Intensive investigations in Malta and abroad, by Malta Customs, Malta Police, German Customs and Europol, led to the identification of a Maltese person who was conspiring to traffic drugs into Malta.

His arrest followed an intensive international investigation that had followed a find of 2.2 kilograms of high grade heroin in Germany. German Customs personnel had stopped three Lithuanians in a vehicle where drugs were found. The Lithuanian men had named a Maltese man and his movements across Europe were traced and tracked, including his money transfers.

Following these revelations the Maltese man was arrested and charged with conspiring in drug trafficking.