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Organised Crime Branch drugs seizure charges

16 Feb 2010

Eight men are to appear at Belfast Magistrates Court, Laganside on Tuesday 16 February charged with conspiracy to supply drugs and a variety of money laundering offences.

As is normal procedure the charges will be reviewed by the Public Prosecution Service.

The charges are in connection with a Police Service of Northern Ireland Organised Crime Branch operation resulting in a £2 million drugs seizure in Kilkeel, Greater Belfast and Preston in England. A ninth person, a woman who was being questioned in England, was released pending report to the Public Prosecution Service.