Peru’s Congress approved the resumption of the aerial interdiction practice, which would allow police forces to shoot down flights suspected of transporting cocaine and other illicit drugs in Peruvian air space. According to President Ollanta Humala, this law would act as a deterrent in the fight against drug trafficking. Since January 2015, more than 36…
The report of the Global Financial Integrity group ranked Nigeria as one of the 10 largest countries for illicit financial flows in the world. Following this data, representatives of Nigerian Apex Bank allegedly declared that they would heavily sanction money deposit Banks that aid individuals to launder money. The Nigerian National Drug Law Enforcement Agency…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ross Ulbricht, the mercurial founder of ‘Silk Road’, what was once the biggest internet trading site for illicit drugs was sentenced to life imprisonment last week. The 31 year old Texan physics graduate rose to notoriety on the back of a site on the hidden “dark web” that became a trading mart for drugs and…
