Last week, the Court of the Faroe Islands found five Danes guilty in money laundering and the smuggling of 18 kilograms of hemp and 800 grams of hemp oil.
Four of the men were found guilty of smugling hemp to the Faroe Islands. One of them was also found guilty of money laundering at an amount of 1.3 million DKK. The fifth defendant was found guilty of selling 200 grams of amfetamine.
The defendants, all men between the ages of 23 and 41, were handed prison sentences spanning between 16 and 34 months. A sixth defendant, a 22-year-old man was found not guilty.
It was last year that Faroese customs officers discovered 1.3 million DKK in cash, stashed in a car arriving aboard cruise ferry Norröna. Two people were arrested, and later that day police investigations led to the arrest of two other persons near Kirkjubø in the outskirts of Tórshavn, and the seizure of 18 kg of cannabis from aboard a sailboat. On the following day, a fifth defendant was arrested.
Alongside drugs and cash, the police confiscated the implicated car as well as the sailboat where the drugs and money had been discovered.
Unfortunately, as this court case highlights, organized crime of this nature is becoming increasingly normalized, the Faroe Islands Police noted.
