{"id":216516,"date":"2025-06-26T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/216516\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:14:09","slug":"operation-pangea-illegal-tablets-worth-1-1m-seized-in-ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/216516\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Pangea: Illegal tablets worth \u00a31.1m seized in NI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Counterfeit and illicit medicines, with a street value of about \u00a31.1m, have been seized during a major operation targeting criminal gangs.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The drugs, which were destined for Northern Ireland, were recovered over a five month period from December 2024 to May 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More than 846,000 tablets were seized including diazepam which is used to treat anxiety, pregabalin which is used to medicate epilepsy and anxiety, steroids, botox and weight loss products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The major crackdown is part of Operation Pangea, an international initiative led by Interpol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Counterfeit and illicit medicines, with a street value of about \u00a31.1m, have been seized during a major operation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-216516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114751030232171800","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}