among other places.
The now defendant was handed over from the Netherlands to Sweden via a European arrest warrant in February 2020.
The prosecution has close ties to the so-called Sigma case, which last summer resulted in many years in prison for just over a dozen defendants in the Gothenburg District Court. The case is currently being decided in the Court of Appeal. Project Sigma is the name of a judicial cooperation that has previously led to several judgments in the Netherlands, Austria and Denmark.
– It was through an international collaboration with several countries in Europe, including the Netherlands Police Authority, that Swedish Customs addressed the matter. The case is the largest ever investigated by Swedish Customs. So far, 14 people have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms by the Gothenburg district court and the case is pending in the Western Swedish Court of Appeal, says chamber prosecutor Anna Svedin of the National Crime Unit International and Organized in a press release.
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