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…
The work of the Joint Airport Interdiction Task Forces (JAITF) supported by the AIRCOP project at different airports in West Africa provide an important insight into the fluidity of international drug trafficking networks. Three seizures at Praia airport confirm the continuing importance of Cape Verde as a springboard for air couriers travelling to Europe. On…
Almost 70% of the population of Guinea Bissau live below the poverty line and it is recognised as one of the least developed countries in the world. Once dubbed as ‘Africa’s first narco-state’, Guinea Bissau has experienced high levels of organised crime and corruption. Following a military coup in 2012, the EU cut ties with…
Spanish authorities seized more than three tons of cocaine and broke up an international drug trafficking ring in Madrid. According to the Spanish police, the organisation was composed by a group of Serbian ex-soldiers that brough cocaine from Latin America to Europe. Sixty-nine people were arrested. The Austrian police arrested a father and a son…
Two Ghanaians were accused by the Ghanaian authorities of allegedly aiding a Bolivian drug ring to smuggle approximately 5,800 kg of cocaine from Bolivia to Burkina Faso. The two accused are a businessman with connections in Latin America and an ex-officer of the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA). According to the prosecution,…
It is reported that Mali’s foreign minister Abdoulaye Diop asked the UN Security Council to support the government in the fight against drug traffickers and roll out an emergency aid package following the signing of a peace deal. At a meeting in Bamako the government an armed groups signed an accord to end the violence…
The increasing cooperation between Peru and Bolivia in the fight against drug trafficking led to the destruction of at least 50 clandestine airstrips in Peru and to the seizure of more than a dozen small planes in the Bolivian Amazon. In a joint operation of the US and the Costa Rican coast guards, police forces…
Two Nigerian men were arrested at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu, Eastern Nigeria, and accused of drug trafficking and unlawful importation of 9.975 kg of heroin. The two drug traffickers were sentenced to 40 and 15 years of prison. The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Ahmadu Giade, declared that this…
