In the ongoing drug war, a police officer is said to have passed on secret information to dealers for money. The officer is apparently deeply involved in criminal circles. He is even alleged to have maintained contacts with Islamists.
Early on Monday morning, an explosive device detonated in front of an apartment block in Düsseldorf’s Medienhafen harbour (photo). The Cologne investigation team Sattla (Arabic name for narcotics) and the public prosecutor’s office are currently investigating connections to the smouldering drug war between a Dutch drug network and the Cologne underworld.
In recent weeks, there have been one explosive attack after another: including the current case, ten homemade explosive devices have detonated in front of the houses and flats of drug gangs on the Rhine since June 25.
‘The modus operandi seems similar, but nothing more can be said yet,’ senior public prosecutor Ulrich Bremer told FOCUS online.
The clashes were triggered by the theft of 350 kilograms of cannabis from a warehouse in Hürth on June 25. Since then, the drugs, worth 1.5 million euros, have been missing. A drug gang from Kalk/Mülheim is also involved in the conflict with the so-called Dutch Mocro Mafia (Dutch slang term for Moroccans). Several suspects are already in custody. The drug dealer Aymen G. from Kalk, who is now in custody, is also alleged to have bribed a police inspector. The probationary officer Mohamed L. (name changed), 25, is said to have repeatedly searched the police data systems for all criminal information about the dealer, according to the investigators’ enquiries. This emerges from the analysis of seized mobile phone chats of the German-Moroccan patrolman.
According to information from FOCUS online, the inspector demanded 50 euros per person for further information taken from the police computer. That was a lot of money, but it was also a lot of information, Mohamed L. explained to the German-Algerian dealer. When Aymen G. refused to pay, the police commissioner threatened him with trouble.
The chat partners got to know each other during joint visits to a mosque. The police officer Mohamed L. is considered a devout Muslim. The police inspector is suspected of having gained deep insights into the drug war through his contact in the Cologne drug milieu.
According to the public prosecutor’s office, Mohamed L. is also alleged to have obtained information on the investigation status of two other members of the Cologne drug gang. The prosecutors came to this conclusion when they checked the police data platforms. Every enquiry made by a police officer is documented there.
This confirmed the suspicion that Mohamed L. had leaked secrets in favour of a Cologne drug gang – at the time of the attacks in Cologne, Engelskirchen, Duisburg and Düsseldorf.
During the search in his flat on July 6, the prospective officer made some brief statements. L. surmised that he had apparently been taken advantage of by the drug dealer. His defence lawyer Christoph Arnold did not want to comment on the allegations when asked.
The investigations against the inspector were triggered by tapped phone calls. The drug dealer Aymen G. had bragged about his contact with a police officer. The dealer claims to have recorded a video with the latter in which he listed all the backgrounds and people involved in the drug war.
The public prosecutor’s office then initiated proceedings for obstruction of justice in office because the police commissioner had not passed on this information from the video to the responsible investigators. Although the ominous clip has not yet been found, the investigation is still ongoing. The compromising bribery chats with the drug dealer from Kalk were then found on the confiscated mobile phones.
According to information from FOCUS online, the investigation of the police officer’s two confiscated mobile phones revealed another incredible suspicion: the accused officer apparently had contacts in the Islamist scene.
Mohamed L. is said to have used the police search and case processing platform Viva on behalf of his brother, who has come to the attention of the state security services for money laundering and terror financing. Presumably, according to the allegation, the inspector wanted to check the suspicious situation against his brother in order to warn him.
Ermittlungen gegen Polizisten im Mocro-Drogenkrieg befeuern ungeheuren Verdacht – FOCUS online