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Authorities Begin Hazardous Chemical Removal After Massive Nauen Drug Lab Raid

Officials expect chemical removal to continue into Friday under strict health protocols.

Overview

  • Investigators provisionally seized about 100 kilograms of finished 3‑CMC and 4‑CMC along with more than €200,000 in cash from a rented warehouse in Nauen.
  • A 50-year-old Ukrainian and a 41-year-old Polish national were detained, with prosecutors seeking pretrial detention on charges of gang-related trafficking in large quantities of narcotics.
  • Zollfahndungsamt Berlin-Brandenburg led the months-long probe under the authority of the Staatsanwaltschaft Frankfurt (Oder) with about 150 officers from federal and state units.
  • Officials described the facility as the largest they have encountered, citing vast stocks of precursors and wastewater that complicate safe transport and examination.
  • Forensic analysis to verify quantities and compositions is underway, and authorities said crystal meth was not identified based on current findings.