Overview
- A judge ordered pretrial detention for a 50-year-old Ukrainian and a 41-year-old Polish suspect on gang-related drug-trafficking charges that carry a minimum five-year sentence.
- Officers seized roughly 100 kilograms of finished 3-CMC and 4-CMC, more than €200,000 in cash with additional foreign currency, and large volumes of chemical precursors and production waste.
- Authorities say securing, cataloging, and disposing of the chemicals will take days into next week, with crews working in protective gear and disaster-response teams assisting.
- The raid capped a probe running since May under the Zollfahndungsamt Berlin-Brandenburg and Frankfurt (Oder) prosecutors, drawing in up to about 150 federal and state officers.
- Investigators report no crystal meth among the finds and plan forensic analyses of waste to estimate total output and potential networks, with Berlin cited as a likely market for the drugs.