Man from Noord-Brabant arrested for selling illegal pesticides to customers in Europe

1 week ago

Dutch man wanted for drug trafficking arrested in Spain

NL Times

Spanish police arrested a 43-year-old Dutchman in Moraira, Spain, who is wanted by Dutch authorities for trafficking 4,000 kilograms of cocaine in 2020. Spanish media reported that the man is accused of organizing the importation of 4,000 kilograms of highly pure cocaine into Europe, with an estimated street value of 228 million euros. According to the Spanish National Police, the …

Spain Dutch Netherlands Man Spanish Moraira

1 week, 3 days ago

Man arrested with 6.7 kg cannabis

The Hindu

Under the Drugs-free Mangaluru initiative of Mangaluru City Police, the Central Crime Branch police on Friday, arrested a man for allegedly transporting and selling cannabis and seized 6.7 kg of the contraband in Mulki. Acting on a tip off, the CCB team apprehended him in Bappanadu of Mulki when he was allegedly attempting to sell cannabis to public. The seized …

Man

1 week, 4 days ago

L.A. wants to ban using nitrous oxide to get high. But challenges loom

LA Times

Nitrous oxide canisters used to get high lie on a street in downtown San Francisco in February 2022. In a 14-0 vote last month, the council directed the city attorney to analyze Rialto’s 2017 ordinance to ban the sale of nitrous oxide to minors. “Nitrous oxide is a trending drug that is extremely addictive, harmful, and now more than ever, …

Gas City California Young People Los Angeles Hernandez Ban

2 weeks, 3 days ago

10 arrested in two days; ganja, meth seized

New Indian Express

CHENNAI: Eight persons have been arrested by the city police in three drug busts at Washermenpet, Koyembedu and Ambattur. In Washermenpet, police arrested four persons for smuggling and selling 3,700 drug tablets on Thursday. At Koyambedu, police arrested two history sheeters — Dheena alias Gopalakrishnan of Nerkundram and Thirunavukarasu of Virugambakkam — on Thursday for selling ganja and drugs to …

Arrested Meth Seized

1 month ago

Criminals using Netherlands as "hub" for people smuggling to United Kingdom

NL Times

Criminal organizations are using the Netherlands as a “hub” for people smuggling from Europe to the United Kingdom, the Public Prosecution Service told the Telegraaf. Criminals buy boats and the other nautical items they need here and sometimes also house people in the Netherlands who are waiting to make the dangerous crossing, the newspaper wrote. Think of the purchase, storage, …

Netherlands Smuggling Hoekstra

1 month, 1 week ago

Noida man arrested for Rs 60 lakh cannabis garden in flat

Deccan Chronicle

A 46-year-old man, Rahul Chaudhury, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly cultivating a cannabis garden in a flat at Parsvnath Panorama near the Pi-3 roundabout in Greater Noida. Police seized around 80 cannabis plants, valued at approximately Rs 60 lakh, along with fertilizers, seeds, and chemicals. This arrest follows recent similar incidents, including one in Bengaluru where a couple was …

Noida Chaudhury Growing Cannabis

1 month, 1 week ago

How Noida man created cannabis ‘nursery’ in rented flat and sold it on dark web

Firstpost

A 46-year-old man has been arrested in Greater Noida for illegally cultivating at least 80 cannabis plants in his rented apartment within a housing society. In a related operation last month, the Narcotics Control Bureau and the Delhi Police Special Cell seized nearly 95 kg of drugs during a raid on an industrial site in Greater Noida. https://t.co/TAniE7jCUQ pic.twitter.com/kOtb6171Gh — …

Delhi Cannabis Plants Man Web Noida Pti

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Dutchman arrested in Thailand for ecstasy, cannabis trafficking

NL Times

The Thai police arrested a Dutchman and a British man on Wednesday on suspicion of drug trafficking. According to the local authorities, the duo smuggled ecstasy into Thailand and planned to smuggle cannabis from Thailand to the United Kingdom. “Packing equipment and a machine to vacuum pack the drugs were also found,” the Thai police said on Facebook. Documents found …

Cannabis Dutchman Thai Thailand Drug

3 months, 1 week ago

Illegal tobacco haul reaches 2023's total with four months to go

Dutch News

Customs and finance minister investigators have seized 120 million illegal cigarettes so far this year, the same amount as they discovered in 2023 as a whole, the Volkskrant has reported. In April, the price of a packet of 20 cigarettes rose to around €11, of which €7.81 is down to taxes, and research suggests the increase is leading more smokers …

Illegal Tobacco Cigarettes

3 months, 1 week ago

Illegal tobacco haul reaches 2023's total with four months to go

Dutch News

Customs and finance minister investigators have seized 120 million illegal cigarettes so far this year, the same amount as they discovered in 2023 as a whole, the Volkskrant has reported. In April, the price of a packet of 20 cigarettes rose to around €11, of which €7.81 is down to taxes, and research suggests the increase is leading more smokers …

Cigarettes

5 months, 2 weeks ago

60kg cannabis being smuggled to Delhi seized, 3 arrested

Hindustan Times

Noida: The Noida Police on Friday arrested three people for allegedly smuggling 60 kilograms of cannabis -- estimated to be worth over ₹25 lakh -- from Odisha to Noida, officers said. Kumar, the alleged mastermind, revealed during interrogation that they didn’t bring large consignments rather carried it “in smaller quantities by hiding it and travelling trains and buses”. According to …

Suspects Ghaziabad Dcp Noida Kumar

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Dutch drugs smuggler tries to evade police by swimming to shore

Dutch News

Two men, one Dutch and one English, have been charged with drugs smuggling after they were spotted in an inflatable boat carrying 350 kilos of cocaine off the coast of England. The boat with two men and the drugs on board was sighted by coastguard close to the seaside village of Wrentham in Suffolk on Monday. Dutch national Ferhat G, …

Dutch Drugs

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Dutch drugs smuggler tries to evade police by swimming to shore

Dutch News

Two men, one Dutch and one English, have been charged with drugs smuggling after they were spotted in an inflatable boat carrying 350 kilos of cocaine off the coast of England. The boat with two men and the drugs on board was sighted by coastguard close to the seaside village of Wrentham in Suffolk on Monday. Dutch national Ferhat G, …

Dutch Drugs

5 months, 4 weeks ago

[S.33 Insecticides Act] All Those Responsible For Conduct Of Business Liable When Company Commits Offense Under Insecticides Act: J&K High Court

Live Law

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court has ruled that under the Insecticides Act, 1968, if a company commits an offence, both the company and the individuals in charge at the time are considered guilty and can be prosecuted and punished. Aggrieved of the same Mr. Karman Singh Johal, counsel for the petitioners, argued that the proceedings and the …

Court Company Act Prosecuted Offence Petitioners Insecticides

6 months, 1 week ago

Dutch slaughterhouses embroiled in new horse meat scandal

Dutch News

The Dutch food and product safety board NVWA says it has no evidence that illegally slaughtered horse meat is currently for sale on the Dutch market but that an investigation into fraud involving horse passports has been recently passed to the public prosecution department. The response follows claims by Dutch animal welfare campaign group House of Animals and Irish broadcaster …

Europe Dutch Netherlands Meat Horse Horse Meat

6 months, 1 week ago

Dutch slaughterhouses embroiled in new horse meat scandal

Dutch News

The Dutch food and product safety board NVWA says it has no evidence that illegally slaughtered horse meat is currently for sale on the Dutch market but that an investigation into fraud involving horse passports has been recently passed to the public prosecution department. The response follows claims by Dutch animal welfare campaign group House of Animals and Irish broadcaster …

Europe Dutch Netherlands Meat Horse Horse Meat

7 months, 1 week ago

Police bust drug trade in Coimbatore city, Thondamuthur; seize methamphetamine, prescription tablets

The Hindu

The Coimbatore City Police on Thursday arrested five persons and seized methamphetamine and prescription tablets from them. The arrested have been identified as Praveen Shetty, 36, Arvind Nagar in Dharwad in Karnataka; Coimbatore natives Shahul Hameed, 27, of Kurichi junction; K. Murugan, 27, of Sowripalayam; Akbar Ali, 28, of Sunnambu Kalvai near Karumbukadai; and Riyaz Khan, 24, of Kuniyamuthur. Coimbatore …

City Coimbatore Coimbatore City Seized Methamphetamine Praveen Shetty Thondamuthur

7 months, 1 week ago

Kerala police seize 93 bottles of heroin from Assam man’s store in Perumbavoor

New Indian Express

KOCHI: A native of Assam, operating a pillow shop in Perumbavoor allegedly as a front for selling heroin, was arrested by the police on Sunday. The frequent arrival of migrant workers at the shop at Jyothi Junction raised suspicion, prompting the police to investigate further. A police officer involved in the investigation said Mehboob’s method involved bringing heroin from Assam …

Migrant Workers Perumbavoor

8 months, 2 weeks ago

Dutch arrested in Spain for trade in cocaine soaked wood pellets

Dutch News

Spanish police have arrested five members of a drugs gang, several Dutch nationals among them, during a raid in the Catalan city of Reus on Sunday, Spanish media reported. The gang, whose members come from Albania, Lithuania and the Netherlands, had hit upon a “very sophisticated method” to hide the drugs by impregnating 16 tonnes of wood pellets used as …

Wood Pellets

9 months ago

Ban on disposable vapes will not reduce consumption, says Dutch e-cigarette association

NL Times

The announced sales ban on disposable vapes in Belgium, just like the flavor ban in the Netherlands, will not help young people use fewer e-cigarettes, said Emil 't Hart, chairman of the Dutch Industry Association of Electronic Cigarette Sellers. With the ban from January 1 next year, Belgium wants to ensure that young people, in particular, use fewer products containing …

Young People Belgium Hart Disposable Vapes Vapes Online Disposable Vapes Online Dutch Ban

9 months ago

Dutch fugitive tied to Italian mafia arrested in Guyana

NL Times

A Dutch fugitive allegedly tied to the Italian mafia clan ‘Ndrangheta has been arrested in Guyana. Vitesh G. has been on the Interpol wanted list since November 2019 for “criminal conspiracy” and international drug trafficking, De Telegraaf reports. The Dutch Public Prosecution Service described ‘Ndrangheta as an “aggressive, mafia-like criminal organization” in 2018 when it announced its participation in an …

Dutch Guyana Mafia Ndrangheta

10 months, 2 weeks ago

4,000 kg ‘illegal’ meat seized from market in Govandi; 3 vendors fined

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: 4,000 kg ‘illegal’ meat seized from market in Govandi; 3 vendors fined The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s markets department has seized nearly 4,000 kg of allegedly illegal goat and sheep meat from the Kena market in Govandi west over the past one week. The seized meat comprises offal such as head, legs, brain and intestines of goat and sheep slaughtered …

Mumbai Market Meat Bmc Vendors Illegal Seized

1 year ago

Some 18,000 kilograms of illegal, wrongly labeled fireworks seized from Dutch importer

NL Times

This week, the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate seized around 18,000 kilograms of fireworks from a Dutch fireworks importer. In the importer’s bunkers, the ILT found multiple boxes of fireworks that have been banned in the Netherlands since 1 December 2020. “The CE marking stands for the safety and quality of the product and must be the logical consequence of …

Dutch Fireworks Ilt Illegal Wrongly

1 year ago

Colombians among 10 arrested at cocaine processing plant near German border

NL Times

Ten suspects were arrested on Wednesday at a cocaine processing plant in Overdinkel, as reported by sources close to the investigation to RTV Oost. The discovery of the cocaine laundry was made by police officers who responded to neighborhood complaints about strange odors in the area, the police reported on Wednesday. We doen op dit moment onderzoek in een pand …

Een

1 year, 1 month ago

Eight people arrested in the Rotterdam region for large-scale drug smuggling

NL Times

Eight people from the Rotterdam region were arrested on Tuesday as part of a long-running investigation into serious crime. They are suspected of importing hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, possessing weapons, and taking bribes, among other things, the Public Prosecution Service reported on Friday. Deze week was er een grote actie met 8 aanhoudingen💪https://t.co/0PtIv8HvbG pic.twitter.com/UfawFdq1y0 — Openbaar Ministerie Rotterdam November …

Public Prosecution Rotterdam

1 year, 4 months ago

Two Dutch caught with drugs in Spain; Immediately sentenced to prison, fine

NL Times

Two Dutch people were arrested in Spain on Thursday with hashish, weed, and ecstasy pills in the car. They were accused of “a crime against public health” by drug trafficking and sentenced the next day to a year in prison and a fine, NOS reports. They were driving on the N-620 in northern Spain on Thursday evening when the police …

Spain Dutch Two Dutch

1 year, 4 months ago

Dutch man arrested in massive cybercrime case; Accused of large-scale identity fraud

NL Times

A 32-year-old Dutchman who lives in Brazil was arrested in the international cybercrime investigation “Operation Cookie Monster.” The man is accused of buying and using thousands of people’s identities on the Genesis Market, which the FBI took down in April. “We suspect that this man spent tens of thousands of euros on the market and is, therefore, the largest Dutch …

Market Dutch Man Genesis Market Van Well

1 year, 5 months ago

Officials seize illegal slimming pills, warn about health impact

Dutch News

The Dutch product safety board has seized a consignment of 8,000 illegal slimming pills which include the banned drug amphetamine. Two people were arrested in Rotterdam, including one who was picked up last year for selling illegal slimming pills. Slimming pills such as Iomax, which is not an official name, can lead to serious health issues including palpitations, chest pain, …

Slimming Pills Nvwa Illegal Drug Iomax Company Premises Pills Warn Illegal Slimming Pills

1 year, 6 months ago

Bulb farm ordered to stop spraying pesticides in landmark case

Dutch News

A court in Assen has ruled that a lily bulb grower must stop using pesticides because they may be causing neurological diseases. The judge upheld a claim by two outdoor activity companies and a group of private individuals who are based near the Natura 2000 area Drents-Friese Wolde Leggelderveld. Even though the lily farm owner has been taking measures to …

1 year, 6 months ago

Bulb farm ordered to stop spraying pesticides in landmark case

Dutch News

A court in Assen has ruled that a lily bulb grower must stop using pesticides because they may be causing neurological diseases. The judge upheld a claim by two outdoor activity companies and a group of private individuals who are based near the Natura 2000 area Drents-Friese Wolde Leggelderveld. Even though the lily farm owner has been taking measures to …

1 year, 6 months ago

Raids in Netherlands part of massive EU VAT fraud case involving 10,000 cars

NL Times

Police and tax investigators in seven countries, including the Netherlands, raided over 450 addresses in an extensive investigation into VAT fraud involving the international trade of some 10,000 cars. According to EPPO, the suspects achieved a turnover of around 225 million euros and caused at least 38 million euros in VAT damage with their scheme. After that, they sold the …

Netherlands Cars German Vat Fraud Case Vat Fraud

1 year, 6 months ago

Ports in a storm: Europe wants common approach to drug smuggling

Dutch News

Containers of fruit shipped from South America are the biggest risk for cocaine smuggling to Europe, according to a coalition working to fight drug crime. “International criminal organisations have a number of ingenious systems and constructions to evade controls as much as possible,” said the Belgian home affairs ministry in a press release. “Key figures in important administrative and checking …

Europe Drug Smuggling

1 year, 6 months ago

Ports in a storm: Europe wants common approach to drug smuggling

Dutch News

Containers of fruit shipped from South America are the biggest risk for cocaine smuggling to Europe, according to a coalition working to fight drug crime. “International criminal organisations have a number of ingenious systems and constructions to evade controls as much as possible,” said the Belgian home affairs ministry in a press release. “Key figures in important administrative and checking …

Europe Drug Smuggling

1 year, 6 months ago

'Himachal's Baddi Becoming 'Hub' Of Spurious Drugs': NHRC Notice To Health Ministry, DCGI And FSSAI

ABP News

The National Human Rights Commission issued a notice to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, and the Drugs Controller General of India on Friday in response to a media report that the Baddi Industrial area of Solan in Himachal Pradesh has become a production hub for spurious vitamins, syrups, and drugs …

Food Drugs Companies State Fssai Himachal Pradesh Himachal

1 year, 7 months ago

Tamil Nadu hooch tragedy: Police nab methyl alcohol supplier

The Hindu

Published : May 17, 2023 19:26 IST - 4 MINS READ Even as the death toll in the Tamil Nadu hooch tragedy rose to 22 on May 17, a special team under the direct supervision of Director General of Police C. Sylendra Babu arrested Elaiyan Nambi, a 30-year-old chemical engineer working at a firm in Vanagaram in Chennai, on the …

Tamil Nadu Liquor Villages Village Puducherry Villupuram Methyl Alcohol

1 year, 8 months ago

Man booked for illegally storing pesticides, fertilisers in Bathinda

Hindustan Times

Chandigarh : A man has been booked for allegedly storing pesticides and fertilisers illegally at a warehouse in Bathinda, agriculture minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal said. A man has been booked for allegedly storing pesticides and fertilisers illegally at a warehouse in Bathinda, agriculture minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal said. During the checking, a large quantity of insecticides and fertilisers were found …

Bathinda Fertilisers

1 year, 9 months ago

The Netherlands punishes ‘stealthing’: What is this sex crime and which countries have made it illegal?

Firstpost

A post-Me Too world put consent in the spotlight. Representational picture/Reuters A 2017 paper “‘Rape-Adjacent’: Imagining Legal Responses to Nonconsensual Condom Removal” written by Alexandra Brodsky, a civil rights litigator and a legal fellow for the National Women’s Law Center in the United States, spoke about how “stealthing” is a “grave violation of dignity and autonomy”. In the first conviction …

Law India Consent Sexual Assault Netherlands Court Rape

1 year, 9 months ago

Police arrest 3 from Noida pharma firm linked to Uzbekistan children’s deaths

Hindustan Times

Based on a complaint filed by the central drug regulator on Thursday regarding sale of adulterated and spurious products, Noida police on Friday arrested three officials of Marion Biotech, whose cough syrup has been linked to the death of 18 children in Uzbekistan. The FIR was lodged over an ongoing investigation by central and state drug authorities that found Marion’s …

Drugs Noida Central Fir Drug Uzbekistan Marion

1 year, 10 months ago

Drug bust: police finds 4,000 kg of cocaine in Belgium, 9 Dutchmen arrested

NL Times

Of the ten men who were arrested in Belgium last Tuesday by the Belgian police in connection with a major drug discovery, nine have Dutch nationality. On Tuesday, Belgian police became aware of a suspicious situation in Steenweg in Ravels, near the Dutch border. The Dutch police reported on Friday that house searches followed Thursday, with four automatic firearms and …

Dutch Belgian

1 year, 11 months ago

Government blocking ban on toxic emissions from inland shipping: study

NL Times

Several Ministers and State Secretaries of Infrastructure and Water Management have misinformed the Tweede Kamer about their inability to ban the emission of toxic fumes by inland shipping. “First, we found that international treaties concerning the international carriage of goods and waste generated during navigation in rivers do not contain any provisions that would bar the Dutch government to enact …

Human Rights Dutch Netherlands Inland Shipping Blocking Ban Degassing Arcuri

1 year, 11 months ago

€354 million in cocaine found at Rotterdam port; 34 arrested

NL Times

In the period between the last days of 2022 and the first days of 2023, 34 people were arrested during checks in the port of Rotterdam and customs seized 4726 kilograms of cocaine. In the process, customs officers discovered 30 packages with a total of 1121 kilograms of cocaine in a container of frozen fruit juice from Brazil as well …

Cocaine Kilograms Customs Officers

2 years ago

Noord-Brabant families most likely to have multiple members linked to drug crimes

NL Times

Families with two or more members suspected of a drug crime are most common in Noord-Brabant of all the Dutch provinces. The province has 5,500 residents suspected of drug crimes, with a family member also suspected of a drug offense. In the Noord-Brabant village of Nuenen, 62 percent of drug suspects have a family member also suspected of a drug …

Crime Family Drug Member Drug Crimes Noord Drug Suspects

2 years ago

Two arrested for selling laughing gas without permits, money laundering

NL Times

The police arrested two men from Den Bosch and Boxtel for illegally transferring laughing gas from large cylinders to small cylinders for sale to private users without the proper permits. But it is already illegal to transfer the gas to small cylinders for selling to private users without permits, the police said. The police suspect the two men have been …

Money Laundering Nitrous Oxide Den Bosch

2 years ago

Police in Coimbatore ask e-commerce companies to tip-off them about purchase of explosive chemicals

The Hindu

The car explosion in front of Sangameswarar temple in the city on October 23 has made the Coimbatore City Police expand its radar on e-commerce and courier companies. City Police Commissioner V. Balakrishnan on Friday asked representatives of e-commerce companies to tip-off the police about persons, who place orders for chemicals that can be misused for making explosives. The investigation …

Chemicals Parcel Companies Coimbatore Ask

2 years, 2 months ago

Police arrest 17 in Dordrecht for trying to smuggle drugs out of the country

NL Times

The police arrested 17 people in Dordrecht on Thursday for trying to smuggle drugs out of the Netherlands by car. The arrests were part of an international stop-and-search action against drug trafficking and -tourism, the Dutch police said on Monday. They also confiscated five cars for transporting drugs or because the diver had been caught multiple times without incense. The …

2 years, 3 months ago

Netherlands lags on raising awareness of single use plastics ban

Dutch News

The Netherlands has not got to grips with EU legislation banning forms of single use plastic, according to a report by environmental campaigners. Although the ruling came into force on January 1 2022, the report says that some countries are ‘laggards’ in introducing local legislation, others are ‘unambitious’ and some have ‘adopted damaging measures or exemptions.’ Red mark The report …

Netherlands Report Ban Plastic Single Single Use Plastic Single Use Plastics

2 years, 3 months ago

Netherlands lags on raising awareness of single use plastics ban

Dutch News

The Netherlands has not got to grips with EU legislation banning forms of single use plastic, according to a report by environmental campaigners. Although the ruling came into force on January 1 2022, the report says that some countries are ‘laggards’ in introducing local legislation, others are ‘unambitious’ and some have ‘adopted damaging measures or exemptions.’ Red mark The report …

Netherlands Zero Waste Report Ban Plastic Single Single Use Plastic

2 years, 5 months ago

Three men living in the Netherlands arrested in Bavaria's largest ever drug bust

NL Times

Three men who reside in the Netherlands were arrested in Germany on allegations they were involved in smuggling more than a thousand kilograms of cocaine. It is the largest drug bust ever in the German state of Bavaria, the customs authorities in Munich reported Monday. The three suspects were arrested when they tried to remove the cocaine from the container …

Container German Netherlands Arrested

2 years, 6 months ago

Drug smugglers deliver £68 million worth of cocaine to supermarkets by mistake

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Cocaine worth almost £70m has …

Cocaine 68 Million

Man from Noord-Brabant arrested for selling illegal pesticides to customers in Europe

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