During the secret RAID to the FBI was arrested 16 employees of the U.S. postal service, working in Atlanta. They helped drug dealers to deliver illegal drugs through the mail, writes the New York Post.
Postman accused of receiving bribes in exchange for granting special addresses to drug dealers, which they could use to deliver packages. Then employees of the postal service intercepted the package and delivered to their intermediaries. However, this time the dealers were police officers and the drugs are fake.
«The charges contained in this case are very disturbing, to say the least,» says FBI agent David George. Leval. «The FBI makes it clear that corruption remains a priority area of our criminal program, and therefore we have allocated significant resources to the identification, investigation and submission to court of those who engage in such Affairs.»
Authorities say some of the postal employees recruited other employees. They received additional pay for the drugs that were delivered recruited by their recruits.
The charges were filed 16 postal workers aged 25 to 63 years.
