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Belgium police raid '1.3bn-euro' Chimay drug pills factory'
Source: BBC
23 August 2013 Last updated at 16:23 GMT
Belgium police raid '1.3bn-euro' Chimay drug pills factory'
Police in Belgium have seized ecstasy pills and chemicals used to make drugs, worth an estimated street value of 1.3bn euros (£1.1bn; $1.7bn).
Nine men and two women, all aged 30 to 50, were arrested on Thursday and charged with possessing, manufacturing and trafficking drugs.
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The biggest laboratory was said to have been found at a farm warehouse in a wooded area near Chimay in southern Belgium.
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"We found a total of 600kg (1,300lb) of chemical products and materials. You can make 1.5 million pills with 25kg. Imagine what they could make with 600kg!" said Wenke Roggen, a spokeswoman for Belgium's federal prosecutor's office.
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Belgium police raid '1.3bn-euro' Chimay drug pills factory'
Police in Belgium have seized ecstasy pills and chemicals used to make drugs, worth an estimated street value of 1.3bn euros (£1.1bn; $1.7bn).
Nine men and two women, all aged 30 to 50, were arrested on Thursday and charged with possessing, manufacturing and trafficking drugs.
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The biggest laboratory was said to have been found at a farm warehouse in a wooded area near Chimay in southern Belgium.
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"We found a total of 600kg (1,300lb) of chemical products and materials. You can make 1.5 million pills with 25kg. Imagine what they could make with 600kg!" said Wenke Roggen, a spokeswoman for Belgium's federal prosecutor's office.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23817379