After the recent escape of Sinaloa cartel boss, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, from a maximum security prison located on the outskirts of Mexico City, the Mexican drug trafficking structure is likely to reconfigure. Mainly known for trafficking drugs from Mexico to the US, Guzman and the Sinaloa cartel have wide connections reaching Central and South America,…
Colombian police have seized approximately 2.3 tonnes of marijuana in the village of Dabehia, Antioquia department. According to the authorities, the drugs allegedly belonged to the paramilitary group of the Urabeños. The Gambia hosted the first international conference on drug dubbed, “Moscow-Africa anti-drug dilogue”. The conference aimed to enhance strategies to tackle drug trafficking in…
Cuatro argentinos fueran condenados a penas de entre dos y doce años de prisión, por estar presuntamente involucrados en un caso de narcotráfico. En 2013, los cuatro fueron arrestados mientras intentaban enviar 120 kilos de cocaína a Europa en un buque de bandera liberiana. Las fuerzas de seguridad de Honduras interceptaron una embarcación de bandera…
A new police unit was established in the Indian city of Ramanathapuram, Tamilnadu province, to prevent and fight drug trafficking between India and Sri Lanka. A Serbian court sentenced Darko Saric, a Balkan drug lord, to 20 years in prison for allegedly smuggling cocaine from Colombia, Argentina and Uruguay through Balkan countries to Western Europe.…
Police and customs authorities in Bangladesh declared that a Bangladeshi-born British citizen conspired to smuggle 600 kg of liquid cocaine from Uruguay in a shipment of 107 blue plastic barrels marked as Bolivian sunflower oil. The barrels were allegedly to be shipped through Bangladesh to a third yet-to be-named country. Customs authorities seized the consignment…
On 22 June, acting on a tip-off from local sources, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of India arrested Edwin Enrique, a Colombian national, for allegedly smuggling pure cocaine into the country. Enrique arrived in Chennai, a city located on the Bengali coast, on a tourist visa. The Colombian claimed he was a boxer invited by the…
The Nigeria Guardian has reported that a 32 year man died at Abuja airport on 5 July in what appears to have been leakage from an ingested cocaine pellet. The man was booked on the Ethiopian Airline flight to China via Addis Ababa when he collapsed in the departure hall. The Port Health officials who attended to…
A consignment of 277 kg of herbal cannabis destined for the UK was found in the Aviance air cargo village at Accra airport in late June. A few days later the team at Lome intercepted a courier coming in from N’djamena, Chad en route to the US with 8 kg of khat. In each case…
En el departamento de Chocó, la Policía colombiana incautó un cargamento de tres toneladas de clorhidrato de cocaína que iba a ser despachada por la banda narcotraficante Clan Úsuga hacia Estados Unidos pasando por México. Dos miembros de la banda que se encargaban de procesar cocaína fueron detenidos. Durante un plan de trabajo en los…
Alhaji Sule Lamido, former Governor of Jigawa State in Nigeria, was arrested in Abuja for alleged money laundering. In November 2014, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arrested the two sons of the governor, over alleged misappropriation of billions of naira belonging to the Jigawa State Government. South Africa customs officials discovered more than…
