By Reuters Staff
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Several hundred police and special forces officers raided more than 20 locations in Berlin and Brandenburg on Thursday as part of an investigation into organised crime, arms and drug trafficking and extortion, police said.
The raid is the result of an investigation by the Federal Criminal Police Department and tax investigation authorities in Berlin and Brandenburg following a clash between Arab and Chechen groups last November, police said.
Two people have been detained, Spiegel magazine reported. The focus of the investigation is a member of the Remmo clan, it added.
Reporting by Kirsti Knolle; Writing by Riham Alkousaa; Editing by Caroline Copley
A jailed critic of Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday hailed as a "moral victory" a court's dismissal of one of three cases against her, which stem from the president's allegations she prospered from illicit drugs under the previous government.
Bulgarian authorities have seized 401 kilograms of heroin hidden in containers on a ship that arrived at the Black Sea port of Varna from Dubai, the prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.
U.S. prosecutors are investigating Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, according to a new court filing, piling pressure on a leader who prosecutors have already accused of participation in the nation's bloody narcotics trade.
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BANGKOK, Feb 6 (Reuters) - A second senior leader of a vast drug syndicate has been arrested in Thailand, a narcotics official said, tightening a transnational dragnet on the group that police say dominates the $70 billion annual Asia-Pacific drug trade.
Following are some key alleged members of the Sam Gor drug syndicate, also known as “The Company”, who have fallen afoul of authorities:
-Tse Chi Lop (57): Also known as Sam Gor, or “Brother Number Three” in Cantonese, the China-born Canadian national was based in Asia and is the suspected senior leader of the syndicate. He was detained in the Netherlands in January pending extradition to Australia to face drug-trafficking charges. Tse’s lawyer declined to comment.