Published June 8, 2021 at 4:37 pm
Domestic. At the end of May, the Medical Products Agency, the Swedish Customs and the police carried out a joint operation against illegal drugs sent to Sweden. Approximately 15,000 tablets were seized – mainly drug-classified drugs, doping substances, potency-enhancing drugs and antimalarial drugs.
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The operation was coordinated globally by Interpol, and about 90 countries around the world participated in the operation.
One of the goals of the operation is to get an idea of what the illegal trade looks like . Another goal is to prevent illegal drugs from reaching buyers.
Interpol's preliminary compilation of Operation Pangea shows that global trade has increased, both on websites and on social media, and trade included drugs and products against covid. 19.
– This year we have seen signs that more elderly people are buying medicines online than before. The reason may be the rapid digitalisation that has taken place in this group during the pandemic, says Eva-Lena Bergens, investigator at the Medical Products Agency, in a statement. doping substances and antibiotics. The Swedish Customs also found several kilos of unidentified powder that had been sent for laboratory analysis.
– We are very satisfied with the result of the control operation. The Swedish Customs made about 150 seizures where the majority of these seizures contained smaller amounts of drug-classified tablets as well as doping and potency agents, says Rune Eriksson, responsible for Operation Pangea at the Swedish Customs.
The authorities will carry out further investigations of the seizures in the form of laboratory analyzes and, where deemed justified, also submit cases to the judiciary. The police authority has also informed internet providers, web hosts and domain owners about customers who are engaged in the sale of illegal drugs.