Six charged as Czech-Slovak operation seizes 25 kg hashish and 100 plants
Czech police charged six people with trafficking drugs from Slovakia after an operation that seized 25 kg of hashish and a 100-plant indoor cannabis grow. Four of the accused are in pre-trial custody facing 10 to 18 years; police described the operation's 100 kg of methamphetamine seizure as a record.
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- Charged
- 6
- Plants destroyed
- 100
- Cannabis
- 25 kg
Officers from the National Drug Centre (NPC), Czechia’s anti-narcotics unit, charged six people with trafficking drugs between Slovakia and Czechia.[1] Four of the accused are in pre-trial custody and face 10 to 18 years in prison if convicted.[1] A fifth is being investigated at liberty and faces two to 10 years.[1] Police said the group’s head was a foreigner who brought drugs from Slovakia repeatedly, up to twice a month and in kilogram quantities.[2] One Czech accused ordered the shipments and decided where they went, and another worked as a courier, investigators said.[2]
At the home of one of the accused, officers found an indoor cannabis grow with modern equipment and seized 100 plants; police said the crop was not finished when they intervened.[2] Detectives were checking whether the same man took part in the rest of the methamphetamine and precursor trade.[2] In Slovakia, police seized 25 kg of hashish, a cannabis resin.[1] The operation also took 100 kg of methamphetamine, 5 kg of cocaine and 32 kg of pseudoephedrine-based medicine.[2] Police estimated the methamphetamine would have sold for 100 million koruna at 1,000 koruna a gram.[2]
The case, code-named Vivaldi, was described by the NPC’s director, Jakub Frydrych, and Milan Jonis, head of the Slovak anti-drug unit, as a record seizure of drugs of that size in Czechia and Slovakia.[1] Czech detectives worked on the case for nearly a year and Slovak officers for about six months.[1]
Sources
- Rekordní záchyt drog. Policie z obchodování s nimi obvinila šest lidí. ČT24, 18 December 2024. In Czech.
- Kriminalisté NPC zajistili metrák pervitinu. Policie České republiky, 18 December 2024. In Czech.
Open questions the AI reported
- The sources do not date the detentions or house searches; 18 December 2024 is the day the National Drug Centre announced the charges.
- The police press release says four people were detained and charged, then names two more detained men; its list of four in custody, one at liberty and one who died gives the six accused that ČT24 reported.
- One of the six accused has died, police said, without giving a cause, date or the status of the case against him; the death is not counted in the figures.
- Neither source names the accused or says where in Czechia the 100-plant grow was found.
- No court has ruled; the 10 to 18 year and two to 10 year terms are the penalties the charges carry, not sentences.
- Left out, as its quotation was not found in Policie České republiky: Two more men linked to the group were detained by regional police in Karlovy Vary and Prague.