Prague court sentences eight in cocaine smuggling case

A Prague municipal court has sentenced eight people over the smuggling of 32 kilograms of cocaine from Germany into the Czech Republic.

The group, made up of seven foreign nationals and one Czech citizen, received prison terms ranging from four to eight years, while some defendants were given suspended sentences. Five have appealed.

The organised gang transported the drug between August 2024 and February 2025 on regular bus routes between Berlin and Prague.

The suspects included Ukrainians, Russians, a Kazakh national and one Czech. The case was uncovered in February 2025 by the National Drug Headquarters working with German police.