The officers of the Central Police Investigation Bureau (CBŚP) liquidated the warehouse of the gang that smuggled weapons to Sweden. Police officers seized submachine guns, ammunition and firearms. These are the next actions of CBŚP in the investigation conducted with the cooperation of the Swedish police. Previously, seven people had been arrested, drugs and ten weapons seized.

The gang in a rented garage in one of the towns in Silesia hid seven weapons, including the “Scorpion” submachine gun with a silencer, two Mossberg shotguns, and a post-Soviet “Ppsh-41”. Nearly a thousand pieces of ammunition were also found in the warehouse. The weapon was also to be smuggled into Sweden.

The search was a result of the CBŚP obtaining information about the place where one of the suspects may store firearms. The case began in October 2021 with the finding by the Swedish services in the port of Ystad of 10 Glocks with ammunition and magazines hidden in packages with washing powder. They were included in two shipments to Sweden, which Markus F. sent in Stalowa Wola, a company providing transport services.

The Swedish services stopped the drivers and secured the delivery truck with which the parcels were transported. In the course of further activities, it was established that a firearms and drugs smuggling channel, organized by Polish citizens operating in an international criminal group, leads from Poland to Sweden.

The smuggling was carried out under the guise of importing and exporting legal goods, such as car parts. Markus F. sent another parcel to Sweden in November. Its inspection carried out in the port in Świnoujście by officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Customs Service showed that it contained nearly two kilograms of a psychotropic substance, prohibited in Poland. Its black-market value is approx. PLN 80 thousand. CBŚP does not rule out further arrests.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński