35 mafiasiktet for the sale of dangerous fireworks: Exported to Norway

35 people are arrested in the action, charged with being members of an organized criminal group, which in Norway is equivalent mafiaparagrafen, penal code §60a.

Four online stores: Bomba Shop, Ultras Shop, Psycho Effect and Pyro Fans, are closed.

The pågrepne is alleged to have driven both the illegal smuggling of fireworks and explosives, tax evasion and money laundering. The suspects were residing at the addresses in Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and France. It is not known whether or not they acknowledge straffskyld.

Several of the areas in Poland where the largest seizures were made, had to be evacuated in order that the neighbors would not be damaged when the illegal fireworks should be transported in safety.

Parts of the fitting are the fireworks that were on their way in the mail to customers in Germany.

A part of the seized fireworks was so powerful that postansatte as ekspederte the packages were in great danger, according to Europol.

The four online shops exported to the whole of Europe, according to Europol. the

the Newspaper has Sunday been in contact with the Customs, which, because of the weekend not have had the opportunity to assist with information about the Norwegian seizures of illegal fireworks on the way into the country.

at Least one of the shops advertised according to Dagbladet surveys that they exported to Norway. And on various internet forums discussed another of the stores as a source for the powerful fireworks that are not to get hold of legally in the Uk.

Exactly how much dangerous fireworks from the Polish shops which are ordered by uk customers there is probably no one who knows.

There are, according to the Customs office no statistics on the trafficking of fireworks. In juletida in the year there was a total of seized 218 pinneraketter and 113 other fyrverkeripakker.

But according to the Customs, were all of the seizures from random rutinekontroller, so that the figure on the importation probably is far higher. It is the days before the new year is smuggled into the most fireworks. But the Customs make seizures all year round, illuminated the agency in the last year.