500 arrested in Europol raids against organised crime

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European police have arrested over 500 suspects,
seized over 2.8 tonnes of cocaine and hundred
of vehicles in a series of raids against organised
crime ,Europol said on Monday

Police from all 28 European Union countries
and elsewhere carried out the raids in 260
locations between May 4 and June 24 as part
of  Operation Blue Amber,the pan-European
policing agency said in a statement

Police and customs high confiscated 390
vehicles and seized nearly 1,300 tonnes of
stolen metal as well as 110 kilos of heroin
it said,

Operations targeted high- volume trafficking
in cargo containers ,drug couriers flying to
Europe from South America as well as drug
parcels sent to Europe from Pakistan and
Afghanistan "on a daily basis" Europol said,

"The concealment methods vary greatly
from hiding cocaine in clothes and shoe
insoles"to caching heroin in medical
instruments it said,

The operation also led to the arrest of 'several"
people sumgglers and the discovery of a safe
house for illegal migrants in Hungary
AFP