The police searched out a drugs trafficking gang and recovered two consignments of amphetamine worth about 1.5 million euros from northern and eastern parts of the country.

The law enforcers also arrested four alleged traffickers belonging to the 10-member gang, the national broadcaster Yle quoted the police as saying.

All the suspects involved in the illegal trade are Finnish men and their average age is more than 30 years, a National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) investigator, Jukka Nurmenniemi, told the Yle, adding that they hail from Oulu in northern Finland, eastern Finland, and northern Karelia.

The police said most of the racketeers have past records of drugs trafficking.

The law enforcers recovered two consignments of drugs from the gang containing liquid and distilled amphetamine that would have yielded roughly 35 kilograms of the narcotic substance, said the Yle report.

The first consignment was seized from the Oulu area in October 2016. The police arrested three people in June 2017 in northern Karelia in this connection.

The police have completed the preliminary investigations and are now ready to frame charges in the case.

Although the police had initially arrested six of the 10 gang members, two of them were released following the investigations.