Today, the police found ‘large amounts of goods, in particular herbs, mixed with hard drugs’ in a business building at the Midi Center on Parallelweg in Beverwijk. Many agents and customs officers, among others, were seen all day and the area was cordoned off. It is certainly the third time in three years that the police have encountered illegal trade at one of the companies at the Midi Center.
The surveillance of the site by armed officers was certainly not for nothing, the police report now that the raid and seizure is over. “Due to the expected value or the criminal interest of these goods, the property was guarded during the investigation by employees of the North Holland police security unit,” according to the press release.
It’s been a mess on that site of the industrial estate for a while. More than two years ago, a similar campaign in the same Midi Center also yielded a big catch. Then the police took thousands of counterfeit items confiscation, including phone earphones and batteries.
And half a year before that 250 people from the police, the Public Prosecution Service, the FIOD and the Tax and Customs Administration examined the site during a major raid. They found piles of cash, including behind a suspended ceiling.
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Drug discovery Beverwijk
Drug discovery Beverwijk
Drug discovery Beverwijk
Drug discovery Beverwijk
Drug discovery Beverwijk
Drug discovery Beverwijk
After those two raids the municipality of Beverwijk took measures: entrepreneurs who are established or plan to establish themselves there, had to have an operating license from February last year. This would offer the local government the opportunity to conduct an investigation into the integrity of entrepreneurs, the so-called Bibob test.
Despite, or perhaps thanks to the measures, it was hit again today. On Monday evening, the police received a tip ‘that narcotics may have been stored in the building’.
So that was right. The police found ‘goods that had been mixed or had been mixed with hard drugs’. Everything will be destroyed and the investigation will continue, the service said.