JERUSALEM: ISRAELI POLICE REVEAL DETAILS ON AN INTERNATIONAL SWOOP TO SMASH A MAJOR DRUGS RING

Record ID: 399052

  • Title: JERUSALEM: ISRAELI POLICE REVEAL DETAILS ON AN INTERNATIONAL SWOOP TO SMASH A MAJOR DRUGS RING
  • Date: 12th October 1999
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (OCTOBER 12, 1999) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 1. WS EXTERIOR OF POLICE HEADQUARTERS 0.05 2. MV OFFICERS ROUND TABLE 0.08 3. CU MAP SHOWING DRUG OPERATION 0.16 4. SV (SOUNBITE) (English) HEAD OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS AT ISRAELI POLICE YOSSI ALMOG SAYING: "We are speaking about a project, working together with Netherlands police, in whi
  • Embargoed: 27th October 1999 13:00
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  • Location: JERUSALEM
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  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVAC1YUTVMYO3LVEZ11F6A8OCIGY
  • Story Text: Israeli police have revealed details of an
    international swoop to smash a drugs ring operating in the
    Netherlands, Belgium, Israel, France and the United States.

    Israeli police revealed key details on Tuesday (October
    12) about a major international drugs ring operating in the
    Netherlands, Belgium, France, Israel and the United States.

    They said the syndicate, led by two Israelis living in
    Europe, was one of the world's largest producers of the
    synthetic drug commonly known as ecstasy.

    Updating arrest figures announced by Dutch police on
    Monday after dawn raids on the ring's drug laboratories in the
    Netherlands, Israeli police said at a news conference that 41
    suspects had been detained overseas and another eight in
    Israel, with about one million ectsasy tablets seized.

    Twenty-four Israelis, most of them living overseas, were
    among those arrested.

    Two Israelis, one residing in the Netherlands and the
    other in Belgium, were the masterminds behind the operation,
    and an ultra-Orthodox man recruited young religious Jews to
    smuggle the drugs.

    Israeli police said an Israeli undercover agent had been
    key to busting the ring.

    The agent, who appeared at the Jerusalem news conference
    disguised with a wig and false moustache, managed to buy
    60,000 ecstasy tablets from the main suspect in the
    investigation during 10 months of undercover work in the
    Netherlands.


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