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SPECIAL REPORT
Maritime Passenger Targeting
By Manu Niinioja, Law Enforcement Expert, WCC Group
A drug unit has been investigating organised crime groups smuggling drugs from the Netherlands to Finland. The investigation has just started when one potential female smuggler takes a flight from Helsinki to Amsterdam. National Passenger Information Unit (PIU) is alarmed to provide information when she flies back to Finland. In Bussum,
Border Security Report | March/April 2022
a small town some 30 km from Amsterdam, she receives two kilos of cocaine, which is worth EUR 200.000 - 300.000 in the streets of Finland, depending on how pure it is. Instead of taking a flight back to Helsinki, she takes a flight to Tallinn (Estonia) and continues to Helsinki by ferry, trying to avoid detection at the airport. Unlucky for her, Finland has a passenger targeting
