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Suspected of having given information to drug traffickers, a police officer, along with 14 other people, were indicted following the dismantling this week of a major cannabis importation and resale network.
More than a hundred kilos of drugs were found during a search.
Fifteen people, including a Val-de-Marne police officer suspected of having given information to drug traffickers, were indicted following the dismantling this week of a major drug importation and resale network. cannabis, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Saturday.
Among the fifteen suspects, four, including the police officer, were placed under judicial supervision by a judge of freedoms and detention of the Paris judicial court.
The eleven other people were placed in pre-trial detention, added the prosecution, specifying that incarceration had been requested for all of those accused.
They had been arrested at the start of the week in the Paris region, mainly in Essonne, as part of an investigation entrusted in early 2023 to the gendarmes of the research sections of Paris and Versailles, under the authority of Junalco (National Jurisdiction responsible for fight against organized crime).
A chance discovery of 300 kilos of cannabis resin
More than a hundred kilos of cannabis were found during the search, said a source close to the investigation.
Investigations into this network began with the fortuitous discovery of 300 kilos of cannabis resin in a car after a refusal to comply in a town in Essonne.
During their investigation, the gendarmes identified a major network importing cannabis resin and herb from Spain, based in Essonne.
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They also understood that the traffickers were in contact with a police officer stationed in a police station in Val-de-Marne.
He is suspected of having illegally consulted police files, in particular the Vehicle Registration System (SIV), and of having transmitted the information to the network.
The investigations must in particular determine whether the police officer simply consulted the files illegally or whether he worked "directly with the traffickers", estimated the close source.
The judicial investigation carried out by a Junalco investigating judge concerns in particular facts of importation of narcotics by organized gangs, criminal conspiracy, money laundering, corruption and misappropriation of the purpose of personal data.