During the searches, the French gendarmes seized 535 kg of grass and 57 kg of cannabis, estimated to be worth five million euros on resale.
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Four people were indicted on Wednesday and Thursday for “drug trafficking”, “carrying out covert work”, “general laundering” and “drug trafficking laundering” on suspicion of being part of a network international drug trafficking, hidden behind a shop selling legal CBD, said the prosecution of Grenoble Friday, November 19 in a press release.
The case began a year earlier, when customs intercepted a parcel from Rome containing 3.7 kg of herb and to be delivered to the boss of a legal CBD sales sign installed in Varces-Allières-et. -Risset, in Isère, acting as “screen to significant international drug trafficking”, explains the prosecution.
“It is under the legal guise of a digital company, with an associated website, that traffickers manage to transmit more than 2,000 parcels per month to their customers, both in France and abroad. organization allows the company to record nearly 300,000 euros in monthly revenue “, he relates. Three companies in Grenoble, Varces-Allières-et-Risset and Turin in Italy package and send the goods. “The financial package put in place makes it possible to defraud the administrations and launder large sums of money.”
Grenoble prosecutor Eric Vaillant indicates that nine people were arrested last Monday in Isère and in the Loire and placed in police custody. During the searches, the French gendarmes seized 535 kg of herb and 57 kg of cannabis, with an estimated value of five million euros for resale. In addition, 245,000 euros were seized from an Italian bank account.
Of these nine individuals, three men and a woman aged 22 to 29 were therefore presented to an investigating judge who indicted them and placed them under judicial supervision. The Grenoble prosecutor’s office wants the boss of the CBD brand to be remanded in custody, so he will appeal the judicial review decided by the judge.