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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jennifer Rankin in Brussels

Gangs using Airbnb-type rentals as drug stash houses, top Belgian official says

Stack of wrapped cocaine
Cocaine weighing approximately 200kg at the federal police East Flanders station in Dendermonde in June 2021. Photograph: Nicolas Maeterlinck/Belga/AFP/Getty Images

Airbnb-type short-term rentals are being used as stash houses by criminal gangs for money, drugs, weapons and people, Belgium’s lead official in charge of countering drugs has said.

The booming e-commerce sector is helping “enormously” to facilitate organised crime, Belgium’s national drug commissioner, Ine Van Wymersch, said.

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