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It was on July 2 that the special cargo arrived in Sweden via the Öresund Bridge in Malmö.
At the wheel of the truck was a 53-year-old Belgian citizen.
He says during interrogations that he had no idea there were drugs in the shipment. To him, it was just furniture packed in brown boxes.
The police probably would not have cared about the shipment either were it not for the fact that the police in another case had special supervision over a warehouse in Skyttevägen in Vallentuna, outside of Stockholm, in a case where a person already is in custody.
At 3pm on July 3, they received information that new activities were taking place at the current warehouse. At the site, there would be a foreign truck with red text and a smaller white van.
One hundred kilos of hashish
However, when the police arrived, the vehicles were gone. After breaking into one of the stores, it was quickly discovered that there were 100 kilos of hashish in large packages.
At the same time, the truck was a few hundred meters from the site for subsequent unloading. Images from a surveillance camera show the boxes being lowered from the box with the help of a truck.
In the truck that crossed southern Sweden and up towards Vallentuna, there was a total of 102 kilos of amphetamine and 270 kilos of cannabis, all for a street value of approximately SEK 60 million.
One of the policemen says he is fully dressed in civilian shorts. His colleague wears a heavy safety vest and a police emblem on his chest.
At the same time, they would handle several men in the current yard. From a distance, cardboard boxes were seen being loaded onto a car. A box was about to break and the amphetamine bags were about to fall off.
Held the gun
– At the same time, more vehicles entered the courtyard. One of the cars was a Mercedes. I judged that they were people who were there to buy drugs, says one of the scouts.
He saw several of the men nod in recognition of each other. At the same time, he clung tightly to his downward-pointing service weapon.
Much of the loading moment itself was filmed by an on-site surveillance camera.
Images are now included as an important part of the prosecutor’s evidence.
A total of four people were arrested at the scene. The three defendants at the Attunda District Court are a 53-year-old Belgian driver, two Stockholmers, a 27-year-old man and a 50-year-old man.
Denies the crime
– Everyone denies the crime, says chamber prosecutor Henrik Söderman from the National Prosecutor’s Office – National Unit against Organized and International Crime.
Given the great courage, he does not believe that those now accused are the real perpetrators.
– But these are people who are in the food chain with specific tasks, he says.
The Belgian trucker has been charged with extremely serious drug offenses and extremely serious drug smuggling. The 27-year-old man is charged with a felony drug offense and the 50-year-old man with a felony drug-related offense.
The penalty for extremely serious drug offenses is imprisonment for 6 to 10 years.
