Among other things, it will be about 40 3D-printed frames for coats and guns. According to the indictments, the weapon parts must have been ordered from China and Italy and sent by package to Sweden.
– Our assessment is that it has become increasingly common to smuggle weapon parts. Drawings are sent to factories abroad that manufacture the parts to order. It is about both industrial manufacturing and 3D-printed weapon parts, says Olov Hellqvist, group manager at the Swedish Customs Service’s criminal department in a press release.
It was last spring that the Swedish Customs Service’s staff found 20 pipes in a package at a freight terminal at Arlanda. Subsequently, other weapon parts were found in another shipment and both packages were addressed to a man in Vallentuna. After the man was arrested, two more men were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the smuggling.
– There was a seizure in the freight flow, that is, shipments via international flights from abroad. The investigation led to the 3D weapon parts, says Olov Hellqvist to SVT.
The suspected men are between 27 and 35 years old.