Drug Mafia - group leader detained by the CBA
Another person acting as part of an organized criminal group detained in connection with an investigation into illegal drug trafficking.
The CBA officers from the Regional Office of the CBA in Białystok have detained another person in Warsaw in connection to the investigation into the so-called "drug mafia". This time it is a foreigner - possessing dual Israeli-British citizenship, and at the same time person associated with a company registered in Poland, which played a key role in the criminal procedure of so-called reverse drug distribution chain.
In the course of the investigation, it was established that the detained person together with other people led and participated in an organized criminal group, whose members, among others, issued and used documents attesting untruth, and also sold medicinal products from generally available pharmacies to pharmaceutical wholesalers, which then were sent abroad. The procedure was carried out through fictitious activity of the Private Health Care Facility.
The criminal group cracked by the Regional Office of the CBA in Białystok from January 2017 to May 2018 bought medicines worth over PLN 50 million. The detained man will be taken to the headquarters of the National Prosecutor's Office in Białystok, where he will be charged with participation and management of an organized criminal group.
This is another operation in this investigation. In the same case, in March and April 2019, 10 people were detained related to both pharmaceutical wholesalers and the owners of pharmacies cooperating with the group. 18 people were charged with the case.