The Court of the Faroe Islands sentenced two men to two years and three months and two years and seven months in prison for smuggling about 50 kilograms of hash to the islands.[1] Police called it the single largest cannabis case the court had ever dealt with, valuing the haul at 12.5 to 15 million DKK.[1] A third man, a Lithuanian citizen, was acquitted of the smuggling counts but sentenced to four months for assault and related charges, deported and banned from the islands for three years.[1]
Police arrested and detained all three in August 2023 after seizing nearly 30 kg of cannabis at the Mjorkadalur detention centre.[1] Investigators found that hash was part of a 50 kg consignment smuggled into the Faroes in May 2023.[1] The court heard the two Faroese men had helped bring the drugs in and were to sell them, while the Lithuanian had come to collect money and had held captive, threatened and assaulted people while looking for cannabis believed stolen.[1] One of the jailed men received the shorter term after pleading guilty and cooperating.[1] The court also ordered confiscation of BMW cars and smartphones bought with drug money along with 200,000 DKK in cash.[1]