Zbigniew Ziobro announced the news via social media.
The justice minister said on the X platform that "prosecutors together with officers from the Police Central Bureau of Investigation (CBŚP) have successfully broken up an international gang of sports hooligans, who dealt in drugs on a mass scale."
Ziobro added that a court had ordered the temporary detention of seven suspects, while several others had been put under police supervision. They face up to 12 years in prison, Polish state news agency PAP reported.
The operation was carried out in southern Poland, mainly in the city of Kraków, and in the western Wielkopolskie region, police said on Friday.
Law enforcement officials raided more than 20 addresses, detained 12 people and froze real estate assets worth over PLN 10 million (EUR 2.3 million), the PAP news agency reported.
The gang was made up of "sports hooligans," who smuggled marijuana and cocaine for trade from Spain and the Netherlands to Poland, according to officials.
The latest raids were part of a wider investigation, in which prosecutors have detained 105 suspects, 81 of whom have been put under arrest, on charges including drug crimes and money laundering, the PAP news agency reported.
(pm/gs)
Source: PAP, CBŚP