Court sentences five for operating illegal cannabis farms
Kymenlaakso District Court ordered one defendant to forfeit over €400,000 in assets gained from criminal activity.
Police seized over 200 cannabis plants during their investigation.
Kymenlaakso District Court has handed down two custodial and three suspended prison sentences following a police investigation into a professional cannabis farm that operated in the southeastern city of Kotka for around three years.
Police estimate the defendants made over a million euros in proceeds from the illegal drug farm. They also found that the operation, which began in 2017, also expanded to the Kainuu municipality of Posio in 2019.
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