Nine people were arrested in Isère and the Loire, suspected of being the source of significant drug trafficking, we learned Friday, November 19 from the prosecutor’s office. Among them, four were indicted in Grenoble for “drug trafficking, execution of concealed work, general laundering and laundering of drug trafficking”, according to the Grenoble prosecutor.
The four defendants, aged 22 to 29, allegedly sold cannabis on a website marketing CBD (cannabidiol). They denied the accusation while the analysis of numerous samples shows “that the drug seized had a THC level on average four times higher than the legal rate of 0.2%”, indicated Eric Vaillant, the prosecutor of Grenoble, in a press release.
A stock worth 5 million euros
“It is under the legal guise of a digital company, with an associated website, that traffickers manage to transmit more than 2,000 parcels per month to their customers, both in France and abroad”, recording “Nearly 300,000 euros in monthly revenue”, according to the same source.
Three companies based in Isère and Italy were used “to package and send the goods”, the “financial package” allowing traffickers to “defraud the administrations and launder large sums of money”. A total of 535 kg of weed and 57 kg of cannabis resin, worth five million euros on resale, were seized during the searches, as well as 245,000 euros from an Italian bank account, according to the statement. parquet.