Thursday, March 31, 2016

Smuggled drugs in aircraft – major crackdown on Landskrona airport – Sydsvenskan

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– It’s very unusual. I do not think we have seen it before in the airfield’s history that there has been something similar, he said.

Photo: Britt-Mari Olsson

Tommie Rasmusson says to it’s a pretty strange way to smuggle narcotics because all traffic from abroad, followed by the Swedish air traffic, who knows where it is going and who is a pilot.

– it’s not the easiest way to take in inappropriate things in.

Three people were in the plane or at the airport was seized by police. Two of them are based in the Stockholm area, the third in Småland.

– There are three people who are now under arrest on suspicion of smuggling of narcotics and aggravated narktotikabrott, said prosecutor Stephen Gradler the International Public Prosecution Office in Malmö.

He now leads the investigation, noting that it is a very unusual case.

– I have been involved with drug investigations since the 90s and I have not encountered anything like it, he says.

on the site there a sealed-off car, a Renault, belonging to a car rental company in Solna. In it sat the supposed recipient of the drugs.

On the site there is a sealed-off car, a Renault, belonging to a car rental company in Solna. In it sat the supposed recipient of the drugs.

Photo: Britt-Mari Olsson

The suspect smuggled the aircraft does not belong to the local flying club, but a flying club in Småland , according to the type.

Data on aircraft traffic shows that flew to the Netherlands early Wednesday morning. A journey of three and a half hours. After lunch, the plane flew back to Sweden.

Image of Cessnans flight route on Wednesday. Source: flightradar24.com.

The Chairman of the Småland flying club that owns the aircraft has received only scant information about the raid in Landskrona.

– What I know is that our plane did not land here at home yesterday, says the president.

Planet has not stolen.

– It has been booked. But if it is the person who booked and then used the plane we do not know.

– The plane is usually used for training and general aviation. It is a common club plan.

On Friday afternoon expected the prosecutor to decide whether to ask the three arrested men arrested.

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