Drug Trade
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:37
Saudi Arabian police have arrested six people and seized illegal drugs worth 1 billion riyals ($267 million, Dh981 million) that were being smuggled into the country from neighbouring Bahrain, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 00:00
Note that this cocaine haul was intercepted in Colombia, not Holland. It had not undergone the value transformation that smuggling it produces.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 07:44
Near the Afghan border, State National Security Committee (GKNB) personnel and border troops recently captured a Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) man accused of smuggling Afghan heroin and hashish, Avesta.tj reported April 10.
Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 13:01
The training aimed to improve the ability of law enforcement units in Georgia to combat the trafficking of illicit drugs and develop cases against drug trafficking organizations by creating this canine task force team. Upon returning to Georgia, the canines and their handlers will begin working at the Tbilisi International Airport.
Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 00:00
Dos dias tardaron los uniformados para sacar toda la droga, que se encontraba camuflada entre pulpa de pina dentro de un contenedor que era preparado para su cargue a un barco con destino a Europa.
Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 07:17
The Drug Enforcement Agency on Tuesday received support from the U.S. government in cash and equipment worth US$14,000.00, just a day after the government of Liberia won a drug trafficking case brought by the state against a Ugandan Woman, Shirat Nawadda.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 07:13
Molaei said the prisoners were transferred under the agreement signed between Iran and Azerbaijan on the exchange of prisoners.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 07:07
Police dog found 109.3 kg of marijuana and 3.85 kg of hashish, the press service of the Almaty region's police department reported.
Friday, April 4, 2014 - 14:33
This week the Associated Press uncovered that USAID tried to "trigger a Cuban Spring" through a secretly-established social media platform, the DEA said Mexican cartels were setting up shop in Colorado and Washington to cash in on black market marijuana, and the United States stopped sharing radar intelligence with Honduras. Here's a roundup of these stories and other highlights from around the region over the past week.
Friday, April 4, 2014 - 11:25
It was stressed that, 246 operations were conducted in collaboration with the Afghan partners, more than 15 tons of drugs were seized from the illicit trafficking.