Overview

• Nearly 120 officers from customs and the Munich I prosecutor’s office searched addresses in the Bad Kissingen district, Mannheim, Geesthacht, Hamburg, and Berlin.
• A Hamburg allotment garden parcel used as a warehouse contained more than 15,000 ampoules and over 150,000 tablets with anabolic agents.
• Seven suspected members are under investigation—six men and one woman—with four placed in pretrial detention.
• Authorities describe defined roles in the group, alleging more than 3,000 shipments, overseas procurement, and payment monitoring totaling over €67,000.
• The probe began after an intercepted package bound for Bad Kissingen, and investigators are also examining several alleged customers.