Overview
- In Bavaria and Lower Saxony, more than 370 officers executed about 70 searches tied to suspected social-security and tax fraud involving over 30 targets in the renovation trade.
- Five principal suspects were served arrest warrants, with three remanded, one released on bail, and one to appear before a judge on Thursday, according to authorities.
- Courts froze roughly €1.2 million in assets as investigators seized nearly €95,000 in cash and jewelry, found various drugs, recovered an illegal gas pistol, and secured data suspected to contain child sexual abuse material.
- Near Berlin, an eight-day operation cleared a large synthetic-drug facility in Nauen, removing 12 containers of chemicals and waste after the discovery of about 400 kilograms of crystalline narcotics; two suspects are in pretrial detention.
- In Bad Schmiedeberg, investigators uncovered an indoor cannabis plantation of nearly 1,500 plants in a former inn and adjoining vaulted tunnel, and two Albanian men were arrested and ordered into custody.