2021-05-26 14:06:10 GMT2021-05-26 22:06:10(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
HELSINKI, May 26 (Xinhua) Finnish Customs, cooperating with police, had uncovered about two million euros worth of marijuana smuggled from Latvia, and 15 suspects had been found involved in the suspected criminal offenses, said the customs on Wednesday.
The Finnish police suspected that a new type of organized criminal group in Finland is behind the case.
According to the preliminary investigation, an organized criminal group operating in Finland has coordinated the import of marijuana from Latvia and distributed drugs in Finland. Drug offenses are suspected to have occurred between December 2019 and December 2020, said the customs in a press release.
The trial of former rebel leader Gibril Massaquoi for war crimes committed in Liberia entered a new phase Tuesday with the first witness hearings in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, an AFP correspondent noted.
Gibril Massaquoi, a 51-year-old Sierra Leonean, is on trial for a litany of murders, rapes and torture perpetrated in Liberia by himself or rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) between 1999 and 2003.
Nicknamed Angel Gabriel at the time, he was a senior member of the RUF, a Sierra Leonean armed group led by Corporal Foday Sankoh, who was close to former Liberian warlord and later president, Charles Taylor.
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