A Europe-wide report on the multi-billion euro illicit drugs market highlights the involvement of Irish gangs on a global scale but also the involvement of international criminal gangs in the drugs trade in Ireland.
According to the EU Drug Markets Report 2016, ethnic Vietnamese crime gangs have been active in Ireland for some time and are also involved in other forms of crime such as human trafficking.
These gangs run their own plantations, sell technical expertise in setting-up such plantations to other gangs, according to the report.
Lithuanian crime gangs are also co-operating with Irish gangs to traffic methamphetamine here.
Compiled by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction and Europol, the report found that Irish criminal gangs have connections with drug cartels in South and Central America which facilitate the direct importation of cocaine into Ireland.
Source: RTE News, 05/04/16
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