On Tuesday, German police arrested four Dutch citizens on the suspicion of running an illegal online pharmacy and selling illegal Viagra pills.
Translation by Traci White
Dagblad van het Noorden reports that the four suspects are all members of the same family and were detained by the police near the German border. When the police searched two homes in the German border towns of Sustrum-Moor and Heede, they found 170,000 euros in cash and 440,000 illegal Viagra pills. The police suspect that the pills originated from India.
A joint police investigation by German and Dutch alleged that the family was running an online pharmacy for the past two years, during which they made an estimated four million euros in sales. It is not yet clear which addresses the pills were being sent to.
The northern Netherlands police force is currently carrying out a weeklong campaign to roll up soft drug production and sales facilities across the region. As of Tuesday, the police reported that they had busted 23 marijuana groweries and taken 16 people into custody in Groningen, Drenthe and Friesland.
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