1,200 kg of cannabis resin seized in marble slabs at Gothenburg port
Swedish Customs found 1,200 kg of cannabis resin hidden in fake marble slabs among three container loads from Morocco in November 2020, the country's largest cannabis seizure. Controlled deliveries led to arrests, and several defendants were later jailed for up to nine years.
In November 2020 Swedish Customs stopped three container loads of marble slabs from Morocco in the port of Gothenburg and found 1,200 kilograms of cannabis resin hidden in fake slabs mixed among the real ones.[1][2]The shipment was addressed to a company in Kungälv; customs officers watched a controlled delivery and found the load re-routed to a company in Kinna, where they arrested representatives of both firms plus two more people who had handled parts of the haul.[1]The seizure was the largest cannabis seizure Swedish Customs had ever made, valued first at about 100 million kronor and later at about 120 million.[1][2]
Five people went on trial at Gothenburg District Court in April 2021.[2]Two defendants were later sentenced to seven and seven-and-a-half years in prison for particularly serious drug smuggling.[1]Encrypted-phone material recovered in the international Trojan Shield operation implicated more people: another man was sentenced to nine years in 2022, and two more were charged in March 2023.[1]
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Östersund District Court has tried four men over the transport of cannabis to northern Norway, in a case that began when police in Östersund stopped a car with just under 2 kg of suspected cannabis in the luggage. The men's alleged offences involved buying the cannabis in Gothenburg and carrying it through Sweden to Norway, where prosecutors said it was sold on.
Norrköping District Court sentenced a 23-year-old from the city to two years and three months in prison for a gross drug offence after he stored just over 116 grams of cocaine and 218 grams of cannabis. He admitted the offence, and the court found that the information he gave about the dealers he owed money to did not affect his sentence.
Charged 1Cannabis 218 gPrison 2 years and 3 months
A man in Söderhamn was convicted of drug and weapons offences after police found a basement cannabis grow, weapons and ammunition in his home in September 2024. Police seized almost 3.3 kilos of cannabis plants plus a smaller amount of hashish; he said the cannabis was for his own medical use.
Örebro District Court sentenced a man in his 50s, from Ulricehamn, to five years for a gross drug offence after police found nearly 100 kg of cannabis in seven boxes at his workplace in Örebro. He said he had taken the load to repay a debt; the court did not believe him.
