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Three Quebecers have been arrested in Peru after a joint operation into an alleged worldwide drug-smuggling community dubbed “Los Nórdicos” (the northerners), the Peruvian authorities says.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had been concerned in investigating the operation, the South American nation stated in a Feb. 2 press launch.
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The community allegedly despatched consignments of illicit medicine to Canada and European international locations amid merchandise shipped by third events.
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The three Quebecers arrested in Peru had been: Fréderic Dewald, 25; Bo Soleil Morin, 27; and Francis Toupin, 34, the Peruvian authorities stated. A fourth Quebecer, Mathieu Provost, was arrested in Montreal.
4 Peruvians and a Venezuelan had been additionally arrested.
Two handguns, automobiles and money had been seized in raids on 11 buildings in and across the capital Lima and within the metropolis of Huánuco, Peruvian police stated.
Between June 2022 and January 2023, Peru’s nationwide police drive and the RCMP seized a complete of 164,803 kilos of cocaine hydrochloride that the group tried to move, the Peruvian authorities stated.
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