He organized drug trafficking between the Netherlands and the Vendée.
On Wednesday, a man was sentenced by the Sables-d'Olonne criminal court to ten years in prison, as well as a fine of 400,000 euros, the gendarmerie announced.
The searches carried out during the investigation resulted in the seizure of a large quantity of drugs worth more than one million euros: 15 kg of ketamine, more than 30,000 sachets of ecstasy, two kilos of amphetamines or a liter of GHB, according to a press release.
Weapons, vehicles worth 120,000 euros, ammunition and false identity documents were also seized.
These searches follow the interception on Saturday of a vehicle from the Netherlands.
False identities
Two people had been arrested: a man suspected of being the leader of this network, who admitted in police custody "to being at the head of a traffic feeding the middle of the free parties", and an accomplice, sentenced to six months' imprisonment with probation.
This international network was discovered in May by investigators from the Sables-d'Olonne research brigade, according to the press release from the national gendarmerie.
The man suspected of being at the head of this traffic used false identities and had "an expensive lifestyle with expenses" amounting to "several hundred thousand euros, especially in casinos", d 'after the same source.
More than 360 kg of cocaine seized at the port of Montoir-de-Bretagne
Accused of having multiplied drug-laden trips from Spain
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