ItalianMafiaBrussels (IMB) confirmed to be busted

Someone posted a warning a few days ago and the news articles are coming out.

http://www.expatica.com/be/news/Flanders-Police-smash-international-drugs-ring_710911.html

The investigation had apparently been going on since Feb 2014.

The police and the judicial authorities have broken up a drugs ring that sold the drugs MDMA a XTC via the so-called "dark web".

They send their wares in parcels made to look as though they were from legitimate companies to customers in the United States.

An investigation was launched in February 2014 after a number of companies received parcels that had been returned from the United States, parcels they had in fact never sent.

A company from the East Flemish town of Sint-Niklaas was first to report to the police that it had received an undeliverable parcel that had been sent back from the United States.

However, the company had never sent the parcel in the first place and it contained crystals that turned out to be the drug MDMA. MDMA can also be used to make XTC. 1kg of MDMA is enough to make 10,000 XTC pills.

It later emerged that companies in Bruges (West Flanders), Antwerp and Brussels were in the same boat. The gang used the names of companies that sold products that has a similar physical appearance to their drugs. "Products such as bath salts" a spokesman for the Judicial Authorities told VRT News.

Using the nickname Italian Mafia Brussels, the gang sold drugs on various "market places" on the dark web. Payment was made in the digital currency the bitcoin. The gang sent its customers their drugs from Belgium and several other countries including France and Germany.

A total of six suspects, most of whom from the Bruges area, have been detained in Belgium. Suspects have also been detained in Romania and the United States.

Edit: another article: http://nsnbc.me/2016/06/25/belgian-police-crack-up-international-internet-drug-ring/


Comments


[15 Points] None:

MDMA can be used to make XTC as well

Do you guys believe they do this on purpose or they're really this clueless?


[2 Points] DarkKnight_1111:

First of all "The Bitcoin"? Wtf is that shit. Also, why are these vendors using companys for return addresses, its VERY common with these DNM vendors and I have never understood why. There HAS to be a better way.


[1 Points] MDMangel:

Ecstasy is widely known and used as a “party drug”. Pure MDMA can be relatively harmless in comparison to many other synthetic drugs. However, it is more often than not cut with other substances like amphetamine, LSD, mescaline.One of the serious risks associated with the drug, purchased on the black market is that it often is being laced with amphetamine, cocaine or heroin, making the user physically and psychologically dependent on the high without necessarily recognizing the effects of this dependency has opioid or cocaine dependency.CH/L – nsnbc 25.06.201

Where are these assholes getting this info?!?! They must have never heard about this place. Any one of us could tell them about being named and shamed. Test-kits exist and we use them. Energy Control exist and we know them! The substances bought around the DM's are purer than anything found on the streets. Sellers are held accountable. They want to bring down anything that proves the war on drugs is a complete fucking failure and that free markets work without them holding our hands (and wallets).


[3 Points] o0i9-41oik34re9i8:

What the fuck is going on with the EU scene at the moment? Vendors getting popped right and left, EU vendors are refusing to send to the US and investigations span over 2 full years.....would not strike me as odd if we see more busts happening with that time of determination.


[3 Points] budsmokersonly710:

sad day, legendary vendor


[2 Points] teddybearortittybar:

It would be sweet to work in the mailroom of one of the companies used as the return address.


[2 Points] None:

until more is relaeased I doubt that's the whole team... IMB is a fucking OG though, RIP


[1 Points] UDGHT:

!remindme 1week


[1 Points] elfer90:

sint-niklaas


[1 Points] sound_effect1999:

You'd still probably either be using the office address for the apartments or a resident's address. If you just put the building itself as the return address to me that would be more of a red flag. There's really no perfect solution for the return address, if there was someone would have figured it out by now. We have a pretty good system down right now, very few packs overall don't make it to their destination if they are domestic. International is a different story, I've never ordered international, it sounds like too big of a headache to save a little money for me personally.