French gendarmes revealed the International Criminal Syndicate, which engaged in trading in vigorous cars and smuggling cigarettes. Groupings from the post-Soviet space were involved in the network of criminals, including “Russian-speaking,” the National Gendarmerie of France reported.
“The gendarmes, a search and rescue unit of the city of Amiens and the Central Crimination Office (OCLDI) stopped the activities of a transnational criminal structure,” the gendarmerie state says, which quotes Interfax.
Following the operation, law enforcement agencies detained about forty people who were involved in syndicate. Most of the arrested are immigrants from Armenia and Georgia, they collaborated with the “transnational Russian-speaking mafia”. Gendarmes spent searches on 61 objects.