JPRS ID: 8665 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 39/79)
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_ 18 September 1979 -
- WORLDWIDE REPORT
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NARCOTICS~AND DANGEROUS DRUGS ~
(FOUO 39/79)
CONTENTS PAGE
- ASIA
BRUNEI
Narcotics Seizure, Arrest Reported
(BORNEO BULLETIN, 7 Jul 79) 1
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Largest Heroin Seizure
Opium User Jailed
, Drug Pushers Giv~n Five-Year Terms
~ (WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY, 24 Aug 79) 3 :
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Opium Seized in Tatkon
_ (TEIE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY, 21 Aug 79) 4 _
Drug Pushers Caught
(THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY, 23 Aug 79) 5
Briefs
Five Years for Opium Smoker 6
Three Held for Drug Offense 6
~ Stiff Goal Term for Drug Offense 6
HUNG KONG
Rising Price of Heroin Li~?ked To Increase in Crime
(Tommy Lewis; SOiITH CHIN~ MORNING POST,
14 Aug 79) 7 -
Pressure To Relax Marihuana La~as Ignored
(Humphrey Hawksley; SOUTH CIiINA MORNING POST,
15 Aug 79)... ..........o 8
- China Accused of Frameup
- (SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 10 Aug 79) 9
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~ Police Seek Chiu Chow~ Man in Druga Probe
(SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 19 Jul 79)...........0 11 -
- Estimated 60 Pounds of Heroin Seized at Airport
' (Tommy Lewis; SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, -
_ 29 Aug 79) 12 -
- Lette~: to Narcotics Commissioner Challenges Official
Statistics on Addicts -
- (SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, 16 Aug 79)............ 13 -
Number of Addicts Seeking Treatment on ~he Rise
, (SOU'I'H CEiINA MORNING POST, 15, 18 Aug 79)......... 14
� Addicts Rush for Methadone =
~ao Irhre Clinics Added
Briefs
One Defendant Set Free 16
" Addict Gets Three Years 16
, Drug Defendant Changes Mind 16
INDIA
Smugglers' Syndica~e Discovered ~
(THE STATESMAN, 21 Aug 79) 18
Briefs
Drug Ring Leader Arrested 19
Opium Peddlers Held 19 f
JAPAN
Farmers Watching Out for Hemp Stealers
(ASAHI EVENI:NG NEWS, 9 Jul 79) 20
- MALAYSIA
Drug Seizures, Arrests, Sentences in Sabah, 3arawak
(Various sources, various dates) 22
- Sabah Drug Seizures
Rehabilitation Centers Planned
Addict Ordered to Hospital
Heroin Arrest
Soldier Held
Heroin Sentence
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~ Narcotics Arrests, Trials, Sentences Reported
(Various sources, various dates) 25
- Heroin Sentence
Tt?ree Years for Possession
Rearrested After Acquittal
Defendant Denies Ownership
First Female Traffickers
Trafficker Escapes Death Penalty
Life Sentence for Trafficking
Heroin Trial
PAKISTAN.
B.rief s
"I Opium, Charas Seizure 29 _
I PHILIPPINES
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New Decree Strengthens Laws Against Drugs
~ (Editorial; PHILIPPINES DAILY EXPRESS,
24 Aug 79)....~ 30
� Isolated Plantation Raided, Harvest Seized
(BiTLLETIN TODAY, 28 Aug 79) .............o......... 31
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Marihuana Seizure in Three Raids 32
- Hashish Seizure in Olongapo 32
Caloocan Drug ~rive 32
SINCAPORE ~
Narcotics Arrests, Sentences Reported -
(STRAITS TIMES, 7 Jul 79) 33 -
Ser.tenced for Possession
Opium Arrest
CANADA ~
Bulk of Illicit Drug ise Reported Shifting Away From
B.C.
(Editorial, Mike Bryan; THE VANCOUVER SUI~T,
2 Aug 79) .........................o.....o......... 34
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Federal Government 'Interested' in B.C. Heroin Aid �
Program -
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(THE VANCOiTVER SiJN, 26 Jun 79)
- Briefs
Morphine Import Charge 37 _
Drug Offenses on Decline 3~
LATIN AMERICA _
BOLIVIA -
Cocaine Seizures Increase During First Half of Xear
(PRESENEIA, 16 Aug 79) ........................o.... 38
Briefs
- Cocaine Seized During 1979 40
Drug Traffickers Escape 40
y BRAZIL
Health Ministry Task Force To Censor Drug-Related ~
Material
(JORNAL DO BRASIL, 3 Aug 79) 41
DPF Report Shows Increased Drug Use Among Youth, in
Interior
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(Various sources, 1 Aug 79)
- Drug Users Becoming Younger
Settlements in Interior A~fected
Briefs ~
Drug Control Discussion 44
. Cocaine Dealers Arrested 44
Traffickers Sentenced 44
Rio de Janeiro Addicts 45
MEXICO _
Marihuana Traffickers Suspected in Slaying Arrested -
~ (EL MANANA, 10 Aug 79) 46
Five M~rihu:3na Traffickers Captured -
(EXGELSIOR, 31 3u1 79) 49
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Deserters Arrested as Traffickers 5~
~ Marihuana Plantations Destroyed 51
Tijuana Traffickers, Drugs Seized 51
� Trafficking Ring Seized 52
_ PANAMA
- Briefs
- Drug Traffickers Arrested 53
VENE7UELA
~o Cocaine Traffick~rs Arrested in Caracas
~ (EL UNIVERSAL, 5 Aug 79) 54
- I LSD, Cocaine SE~ `.zed by Police
~ (EL NACIONAL, 3 Aug 79) 55
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; ' Briefs
' Mandrax T~af.ficker Arrested 57
NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
IRI:N -
, Rise in Opium Production, Government Countermeasures
(DER SPIEGEL, 13 Aug 79) 58
WEST EUROPE
AUSTRIA
Briefs
, Hemp Cul~ivation 61
CYPRUS
Narcotics Smuggling Reportedly Led by International
' Ying -
(ELEVTHERI KYPROS, 24 Aug 79) 62
TiJRKEY
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(CUI~iURIYET, 19 Aug 79).........~~ 63 ~
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_ Poppy Growers Disgruntled About Prices
- (AYDINLIK, 21 Aug 79)........ ~
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UNITED KINGDOM
Cannabis Haul Called `Tip o� Iceberg'
(THE DAILY TELEGRAP~i, 14 Aug 79) 66
Briefs
Heroin Seizure 68
Cannabis Find in Banana 68
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N~R(:OTICS SECZUI~, ARREST REPORTED
Largest Heroin Seizure
Kuala E3elait BORNEO BULLETIN in English 7 Jul 79 p 24
[Tc~xt ]
B~ANDAR SERI BE- several pushers and are anisations, i;~cluding In-
GAWAN. - Police have just waiting to catch terpol and the United
' seized a two pound pac- them in the act before Nations.
ket of he:oin worth more we pounce, Early last month
thar. $1 million in by far "Then we can close Pengiran Jaya said in-
the biggest drugs haul in the net on the big fis}i," creasing amounts of her-
the history of Brunei. said Pengiran Jaya. oin had been gettinR in-
They believe a net- The Commissioner ~last to Brunei, with eight
work brought it into the week returned from Kua- people being caught so
~ state from Bangkok via la Lumpur where he at- far~ this yeaz - five of
~ Port K9ang. tended a conference or- them in May,
' "It might even be ganised to get countries The Commissioner said
; worth inore than 1 mil- in the re ion to co-o r-
$ S~ Pe policc thought .heroin was
lion because heroin is in ate in their fight against being smuggled into the
short supply now, witli the drug mei~ace. state on schediiled flights
, the Golden Triangle dry- With him as another and thc smugglers were
ing up," the Commis- obsecver s?t the Common- resortinR to increasingly
sioner of Police, Pengi� wealth WorkinR Group ingenious ways of smug-
ran Jaya bin Pengiran in the Asian and Pacific gting their wares.
Haji Rajid, said. Region on Illicit Drugs, He said hr thought
The consignment `f � was the Deputy Controll- more dru.gs were being
- heroin was seized in the er qf Customs, Awang found because of the for-
centre o{ Bandar Seri Omar bin Haji Serudin. mation of a narcotics
- Begawan early ]ast "Ways were discussed squad.
: month, to standardise methods In Singapore, the Cen-
It is understood a man and co-operate to take tral Narcotics Bureau
surrendered the packet action against the drug said it was gei- _
when he realised he was problem," Pengiran Jaya ting increasingly dif
being kept under police said. � _ ficult to smuggle heroin
survei~llance. "It was a high level out of the Golden Trian-
Recently the police meetinR and several re- gle of $urma, Thailand
; expressed concern at the commendations were and Laos, because of the
increasing amounts of made," he added. political situation in In-
heroin being smuggled Ten Gcmmonwealth dochina. .
into the state and said countries in the reqion Because of this, the
they were stepping up sent delegates and there bureau said, the street
their vigilance. were 12 observers from price of heroin has gone
"We have identified other countries and org- up considerably.
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Opium User Jailed
K~iala I3elait BOR'VEO BULLETIN in English 7 Jul 79 p 4
[Text~
_ BANDAR SERI BE- thc accused and found
GAWAN. - A man two small plastic bottles
who claimed he took containing a black subs-
opium to ease the pa.in tance. ~
of an illness was aentenc- A chemist later four?d
ed to three months' im- this to bc prcpared '
~ prisonment last Saturday. ' opiunl.,
Ghua Chong Seng, 69, Chua pleaded yuilty to
was chazg~d �with hav- the charge and told ma-
ing prepared opium in gistrate Encik Syed Ah-
_ his possession at a house mad Idid he took the
at Kampong Saltan La- drug because it lesscned
ma on May 23. the pain he suffered.
The court heard police He promised the court
- raided the house follow� he will try to stop taking
ing a tip-off. it in future.
They searched'the pre� Encik Syed Ahmad
mises but faiied to find Idid said the charRe was
anything. too serious for a fine to
- T'hen they searched be imposed.
CSc): 5300
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- nRUG PUSh.ERS GIVEN FIt~E-YEAR T~RMS
Rangoon WUltx7_NG PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 24 Aug 79 p 1 BK
[Text]
RANGOON, 23 Aug-U Nam I~la Shwe (35) of Seinmyaing
_ Si?i alias Kin Mein (q.3) of 2q.th Ward, Mayangon Township,
Street, Rangoon, was sentenced Rangoon, to five years' imprison-
five yea:s' imprisonment on con- ment on conviction under Section
. viction of an offence under 6(l~) (possession) o� the Narcotic _
Section 6(b) (possession) of Drug3 Law. Abdul Munna was
the Narcotic Drugs Law by aent up for trial as he was -
Latha To~nship Court No 4/6 found to be in possession of -
~ chaired by Daw Aye Aye Than three packets of marijuana
today, with a street value of K i each.
The case was that a hypode'r- The Latha 1
ownship Court ~
mic syringe and a needle wi�h No 315, chaired by U Hla Pe,
heroin traces were peized from U also sentenced Maung Sein alias
Nar.~ Sin by members of a crime Hoke Sein (3i) of No 20, Lower
prevention squad of Rangoon Street, Latha Township, to five
l)ivision People's Police Force years' imprisonment on convio-
- at the corner of Zznd Street and tion under Section' 6(b) (posses-
Nlaha Bandoola Street in Latha sion) of the Narcotic Drugs Law.
Township. A crime prevention squad of '
Rangoon Division People's
. ather CaSeS Police Force seized a packet of.
Similarly, the court today sen- neroin with a street value. of
tenced one AbdullVIunna alias K~oo from iVIaung Sein.--(30�) ~
CSO: 5300
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BURMA
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OPIUM SEIZ~D IN TATKON
- Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAIL1 in Fnglish 21 Aug 79 p 4
- [ Text ] �~tppon, ~o Aug-Police per-
, sonnel from Meiktita, P.yawb~ve,
= Yamdhin and Tat~on `rownshipa
lpd; liy Ass~isGant . Divisional P~eo-
plo's Police Force Comma~�et
U, Ok~ 1Viaung h~yc lsun~ed#ho
Aq4~: Not. Arug ..Abu~e C,ontml
PrWec~..in '~atl~on~Torvaehip !ipoe
xb: .Atsgwt. ~ , ~ .
_ ~~pda~' t~h:: Pro,j~ct, a taaut of
po~, perROnuel s~ized aute~, vi~
= a~;_~~: tiqls of.opium kogtih,a
Btbslac milk Powdtr tin, 47~ ~d. a
~ b~If ti~ls of opium kept in-~t~g~tes
ju: aod s~vea tic~ls of heavy
c~iWW ,~olu~ion frQm #he bA.use. af
oato.,I~':.K~ l~u,.a.ahop.4~[
a#. L~?~ov. ~o Min Xs~wB
Ward, Tat~loon, at g.3o pm an i6
Auguet. � -
Polioo.ure :L~cing acxion aga~a~
Daw . Khin Aiu . under S~tiaa
i o ~(b) (poaaesaion) of tho
Nazcotic Drugs Law.
'~'he team also seized m~teriai;s
uqid;~1~.E~8 ~
from the house and~ gold~lh
ahop of U Tua Kyi,at M7awaddy
~ Ward in Tatkon on i~ August. ~
- Actios is being ta~an s~iast
U~ ~ S~gi..-NAB _
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I)1:UC I'USIiERS CAUGEI7' `
� !;rin~c~on 'f1iE WOIZKINC PEOPI.E' S DAILI' in English 23 Aug 79 p 4 -
~ ~~`~Y R~~ncoo~, za Aug-A crimc
preLention squad of the Ran,oon
_ Division Pcoplc's Police rorce .
seized a packct of opium resiclue
worth K 5o from onc 'rin Oo
(3~) of ~To 30, j:}tli Street at the -
No 8 bus ~top at the corner of
i7th`'and :l~I.iha Bandoola Strects
this aEternoon.
Tin Oo ~vas handed over to
Latha Police Station. 1'he police
arc; taking action against him
under 'Scction 6 (b) (possession)
;~nd Section i4(d) . (failuru to -
register for ~ "treatment) ~ of the
Narcotic Drugs Law.--{H) -
~ Heroin seized
A packet of heroin with a
street value of Ii zs was seized
from a young man at thc corner
of a~th and Anawrahta Streets
at about 8 pm on zi August by
a crime prevention squad uE the
Rangoon Division PPF.
The young man was identified
as Nyi Nyi Kyaw (az) of No g8,
- Z~th Street, Rangoon.
Police are taking action against
him under Sections 6(b) (posses-
sion) and i�(d)(failure to register =
` for treatment) of the Narcotic
Drugs Law.-(3o0) .
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BRIEFS
- FIVE YEARS FOR OPIUM SMOKER--Rangoon, 25 Aug--The Latha Township Court
No (6) chaired by Daw Aye Aye Than with U Soe Maung and U Tin Oo as
_ members today sentenced three persons to five years' imprisonment each on
conviction under Section 6(b) (possession) of the Narcotic Drugs Law.
- The three are Ah Phu (75) of No 103 (first f loor), 21st Street, Latha
Township; Phway Sit Yon (66) of No 144 (first floor), 19th Street; and -
_ Ohn Phwan (68) of No 120, ]t9th Street. Ah Phu, Phway Sit Yon and Ohn -
Phwan were found smoking opium at Ah Phu's house by a police party from
Latha Police Station on the night of 28 November 1976. They were accord-
ingly sent up for trial before the Latha Township Court under Section 6
' (b) (possPSSion) of the Narcotic Drugs Law. [Text] [Rangoon WORKING
PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 25 Aug 79 p 1 BK] -
THREE HELD FOR DRUG OFFENSE--Taunggyi, 20 Aug--Acting on information, a
drug suppression team led by Subinspector of Police U Tun Myint together _
with Ward People's Councillors raided the house of Ko Soe Myint and Ma
Khin Sein in Okpo Street, Yadanathiri Ward here and seized two packets _
of heroin containing five grammes each and valued at K 400 on 19 August.
Ko Kan Nyunt of Circular Road, Bazaar Quarter, who was found at the house
at the time of the raid was arrested together with Ko Soe Myint and Ma
Khin Sein. Police are taking action against them under Sections 6(b) 6
(possession) and 10 (b) (sale) of the Narcotic Drugs Law. [Text]
[Rangoon WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 25 Aug 79 p 4 BKJ
STIFF GOAL TERM FOR DRUG '0~'FENSE--Chaungzon, 16 Aug--The Chaungzon Town-
ship Court yesterday sentenced Maung Sdn Win of Mayanchandan village of
_ Chaungzon Township to ten years' imprisonment under Section 6(b) (posses-
sion) and 10(b) (sale) of the Narcotic Drugs Law. The case was that
Moulmein Township Customs officials searched Aung Win Myaing, a schooner
berthed in Kwanthe creek here on 10 November 1976 and seized 24 packets of
= raw opium weighing about ?0 pounds. Vessel agent Maung San Win was accord-
ingly arrested and sent up for trial before the township court in connection
with the opium seized. [Text] [Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in
Engli.sh 21 Aug 79 p 4 -
CSO: 5300
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- RiSING PRICF. OF HEROIN LINKED TO INCREASE IN CRIME -
- flong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 14 Aug 79 p 1
[Article by Tommy Lewis]
(Text] .
T}ie soaring price that his officers are doing Gonuine heroin is only
of heroin has led to their best to stem the;crime sold to old customers, Supt
wave. P?illiamson added.
an increase in crime, Yesterday 170 policemen He said his officors had -
= especially in north were redeployed from border not come across any case in- -
duties to the urban areas. volving opium in recent
KOWI0017. Thc Assistant Commis- months as this is also in short
POIiCe Statistics show sioner of Police, I~fr Jack supply in Hongkong:
that in the ~rSt siX Johnston, said of. the rede- He said there havc been
ployment: We don t want to isolated seizurZs of small
months of this year the lose ground in the fig ht quantities of heroin but the
number of robberies re- against crime in the urban purity of the drug ranged
_ ported was 2,855 com- areas." from six per ant to 15 per
pared with 2,624 during But he emphasised this � ~ent compared with 25 per
does not indicate any slacken- ~ent a few months ago.
_ the previous six months. ing in border patrols. Supt Williamson said it -
And the number of bur- According to Suporintend- Was estimatod that heroin
' glary cases was 3,039 com- ent Dick Williamson of the w'as worth three to four times
pared with 2,765 in the previ- Narcotics Bureau, the price the value of gold at the begin-
ous six�month period. of a small packet of heroin ning of the year but now ~t
Police believe there are with a purity of 25 per cent Would be safe to say it is a
two main reasons for the up- sold on the street for a40 8~ ~~e timcs more valuable
~ surge in crime: three months ago. than gold.
a Addicts turning to rob- Now a packct with a And he is not surprised
bery to get money for drugs, maximum purity of only 15 that addicts are turning to
tlie strcet price of which has per cent costs S'100. crime for money to buy their
risen by more than 500 per "I have never before seen daily supplies.
cent in the past three months. a shortage on this scaie," He also believes the high
� illegal immigrants Supt Williamson said.' � prices could tempt more peo-
from China, who have not "Heroin is so scarce in p~e into trafficking in drugs.
been able to find jobs, steal- ~Hon kong'tyday, that ~some According to intelligence -
ing to live. arr'~ ~ssmg~-off small reports, drug prices have risen
Kowloon's chief of the pac ts containin . chuqam ~use of poor crops 3n the
CID, Senior Su~erintendent (whitewash powder~ and salts Goldon Triang!e and the sus-
Toby Emmet, said vesterday of morphint as heroin,",.'he tained crackdowns in Thai-
said. ' , land and Hongkong.
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1'Rf SSUR~ TO RELAX r1ARIHUANA LAWS IGNORED .
I-long Kong SUUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 15 Aug 79 p 13
(Article l~y Humphrey Hawksley]
[ Text ] Hongkong's tough laws on the future there mi$ht be very relaxcd laws in the West have
cannabis users and traFfickers strong, perhaps ~rresistable caused a certain amount of
- are here to stay, despite re- pressures to relax the present confusion here.
Ports that Britain might relax prohibition." "They come thinking that
its laws. if this happens the report the drug wiU be toleratod -
Marijuana abuse is pena- predicted that consumption which it is not;' he said.'
lised on the same level here as Would initially be doubled by Previously marijuana was =
highly addictive drugs such as ~p~e taking advantage.of a mostly imported in smal l
herom and morphine. ~w fad. � quantities for use in small,
'~he maximum penalties Plants might be grown in , prrvate groups.
are life imprisonment and a back gardens, or marijuana But recently cannabis _
fine of SS million for pedlars cigarettes might be marketed smug~ling has become more
an~ three years' imprison- through "suthorised sellers." orgarosed in the hands of
ment and a fine oF 510,000 Hov~evec, when the drug i professional traffickers.
forpossession. ~~~,y mystique - after a , A stickof,cannabiscosting
Several states in America few yeats - the level would S45 in Thailand has a street
}iave put cannabis users on an droP "and cvme to be looked ~a~uThese a~e the le we
equal footing with traffic of- on ~n much the same light as ~�p �
fenders and a seven-year tobaccoor alcohol." are trying to crack down on,
- study in Britain has suggested said Supt Williamson.
worldwide pressures mi~ht This view is in direct oppo- Together with other drug
sway t!~e Government mto sition to Hongkong's drug ex- experts SuPt Williamson pre-
relaxing the laws. perts, who put cannabls dicted a rise in traffic acci-
But in Hongkong the Gov- alongs~de heroin rather than dents if the drug was allowed _
ernment's view is a firm a~~ho1� to be smokod unchGCked.
"No" to dccriminalisation. It is heroin, however, Although it is not as popu-
The acting Commissioner which is the mam problem m lar among local Chinese, ob-
for Narcotics, Mr Bowen Hong~cong. servers believe consum~tion
Leung, said ycsterda~: "At Unlike Europe and the would soar if it was legal~sed.
the moment we are still ver United States where users are
much of the o inion that the mainly young .people, 65 per ~ Drug 'experts here have _
use of cannab s is harmful to ~nt of addicts m Hongkong Bot to rely mainly on overseas
- are over 30. reports on the effects of mari-
- the human body. juana.
"Medical re orts have According to head of the
p But those published re-
' shown that long term use can police Narcotica Bureau, ~ntly have produced the
cause brain damage. Superintendent DiGk W il- school of thought that ro-
do nat s~e an ssibil- ~~amson, they come from low-
y p�~ income families living in longed marijuana smo mg
ity of relaxing our laws. causes blurred perception,
The British report, com- harsh environmental condi- blurred mind, hallucinations, R
tions.
piled by the institute for the and a decay of personal. hy-
Ninety per cent of drug
Study of Drug Dependence, giene.
warned that "irresistible" users in Hon~kong take her- As one expert said: "There
pressures might force the oin, five to s~x per cent use ~s a tendency among users to -
Government to drop the law. opium and the rest take pills forget their personal cleanli- -
_ It said: "(t is clear that artd mari~juana. ness, this could lead to a 1
Canmbis is almost exclu- ran e of illnesses includin
marked shifts in public opin- sivel used among ex atriates g g -
ion have occurred in recent - etther ~tudents or ~tinerant malnutrition. They just don t
years. travellers. � seem to care anymoro."
� "The possibility cannot be Supt Williamson said the Another expert said it
ruled out that at some time in cou~ld lead to crime.
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- Hong Kong SOUTH CHTNA MORNING POST in English 10 Aug 79 p 1
(Text] China was yesterday accused of f.raming 21 Hongkong people it said
_ ran drugs to Canton.
And it was also blamed for the death of a 22nd man in a jail cell.
The accusations came at a press conference hurriedly called by the 21,~
who had just been deported from the mainland. The group denied the charges,
which cost them fines, a week in a Canton jail and a prominent position on
the front pages of leadin~ leftwing Hongkong newspapers. .
They claimed that the dead man--Tse Siu-ming--died of food poisoning in ~
his cell on Wednesday morning when they were all released. His death was
due to negligence, they added.
~ The local newspaper reports about their "crimes" angered the 21 men, who
are aged between 20 and 30. One of them, who would only say his name was
Chan, admitted he had been taking heroin for 10 years, since he was 14.
But he said he had gone to Canton merely "to kick the habit."
The TA KUNG PAO, and other newspapers, said the men took, and trafficked
in, dangerous drugs during a visit to China last month. The report said
- that they were detained and fined between 100 renmimbi and RMB2,600 each--
the equivalent of the value of the drugs in which they had trafficked.
The communist paper said Tse Siu-ming died of a suspected overdose of
sleeping pills while under detention.
It claimed: "Tse and his cousin smuggled heroin into Canton from Hongkong
twice last month--on the 24th and again on the 26th." The paper said they
made Rr~380 from the sale of drugs.
- The 21 men ~vere arrested in a s_ries of midnight raids on Canton hotels on
August 1.
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- overseas Chinese as well as visitors from Hongkong and Macau had been
selling and taking dangerous drugs in Canton recently.
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our reputation, our constitution and our people's health." _
Hongkong police are not considering taking action against the 21. '
A senior policeman said China had not forwarded any information to Hong-
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POLICE SEEK CHIU CHOW MAN IN DRUGS PROBE
Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA`KORNING POST in English 19 Jul 79 p 11
[Te;ct] PJarcotics Bureau officers are anxious to contact a 41-year-old
Chiu Chow businessman who i~?ay be able to assist investigations into a
drug trafficking syndicate.
The man, Mr Lau Honsum, has been missing from his home in Ma Tau Wai
Road, Kowloon City, since early this year and his present whereabouts -
are not knokm. ~
Police believe Mr Lau is still in Hon~kong. The Immigration Department
does not have a record of his leaving.
His family is still living in the Kowloon City home.
Police have been investigating a syndicate which smuggles drugs from
Thailand and Hongkong into Canada.
Mr Lau is about 5 ft 3 in tall, and has a fair complexion, dark brown
eyes. He usually wears spectacles.
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Hong, Kong SOUTH CHINA i~fORNING POST in English 29 Aug 79 p 1
[Article by Tommy Lewis]
[Text]
Customs of'ficers have some idea of the Two customs investigation teams at the,
people involved in the attempted smuggling of airport and the Joint Customs-Police Investi-
60 Ibs of No 3 heroin, which was seized at the gat~ons Unit were placed on full alert.
airport yeste~day. Supt Prisk disclosed that two unmanifest-
It was thc largest single seizure so far this ed cartons were found on a Singapore Air-
year. lines flight which arrived on Sunday from the
Officers From the lnvestigations Bureau, isiand republic via Bangkok.'
led by Superintendent K. S. Tong, were early The cartons were addressed to Dodwell
this morning probing the background and Trading Co in Star House, Tsimshatsui, -
movements of the suspected consignees. which had been defunct since March.
- And the head of Custom's Investigations Customs officers opened the cartons and.
Bureau, Senior Superintendent Jim Prisk, found 32 one-pound packets of No 3 heroin in
stiid last night that the authorities in Singa- one and Z8 packets in the other, Supt Prisk
_ pore and Bangkok had been informed of the said. !
se~zure and are assisting in the inquiries. He said his of~cers took over inve.atiga-
Supt Prisk said that fhe heroin, with a tions and waited for two days for someone to _
purity about 30 per cent, has a str~et value of collect the consignment but no one showed
$30 million. ~P�
But it could be double that figure if The drugs were seized yesterday and will
diluted as 0.1 of a gram of heroin with a be handed to the Governrrment Chem~st today
purity of between nil and 10 per cent is for analysis.
- currently being sold for between $120 and 'We are conducting in-depth investiga-
$I50, tions into the ~yople involved in Hongkong
Supt Prisk said the bureau had received and we are wa?ting for the results of investi-
word a week ago that racketeers were at- gations in Singapore and Sangkok," Supt
tempting to smuggle a large quantity of drugs . Prisk said.
into Hongkong by air because of the acute He added that.the people who worked, for
shortage here. Dalwell Trading Co are not mvolved.'
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1 Hong Kong SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST in English 16 Aug 79 p].1 -
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; THIS is a copy of my leucr to the then official figure of 100,000 drug an estimate from thc rccurded sl;iliziics
Commissioncr For Narcotics, Mr P.E.L addicts came from, and not one Covcrn- of the Police Idcntification Bureau by
~ Lec, in response to a letter from him in ment official kncw. including your prc� taking a five per cent random sampling
Thc Journai af Toronto, Canada, on decessor as Commissioner for Narcot- from the files 1945-1965, discardmg
~ drug addicts in Hongkong. ics, Mr Norman Rolph. thosc ~Ics which containcd no rccord of
Dcar Mr Lec, It was bascd, my husband had d dangerous drugs offcncc. Thc rc~wrt
' My attention has been drawn to a found, on an obscure set of Prison addic~ Went on to statc:
I Ictter from you, published in The Jour- figures calculated on a five per cent "We estimate that the prescnt num-
nal on June 1 in which you challengc a basis and multiplied by 20 and cven in ber of malr narcofic addicls whu
statemcnt of mine with regard to thc the original official report was said to have been conviclcd in Hongkong is
number of drug addicts in Hongkong in be only an estimated guess. in the region of figures of 30,66U
1972 being in the region of 250,000 or In view of Hongkong's well-known ~6,300" (my italics) and that "this
onc in 16 of the population. history of addiction, and lack of any Was based morc on inwition than
I.hould be very interested to have a internationally known adequatc pro- evidence." '
copy of The Central Registry of Drug gramme of trcatment or cure, 1~nd a The ACAN report 19G7 dcclared:
Addicts report 1976-78 which .you figurc of 50,000 or below not only Thc number of addicl~ knawn to
quotc in support of your own figures. surprising, but incredible. svci:~l or mcdic~l agencies form .ln
I rccap with considerable scepticism ~n 1929 .when Hongkong's popula- ~nsignr~can! proportion of thosr
the Ccntral Registry being initiated, I tion was well under R00,000, thcre was known eolhclaw.
think in 1972, the intenm report of an official figure of 125,000 drug ad- Finally, thc Socicty for the Aid
which stated: dicts, and Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts
An eslimated l0 per cent al' flong- getween 1960 and 1970 with a five- ~SARDA) Annual Rcport 197Q slatcd:
kong's� drug addicts havc registered fold incrcase in population, a generally "An addict makes .~o ,norr ~,dd�e, -
voluntarily wilh the Central Regis- acccpted but less conservative official ~n his addiction lifclimc"and that it
lry of Addicts, set uQ seven months estimatc was 150,000. was only in the prcvious hvu years
ago by Thc Act~on Commitlec that the problcm of multi-dcpendent
Aguinst Narcoeics more ehan In 1936 it was sfated in a Govcrn- pcrsons w~thin a family had emergcd
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Caracas EL NACIONAL in Spanish 3 Aug 79 p D-26 ~
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maritiuana in bricks were seized by detect~ves of the General Anttnarcotics '
Division, according to Coumlissioner Leopolodo Yerena Wi.ebe, head of. that
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Venezuelan, brought the drugs into the country to be distributed in the ~
ni~ht spots on the east side of the city. Tfiey were both arrested in a home
- in the E1 :larques development. . ;
There had been reported seizures of LSD tablets reported for 4 or 5 years. i
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tiona~. connections, although he revealed that the cocaine seized is 90 per- ;
cent pure; after being.mixed with lactose it would reach tTie consumer ;
market at 3 to 5 percent purity.
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easier.
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who tJere arrested, jno other photo prir~ted]
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pills, accozding to the Antinarcotics Bureau of the PTJ [Judicial Technical
Police]. The pills, worth 50,000 bolivars, were taken from Humberto
Loggiovini Sevilla (35), who was turned over to the regular courts. TMe ~
Antinarcotics Bureau believes that the prisoner had been distributin~ the ~
pi11s on the west side of the city. Apparently he had been under surveil-
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RISE IN OPIU~I PRODUCTION, GOVERNrIENT COUNTERMEASURES
Hamburg DER SPIEGEL in German 13 Aug 79 pp 113-115
[Text] Because it is not forbidden by the Koran, Khomeyni the moralist has
- been tolerant of narc~otics so far--but now the first p~ddler has been exe-
cuted.
Anyone caught drinking hard liquor receives up to 100 floggings, prostitutes
- and procurers are threatened even by death--only those en~oying the intoxi-
cation of new freedom with help of the opium pipe can do it in relaxed draws.
The addicts, estimated at about 2 million (5.2 percent of the total popula-
tion), profit from the twisted legal logic of the pious Ayatullah Khomeyni:
In contrast to alcohol, the Koran does not expressly forbid the use of
narcotics. To the hero of the Islamic revolution, who derives the code of
human behavior exclusively from the Holy Script, this is apparently reason
enough to consider narcotics a sin forgivable by Al1ah.
Khomeyni's legal norm has already had devastating consequences. Until the
fall of the shah, Iran imposed the death penalty for possession of only
10 grams of heroin or 1 kilogram of opium. In addition, sharp pressures
by a special police in the classical opium provinces on the Western border--
Kurdistan. Laurestan and Azerbaidzhan--reduced the cultivation of poppies
to a 15,000-hectare area under state control.
Yet, after the fall of the shah, the Persian poppy farmers returned to their
trade without delay. In the estimation of the Tehran narcotics authorities,
at least 26,000 hectares were planted with poppy during this summer, and the
crop gathered during this time and processed to yield 600 tons of opium was
the largest in this century. Associates of the shah are using heroin as
currency in their flight from the Ayatollah.
The oversupply suppresses the prices. Although two-thirds of the crop flows
through uncontrolled channels t Europe and the United States, even the
merchants in their own country offer opium in such amounts that addicted
Persians, who had to pay $11 for 1 kilogram of opium during the shah's reign,
can now have the same amount for half that price. A sarcastic comment by
the Tehraners: "Cheaper than coffee."
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The drug is an ancient tradition in Persia. The greatest poet of the country,
Firdauwsi, who is used as a national hero by the revolutionary regime as
well, already sang about opium as the "illuminating moon above the world" in
the llth century.
His compatriot and contemporary, Hassan Sabah ("old man of the mountains"),
founder of a fanatical sect, has even lent his t~ame to hashish. Hassan's
followers, the much feared "Hashashmin" pulled out from their mountain hide-
aways in a drugged state on their commando attacks in order to kill unfriendly
adversaries and adherents to other beliefs.
Just like the use of tobacco in the West, smoking an opium pipe in Persia
was a daily evening custom for everyone and, up to the most recent times,
opium was used as the universal medicine against painful and contagious
diseases--even against measles--by the majority of the Persian country
physicians.
- As producer and exporter of the national poison, Persia supplied up to 30
percent of the world's demand during the early twenties. Before the dis-
covery of petroleum, Persian merchants became rich from narcotics trade.
_ Opium alone produced 15 percent of the foreign trade profits.
Only the father of the shah, who was a Cossack-ataman when he conquered the
throne of the Persian Empire in 1925, took serious st~ps against the national
addiction to narcotics--from fear that he might not be able to find a suffic-
ient number of soldiers and workers among the many addicts for his ambitious
: plans at modernization.
Yet he could not completely prevent the cultivation of poppies in the im-
passable land, just as his son Reza Pahlevi could not later. Mostly in
response to pressure from the United States, which wanted to dry up the
supply to its addiction-prone armed forces, Iran was the first state in the
world to officially prohib it the cultivation of poppies. For the loss of
about $40 million yearly income from medicinal opium export the shah
received compensation by Washington.
- Yet 14 years later the rigorous law was again liftsd by the emperor ostensibly
because Iran's neighbors, Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan, did much too
little against opium cultivation and opium smuggling in their own countries.
In reality he did not have the power to control the illegal cultivation of
poppies.
_ Henceforth, in Iran, the sale and possession of narcotics were punishable
_ by dea~h: Between 1969 and 1976 nearly 400 individuals were executed by the
military tribunals as alleged dealers.
As suspected already at the time by Amnesty International, not all were
caught with narcotics contraband. Under charge of being a narcotics dealer,
_ many political adversaries of the shah regime were also shot. In any case
this was confessed by agents of the earlier Savak to Khomeyni's revolutionary
tribunals.
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In one of his earliest speeches on Islamic morality, he referred to narcotics
dealers as "traitors first class and a danger to society."
Yet the attempt to buy up raw opium from the peasants by doubling the state
price to 16,000 rials (about 400 German marks) and thereby to withdraw it
from illegal trade has largely met with failure. The fact that Khomeyni
declared the use of narcotics as "un-Islamic" did not decrease the number
of addicts in the slums of Tehran.
Thus only the usual call for the judge remains for the Ayatollah. End af
July, in the city of Sari, a man was condemned to death and executed for the
sale of narcotics, rape and sodomy.
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HE~IP CDLTIVATION--Recently a new kind of agriculture has developed in =
;ustria ~hat is strictly prohibited and constitutes a crime against public
health: the cultivation of Indian hemp for producing hashish and marihuana.
= Poli.ce authorities have appealed to the people to imM~diately report any
- observatior,~ regarding the cultivation of hemp. In upper Austria alone,
more than 30 kilos o.f Indian he.mp were seized in the past few months. Hemp
' needs much sun. The hidden plantations thus are to be found mostly in sunn~y
places, primarily on southern edges of forests, in shut-down quarries-or in -
- the middle of grain fields. Some addicts who grow Indian hemp primarily for _
their own consumption are doing it nowadays in their own gardens. It is
possible without special expert knowledge to make both hashish and marihuana
~rom Indian hemp grown in Austria. According to police, persons growing
- hemp for their personal use face jail sentences of up to 6 months. Anyone -
growing it on a larger.scale for sale is commiting a crime against public _
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NARCOTICS SMUGGLING REPORTEDLY LED BY TNTERNATIONAL RING
~ Nicosia ELEVTHERI KYPROS in Greek 24 Au~ 79 p 1 NC _
_ [Text] Limassol, 23 August--According to authentic reports, a big interna-
~ tional gang of smugglers has been engaged in the illegal.trafficking of large
quantities of narcotics from Arabian countries to Europe using Cyprus as a
transit center. -
Specifically, the recent arrest of a Lebanese, Victor Louis 'Aziz, on the -
= Limassol-Nicosia highway after 60 kilos of hashish was discovered in his
car is not unrelated.
- According to reports, police investigations in the 'Aziz case have estab-
_ lished that the transfer of narcotics from Limassol to Nicosia was being
_ watched from a distance by the leader of the gang himself, who is said to
be a ci~izen of a European country.
When the large-scale smuggler saw his agent being arrested by Cypriot police-
men near Yermasoyia, he immediately headed for Larnaca airport, boarded the -
. first plane out and disappeared, using an open return ticket.
_ After his arrest 'Aziz disclosed the name of the gang leaaer to the police. ~
However, all efforts by the authorities to apprehend him before he could -
~ leave Cyprus territory railed becausP ths wanted merchant of slow death had ~
already arrived at his point of destination.
- According to the same reports, Interpol had already been notified about the -
case and Interpol officials have disclosed that the said gang leader is very
- well known for his "activities" in Europe and th~t he is also wanted by the
police in all European and Arabian countries.
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Istanbul CUMHURIYET in Turkish 19 Au8'79 P 5 -
~ext~ Edirne: In a case held in the Edirne Court for Serious Offenses, the
- Attorney General has maintained that the 1at and 2nd paragraphs of Article 403 -
- of the Turkish Crimina.l Code, which provide for life imprisonment for thoae
I who either bring narcotic substances into the country or take them abroad~ are
I , contrary to the principle of equitablenesa set forth in Article 12 of the Con-
~ stitution. The court, considexing the objection serious, has decided that the
' matter is to be sent to the Constitutiona.l Court.
~ In another case held in the same court, defense attorney Osman Kiper claimed
that these paragraphs had been drawn up in ~953 ~?der the influence of the
; United States of America~ pointing out that for a sentence to be imposed in a
case of smuggling one gram o~ hashieh into or out of the country which would
; not be imposed for more serious offenses is contrary to the principle of
equitableness. The court, assenting to these viewa, decided that the claim
of unconstitutionality was valid.
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TURKEY
- POPPY GROWERS DISCRUNTLID ABOUT PRICES .
Istanbul AYDINLIK in Turkiah 21 Aug 79 p 2
- ~etter from Huseyin Saglik of Selcen vill~
- ~ext] Ecevit, who calls himself "the Hero of the Poppies and of Cyprus", hae
made peasants regret that they ever planted poppies.
Poppies are one of the most important crops grown in Turkey. We can aummarize
" the benefits to the Turkish econompr accruing from poppies in the following
- three points:
- 1) It is a fact lrnor~n to all of us that opium ie utilized in 80 percent of
~ the pharmaceuticals industry. This indicatea tha,t, of every 100 citizene .
, who fall sick in Turkey, 80 of them require this product.
At the same time, it saves the econom4r from b~}ring the raw materiala of the
pharmaceutica?s industry from abroad. This is a great benefit for a Turkey ~
which is begging for foreign exchange from abroad.
_ 2) Poppy oil cake is also very important from the standpoint of animal nutri-
tion~. At the same time, it is a rare blessing from the standpoint of ineeting
peoplo's needs for such food products as meat, milk~ and eggs, as well as
from the standpoint of earning badly needed foreign excha.nge by being gold -
abroad.
3) A third benefit of poppy oil ca.ke is the leather and wool obtained from
- anitnals fed or~ it .
_ The oil extracted from poppy seeds could also be used to meet Turkey's need
- for oil. With their undeveloped resources, our people are using the oil
which they extract from poppy seeds.
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Now let ue look at what the government ia doing in the ma,tter of auch an im-
portant crop. _
In spite of the 100-percent and 200-percent rise in the cost of living since
- last year~ the price of poppy capsule$ has ~one nowhere. Poppy~ capsulee are -
currently being bought for 23 to 25 liras. No importance whatsoever is being~
ascribed to the seede of the pappy.
Thia means: "You pa.y for the field, the fertilizer, the plow; you do the
work: the crushi.ng, the cutting for months at a time~ taking care of the
land until the harvest, you have the crop crushed in the machine and bagged,
you pay for the transport, and we'll do the eating."
Have the poppy producers become the guarantors of all Turkey's debts? If
the government, instead of placing such a high penalty on poppy capsules, -
woulci say to me either "grow one donum ~bout 1/4 acr] of poppies for no-
- thing" or "don't plant ar~y poppies", it would be acting in a much more
straightforward ma,nner.
Let me explain. to you my own situation: This year I turned in 136 capsules
to the office. At 25 liras per kilo, this makes 3400 liras. They deduct~d
48 lir.as for tranaport, ~o I got 3352 liras.
In order to obtain the 136 kilos, I ha.d had expenses of 4365 liras. There
was also all the labor of ~y wife and family. E`ven in we don't count these,
I lost 1013 liras.
The sa.tuations of all the villagers are either similar to mine or worse.
To the politicians who have exploited the poppy-planting villagers for years,
and to r^.cevit, "the Hero of the Poppies and of Cyprus", we have this to ask:
Is this the way development is groing to begin with the villages? Is this the
way that the poppy producers, all of whom are losing money, are to advance,
to develop t he country?
~ We aek: Is the poppy question also, like the U-2 spy plane affair, a matter
for bargaining? Is this included in the letter of intent tha.t you gave to
t he IMF"?
It is said that opium is poisoning the youth of the world. We are totally -
against this, totally againat the poisoning of youth. But opiwn amuggling
ca.nnot be stopped by starving the peasants. The ways and meana of stopping
it are clear.
We want the government and the politicians to set a price which will brighten
the faces of the poppy growers. :~.e politicians must speak more forthrightly.
Poppy bloasoms must not be hung on cara in election rallies, poppies must not
be exploited in this way; the peasant mu.st not be deceived; the prices which
the peasant deserves must be given.
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UNITED KINGDOM _
CANNABIS HAUL CALLED 'TIP OF ICEBERG'
London THE DAILY TELEGRAPH in English 14 Aug 79 p 6 ~
~ [Text] Six men were accused yesterday of being part of an international
drugs ring involved in smuggling 250,000 pounds worth of cannabis into
Britain.
~ 1~he six were in court following a nationwide swoop by police and Customs
officers last week.
The haul was described by Mr Monty Featherman, magistrates chairman at
Bradford, as perhaps "only the tip of the iceberg."
- One c~f the leading members of the organisation was alleged to be Eric
Beecroft, 42, a businessman of Harden Grange, Bingley, Yorkshire.
Ttao other leading members were said to be Mohammed Sabir, 42, of Bishop
Street, Bradford and Saber Hussain Mir, 44, of Portia Street, Ashington,
Northumberland.
In the dock with them were Hukmat Khan, 43, of Greaves Street, Bradford _
and Abdul Rauf, 56, of Thornhill Place, Bradford. ,
The five were remanded in custody for three days.
A sixth man, Neil Andrew Harriman, 27, of Ulverley Green Road, O1Con,
a Solihull was remanded on bail until September 27.
All six are charged in connection with the illegal importing of cannabis
into Britain.
Mr Stephen Couch~ for Rauf, applied for reporting restrictions to be -
lifted. ~
A Customs and Excise officer, Mr Bernard Tarleton, told the magistrates
that the case involved the smuggling of cannabis resin worth 100,000
pounds, and cannabis oil, known as hash, worth 150,000 pounds.
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"We have established that this is a large operation, operating in Pakistan
and Bradford. There are international implications and many further
inquiries have to be made."
Opposing bail for Rauf, Mr rarleton said it was feared he would interfere
with witnesses if released.
Mr Tarleton claimed Beecroft had admitted receiving ten drug parcels, -
eacri worth 10,000 pounds. "And I understand firearms were found on his
premises."
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UNITED KINGDOM
BRIEFS
HEROIN SEIZURE--Customs men who are working to rule seized heroin worth
over 1 million pounds on the black market at Heathrow Airport yesterday.
It was said to be the largest find in Britain this year. The haul was
discovered in the luggage of a man who had arrived from.the Middle ~ast.
Customs men pounced as he got into a taxi and was about to leave for
London. He had ~ust walked through the green "nothing to declare"
' channel unchallenged. Mr Geoffrey Eteson, national officer of the ~
Society of Civi1 and Public Servants, said: "This backs up our argu-
ment that we need more customs officers to prevent this sort of thing _
happening, not less as the G~vernment seem to think." [R. H. Greenfield]
[Excerpt] [London SUNDAY TELEGRAPH in English 5 Aug 79 p 1] _
CANNABIS FIND IN BANANA--A big haul of cannabis, hidden in a banana, was
found by Customs officers working to rule at Heathrow Airport yesterday.
On Saturday, customs men seized three kilos of heroin worth 300,000 pounds
and arrested two Iranians. In the case involving 25 lb of cannabis,
officers became suspicious while checking a Nigerian woman's baggage in
the green "nothing to declare" channel. They opened one of a bunch ef
bananas and found that the fruit had been removed and the skin filled
with cannabis. The skin had been carefully stitched. Other seizures
made by Customs at the weekend included half a kilo of morphine worth
100,000 pounds, and a large quantity of pornographic films. The Customs
-~en, who are members of the Society of Public and Civil Servants, are _
protesting against Government plans to cut staff by 1,800 this year and
a further 6,000 next year. [Robert Bedlow] [Excerpts] [London THE DAILY
TELEGRAPH in English 6 Aug 79 p 1]
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