Cocaine in Dutch cheeses to Sweden
August 10, 2021

Quantities of cocaine in Dutch cheeses were smuggled to Sweden in 2020. This emerged in a lawsuit in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, in which prison sentences were handed out up to 12 years in prison. The evidence in the case comes in part from EncroChat chats hacked by police. In a previous case , a court in Sweden rejected the use of Encro chats.

The prime suspect is a member of the notorious Ali Khan family in Gothenburg. A total of seven suspects have been convicted in the case. One of the suspects has also been convicted of importing amphetamine oil.

The suspects were caught red-handed with 18.5 kilos of cocaine in August 2020 after the police listened live in the spring of that year with mutual messages from Encro users. This happened through a collaboration between the French and Dutch authorities, who passed on the results of their hack to, among others, the Swedish police.