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With almost 10,000 drug-classified tablets sewn into their clothes, two men and a woman came ashore from the Polen ferry in Ystad harbor in November. The clothes rattled when they were examined, a customs official describes in an interrogation.
Despite suspicion of smuggling, the trio were released, who then headed towards an apartment in Malmö, while scouting customs officers followed. When the apartment was raided, the suspects were preparing the tablets for sale.
The two men and the woman are now charged with serious drug smuggling, reports Ystads Allehanda. The seizure included 9,960 oxycodone tablets, which on the illegal market have a price of upwards of SEK 500 each.
– It is not a pleasant drug, referring to the fact that it is highly addictive and has caused major problems in other countries, says Erik Friberg, deputy head of the customs crime unit in Malmö, to the newspaper.