JPRS ID: 9089 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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NARCOTICS AN1D DANGEROUS DRUGS
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- 14 May 19~0
= WORLDWIDE REP~RT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS ~
(FOUO 21/80)
CONTENTS
ASIA
BURMA
Rebel Groups Derive Main Income From Drug Traffic
(Zaw Win; BUSINESS TIMES, 18 Feb 80) 1
MALAYSIA
Drug Rehabilitation Cetiter Opened in Sarawak -
- (NEW STRAITS TIMES, 9 Feb 80) . 2 _
Drug Aouse Seen as Security Threat, Not Social Problem
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 15 reb 80) 3
y Vocational Training for Drug Addicts
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 20 Feb 80) 4
Therapeutic Treatment for Hardcore Addicts
(NEW STRAITS TIMES, 22 Feb 80) 5
Narcotics Arrests, Trials, Sentences Reported
, (Various sources, various dates) 6
- Two Get Life Sentences
Syndicate Head Arrested -
Opium Sentence
Soldier Sentenced
_ Heroin Seized
Heroin Sentences
_ Drug Raids
Heroin Trial
Life Sentence Appealed
Crimes Linked to Drugs
- Drug Sentences
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CONTENTS (Continued) Page _
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PAKISTAN
C~untry's Antidrug Measures Examined
(THE PAKISTAN TIMES, 13 Apr 80) 11
Briefa -
Opium, Charas SPized 13 ~
Narcotics Smuggler Held lj _
- Lahore Opium Haul 1~`
Optum Seized ~~4
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PHILIPPINES
Nation"s Antidrug Pushing Drive Widened
{PHILIPPINES DAILY EXPRESS, 16 Mar 80) 15
Briefs
Marinuana Farm Raided 16 _
International Drug Ring 16
SINGAPORE -
_ Reorganization of Central Narcotics Bureau
- (STRAITS TIMES, 9 Feb 80) ?7 =
THAILAND
Soem Meets PRC Ambassador, U.S. Narcotics Official :
_ (Bangkok Domestic Service, 24 Apr 80) 18 _
i'hai-Lao Governors rieet or~ Trade; Joint To Combat Drugs -
(BAN NN~iN~, 6 Mar 80) 19 -
LATIN AMFRICA _
ARGENTINA -
Briefs -
Drug Traffickers Arrested 20 -
_ Cocaine Hydrochloride Seized 20 _
BRAZIL
Largest Cocaine, Marihuana Ring in Federal District Smashed
' (CORAEIO BRAZILIENSE, 22 Mar 80).........o 21
Five Drug Traffickera Arrested in Borel Di3trict -
(0 GLOBO, 2 Apr 80) 24 -
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Briefs -
Traffickers in Schools Arreated 2( -
- COLOMBIA
Drugs, Plane, Boat, Vehicles Seized =
- {EL TIEMPO, 25 Feb 80) 27
- North Coast Operations Summarized
_ Launch, Light Plane Seized, by Narciso Castro
Marihuana Seized, by Jose Cervantes
Cocaine Laboratory Explodes in Bogota
(EL ESPECTADOR, 9 Feb 8J) 3~
Cocaine Smuggled in Commercial Lard Tins
(EL ESPECTA.DOR, 19 Feb 80).... 32
Plane, Traffickers Seized in Santa Maria
_ (EL ESPECTADOR, 21 Feb 80) 34
- Briefs
Antidrug Army Units Withdrawn 35 ,
= NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
_ AFGH.4NI STAN /
- Erjefs
- Raw Opium Seized 36
- SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA ~
NIGERIA
Details on 'African Connection' Given
(Sylviane Kamara; JEUNE AFRIQUE, 16 Apr 80)............ 37
WEST EUROPE
AU5'TRIA
Briefs -
Hashish Smuggler Arrested qp
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_ = CYPRUS
Drugs Seized in Famagusta, Political Overtones Ploted
(Various sources, 25 Apr 80) 41
Officials Seize Narcotics
_ Political Implications Given
FIDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY -
Bxiefa
Heroin Ring Broken Up `+2 _
Heroin Consumption Estimated 4`
_ FINLAND
Authorities Study Charges Physicians Sold Dru~.s Illegally =
(HELSINGIN SANOMAT, 19 Mar 80) 43 ~
- Briefs 4~
Amphetamines in Helsinki
First Uusikaupunk~. Drug Arrests
FRANCE -
Heroin Seizure, Overdose Deaths Noted .
(L'HUMANITE, 4 Apr 80) 47
SWEDEN
Member of Turkish Drugs Gang Murdered, Operated in FRG
(Leif Dahlin; DAGENS NYHETER, 19 Mar 80) 49
Gang That Smuggled Drugs From Netherlands Braken Up _
(Leif Dahlin; DAGENS NYHETER, 19 Mar 80) 53
- Dr~ig Expert Criticizes Treatment Centers , 55
(Eva Hamilton; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 15 Mar 80)............
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= tdelfare Board Would Use Ex-addicts in Treatment Wards 57
(Kerstin Vinterhed; DAGENS NYHETER, 19 Mar 80)........... -
Large Co-op Retailer Stops Sale of Drug Paraphernalia ~
(Mona Johansson; DAGENS NYHETER, 2 Apr 80) 59
Briefs 61 ~
_ 7`wenty in Gang Arrested 61
- Drug Paraphernalia Ban
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SWITZEF.LAND -
Heroin Smuggling Group Escapt.s From Prison
- (NEUE ZUERCHER ZEITiTNG, 10 Apr 80) 52
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- RI:Rf~L CROUI'S f11~:RlVf; ~L11~ iNCOME FR(1~1 DRUC '['fZAFFIC
hiiriln ~.umy~i~r I;Uti(NI:SS 'I'1~IES in En~lish l8 Feb 80 p 17 -
[~r.ticle by "L~~w Win in RangoonJ
_ ["I~ext ] DESPITE a relentleas These dIverse rebel gramme aimed at total -
anti-narcottes campalgn gYOUps are often brought eradicatlon of illicit
by the government in re� together by thefr com- opi~m production and
cent yeara, plen:y of mon desire to safeguard traHicking by 1979.
opium is still grown il- their stakea in the clan- Receht aerinl aurveys -
licltly in BLrma and deatine drug trade. and ground checkfl, how-
finda ita way through gurmese army troops ever, revealed the ex-
Thatland into the world have penetrated deep ietenr,e of 5,002 acres of
drug market. Exact fig- into the jungles and illiclt opium tielda in tt~e
ures are hard to get but struck ~erioua blowa at Shan atate, with 200 acrea
informed sourcea eatl- atrongholda of drug�run- located cloae to Taung-
mate Burma's annua] ~ng rebels. But military gyi, the etate capital.
opium production at olficials admit lt ia im- Speclal army and po-
about 200 tonnea. poaeible to monltor con� lice anti-narcotic cont-
B u r m e e e a n t i- ~~t~y or patrol the vaat Ingenta were thrown into
narcotlcs otlicera aay ~ber areae. 8han etate to try to atrlke
- they aelzed 6b7 kilo� The terrain on the down this year'e crop.
- grammea (1216 rounde) Burmeae alde of the They reported that they `
of narcotIcs in 1979. The notori}~pus "GolderL Tri- had deatroyed 1,200 acres
reat of the opium ta pse- angle srea = where the of opfum In December
sumably amuggled out of bordere of Thailand, and January.
- the country. Laos and Bi:rma meet - Saldiers an~ polt~ce are
~ Thetradelabc'ngkept ia extremely rugged, now going after the rest
allve by various armed which ia o2ten to the ad- ot the oplum crop.
rebel groups who derive vantage of drug-runnera Last year a US con-
their main income from greeaional delegatlon led
the tratfick~r5 and by the ~?d their protectora, the by representative I.eater
Shan and L$hu 8uerillas. ~ya~ff visited the
tribeamen who preter to Although opium prod- gurmese aide of the !
grow opium rather than ucttan from the Golden ~lden Triangle area. ~
~ other cropa because it Trianqle la eaid to have ~r Wolft told re-
pays more. declined sh~c~ply in re- porters atter the trip that ;
Burmeae communiat oent yeare, it continuea to he W88 convinced anti- ~
inaurgenta, nelf-pro- remain a aource of in- narcotlc measurea in
_ clalmed "flghtera ot free- ternational concern. L u r m a w e r e a y n o- ;
dom againat the govern- In 1974, the Surmeae nymoua with anti-rebel ~
ment ot Presldent 1Ve government launched a operatlons, aince the re- '
V91n," are lnvolved in the tive-year oplvm eradica- bele are deeply involved
- opium trade. tion programme. in opium trade.
- So are other rebel Financed with khe ~r Wolft, who once
groupa built on trlbal help ot US=6.5 million criticlaed the Burmeee
linea, auch as the Kachin hom the Un7ted Nationa government for allegnd
Indepen~ience Army Fund for Drng Abuae ~e of C18 foreign-aid hel-
(KIA), the Shaw State ~otrol (UNFDAC) and icoptera in miUtary oper-
- Army (9SA), and the the Burmeae govern- atione against the rebels,
- Palaung and Y.ahu re- ment's contribution of eald that he was nQw sat-
~~8' U3;8 mi11lon, the pro- iafied that 4he use of the _
helicoptera agalnat drug-
running rebels was ;
juetified. - Reuter ~
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- I)Rl'C Ri~;il~(3 [ L I'f~'1' ION C~?~TER OPENED IN SARAWAK
Ku,11n Lumpur Nf:[v' S'1'Re1T'I'S TIMES in English ~ Feb 80 P 14
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KUCHING, Fri. - Previously dadah ad-
Sarawak's first dadah dicta were treated qt the
addicts' rehabilita.tion mental hoapital here.
centxe at the seventh Increase .
mile Jalan Penrisaen
- here will have its first On the dadal, menace
intake after the Chi- in the 3tate, Puan Hafsah
nese New Year, State said !t was on the in-
Asaistant Minieter of cresee:
- W e 1 f a r e S e r ~ i c e s, ghe called for all-out
Puan Hafsah Harun, enorta by the publlc, par-
said today. ticularly parenta and
Renovation ot the teachere, to inatil in the
former centre of rotec- children t11e fear of da-
P dah addictlon.
- tive study had been com� pu~ ~8$h, who ia
- pleted and it would be ~o State Pemadam vice
able to accomodate be� preeldent, hoped ~he
tween 800 to 1,000 addiate, media would not
ahe ea1d. ` lu blight the value of
At the centra, the ad- daaah in the black
- dicts would be given em- ~~ket as this would en-
ple opportunity as- courage moie pie to
sistance a:id treatmenf t~ {~~olved in rug traf-
turn over new leaf and t(cldng trade.
lead a normal lite, ahe She alao said the ~1.5
- added. miiltoa home for way-
They would be there w,~d girls in Mlri in the
for a minlmum of six Fourth Divieion would be
montha depending on r~gdy by early next year.
how well they responded _ ~rn~~
to treatment, she said.
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- [)Ri(G ABUSE Sl~:j?N AS 5I:CURI1'Y THREAT, NOT SOCIAL PROBLEM
Ku,lla Lumpur 2:I:W STRAITS TIi~tES in English 15 Feb 80 p 28
_ [Excerpt ] VIENI~'A, Thura. - ~d remove the lacunae ~~d, Al~ cultlvatlon of the -
Home Affairs Mintater in the conceptual de- ~uai puppy would be con-
Tan Sri Ghazali Shafie velopment of both na- ddered as an illegal activi- _
hae calhed ott the UNt- ~onsl and lnternational ty.
- etrategiea with eaci~ na- To ensure the avail-
ed Natione to tre8t the tion Lull aware of the ~b' of oplum tor medlc-
drug abuse acourge aia r~ potential dan- ~ he eald a Unlt-
a threat to national ae- gere of druge," he eaid. i~~deslgnatea boa;~
be wlhorlsed W undertakc
curity, atability aad i~` rtonce
inihe
~n- ~~�~~�ationvHththecloae
- resilience and not a.s a auon ot tt~e govern- `
ceptual approach to the i~r
social problem. problem, the programmea ~ w~ vertheaefarme
There ~vere ample l~ie- aad ettorts ln the areae of ~tewise, che production
toriCal examplee whete ~~'~e of aupply, the pt ~ynthetlc peychoactlve
psyChedelic druga had ~caUon and l n t
ormatfon ~~bould be prohiblted.
aeakened aocietlee and ~nd reiearch had been On research, Tan Srl
nations, Tan Sri (3hasali ~Omewhat l;mtted and in a~u ~atd trie Mala slnn
eaid at a e cial seeaion ~~Ome cuea grossly tnado- Natfooai Dadah Raearch
quste, de ~a1d.
ot tha UN mmisaion on Untll there t. � globa! Gntr~ 1ud pre~ented a pro-
Narcotle DPUgs heTe ye~- attltudtnal ahange hom tha P�~"~ ~e development ot
terday. bumaaltarlan overlone~ to a collaDOratlve undertaklng
He eaid a conceptual ~ of iecurlty, I guees even ooal asaeeemeat e(-
traaiework to imbibe in ~ moat aucceaetul ot the torm a baae for a
re onal data,bank.
segmente of the pro-
- J the minds of people a re- me, which le legisls- He tald thie proposa! had
vulelon towards drugs ~~d entercement with b��n andoreed at a rccent
inus~ be develo 8nd r~
ard to Ullclt tra[ttekin meeUng ot drug ex-
~ aod the centre had aleo
thls munt tske t e form wlll cdntinue to be deflcfent, ~ desf tpd as 'a WHO
ot a responee withln :'.e he s+1d.
lndividual'a psyche. "We muat take a tresh ~Usbors ng centre for re-
look at our policies aad pro- ~~h and tralning ln the
"Obviounly to creete deld ot dadah ence
_ the correCt milleu, the in- ~~�~e� 1� eradiceting We ~d had been ~ the
_ supply trom the areas where ~tus ot tunctio ae the
= do~trlnatton proceae fes are grown. On the ~
Asean monlto and co-or-
ahould commence from of the propoaed coa- ~
_ the cradle and continue ~P~. a new tnternatlonal ~ttng eecretarfat
rlg ht through infancy itrategq which wlll fac11-
adoleacence and finally itate tfie coatrol ut 11cit and
tlllclt producUon wi11 have � _
"We must alter aad ea- ~O ~ devined'~ _
pand nur conacfotunea:~ Policy
He propoaed that a pollcy
- ~hould be adopted by whlch ~
no llclt productlon would be~
_ allowed throuqhout the ~
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, rtn~.nv ti ~ n
V~)Cr1'1' I l)NAL "I'RA [ N I NG FOR DRUG ADL~ I CTS
- hii.ila Lum~,ur Nf?lJ STRAI'fS 'I'IhtES in I:n~;lish 20 Feb 80 p]U -
~ t ]
KUALA LUMPUR,, Tues. ber to provide vocational, men- ~ epective compan~ee," he added.
- The Government has ~~d pbyaical training for He eaid pemadam w~d
ap roved the eettin u of QIIe Year. ~o _
P try ta acquire arsa~ oin-
a emadam reha~~1~~R- He eaid the training would ~~~'ea of land, includfng a
tiOri camp to provide 8'ive addicts ~,~t only the op- ~ t~ mine, to be uaed by the -
vocational trairzin to d8- ~p�rt~~to reh8bilitate but inmatea for fiahery and
g would glve them greater ~~~ltural activitiee.
dah addicte. ~chances ot employmeat. Meanwhile, Deputy Home
Pemadam's Chairman for Attalrs Miniater Datuk 9eri
Treatment and ftehabilitation, i Dr Tan aaid Pemadam gy~ A},~~ ~h~abudin said
Dr Tan Tiong Hong, said today 'a'ould aleo aet up an em� the
that the camp, the firat of ita plO~ent eecretariat to help ~.e p henedr bCe Would be
- kind in the country, would be Iex~~~~ jo~� ~ Y more than
aituated on a 31-acre plot near "We wfll a,ak repreaentativea 8~e ~en to combat dadah -
Kampong Malayaia in Sungei from the pri.vate sector to joln Ex-addicta would aleo be
Beai. the employment committae to g1ven intelllgence aourees to
It will ata.rt taking in the help them aelect trained ex- be the "eyea and eara" of the
tlrat batch o! inmatea in Octo- addicte to work with their re- (3overnment iri ita attempt to r
stamp out the menace.
- The Ciovernment had -
a3~,eatLy declared dadah
aDude aa more dangerova
th~ail the communlet
threat.
w Strong meaeurea were
i being taken ae the =
aumber of addlcta in the
city alone had aoared u~
to 2b,o00.
In aupporting the ea-
tabliahment of the camp,
_ he said about 8b to 80 per
cent. u! the dadah addicta
who underwent treat-
ment at varioue re-
habilita4[on centree went
back to dadah addictlon. -
Thia, he said, was =
_ mainly d~ie to the dif-
ficulty in getting em-
ployment becauae ot the
Iack of proper training.
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- 'I'iII~.K_1PEUT[C '?'REr1'C~S!~:\T EOK HARDC(1RE ADDIC'1'S -
_ hu:ilr~ Lu[T:~~~~r ~iLl;r 5'I';~r1ITS TIrtES in I:n~lish 22 Feb 80 p 7
['I'~~xt ~
IPOH~ Thurs. -"Hardcore" dadah ad- Whelmtng poatt~ve ~e-
= dicts will have a better chance to bel~ ap�~~~"'~e added. '
rehabilitated with a new thera in- r Encik Yakob said the
PY new therapy In~ludea
troduced by the Pusat Pertolongan - eome or cne latest techni�
the help centre for the rehabilitation of quee including reallty
- addicts. therapy and primat aoe-
aionn. _
The centre has devetoped the firat therapeutic It la deetgned to de-
approach to hElp chronic dadah dependanta. velop deep aelt-aware-
"There ls no reaeon to 'neea and subaeqvent be-
despair no matter how havioural changes -
= badly a peraon ia ad- towarde aelt reaponef-
dicted or ho~v long he is billty and maturity.
on dadah or how many Encik Yakob sald the
timee he hae falled in his centre wae conatantly
$ttempt to Rive up da- eearching for new waye -
- dah;' ~ald ~t?e centre'a ot helplng peopie to !m- _
prealdent, Encik Yakob prove thelr pereonallty.
_ Abdul Rahman 3choler, M a n y p u e i t i v e
here today. changea have been in-
- " E xp e r! e n c e h a a troduced and more are
' shown that they need dif- expected with'the return _
ferent therapies and thia ~n May of two oi our ther-
� has now been iatroduced. apeutlc ataff on apeclal-
"The centre hae slnce ised training in the Unlt- -
last November aet up thia ed Statea.
new therapeutic centre ln "With this, the centre
Batu Ga~ah, which la eep- is looking ahead towarda
arate lrom the ons !or a dynamic role In this ~
"normal dadah abuaera". rield iointly with other
"Since then more than organ~eationa with eimi- -
~ 90 'hardcore' dadah ad- lar aime," he, said.
dicte have gone through
thia centre with over-
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= iv~1RCO'1' I Cti i\Rf�:f~:ti"i'ti ,"I'hI:11,S , Sf[~1TE~CES REPORTED
- 'I'~~o Cet I.if.c SE~ntc~nces
i:~~,~lri I.um~~iir Nh:ld S'1'R~1`CS 'I'IriES in Gnglish E, Feb 80 p 1.3
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PENANG, Tues. - in High Court and he not been delaycd. only smlll-tin~e runners.
_ 'I~ao men, who pleaded urged the court to con- Mr Karpal Singh snid Tan hns four children,
~uilty to dadah traf- s?der their plea as a there had been worst the eldest a s astle and
ficking, were sen� mltigating factor in case;s and the death pen- the youngeat only four
t e n C e d t o 1 i f e i m- assessing acntence. alty should be reserved years old ~
prisonment by the D p p M o h a m e d for these.
1 amin bin Haji Ismail, in Giving the facts of the
Hlgh Court tudtty. It would not be in the case, DPP Ynrr,in safd
asking for the death pen-
Ice-water eeller Koay alty, said the govern- ~ublic interest for the At- Central Narcotics Bu-
Hock Bok, 47, and Tan Ah ment had renlised the da- orney-General to appeal reau off(cers, acting on 1
Pee, 41, admitted a jolnt ~gh roblem and tts et- ~n cases where an ac� tip-off, latd an ambush at
churge ot~ trattic:dng In fect on society, cused had pleude~i guilty a bridg e tn Kampung
- 672 grammea of heroln In I to a charge of tra!ficking Perak Road on Aprll 2
Kumpung Perak Road on Consideratian and recei~ ed life im� 1978.
= April 2 1~78. prieonment, hc said. This AboUt an hour later
In addition, Mr Justice Encik Yamin sald it Would deter others from they saw Tan riding a
Gunn Chlt Tuan ordered Was his view the court Pleading gullty. motor�cycle. Koay, who "
thr~t Tan, who admitted w+ould not be performing Mr Karpal Singh said �'8s riding pillion, was
one conviction for having !te lunction properly if Koay, a firat offerider, in c'arrying a plaatic bag. '
_ dudah in 1973, be given the aerJouaneas o( the sit� pleading guilty and ad- The officere ldentifted `
elx 4trokea of the rotan, uation was r~ot reflected mltting the facts, showed themselves and Inspec-
~ The lite sentences for in the sentence or if the penitence. tor Mohamed Hamzah
twth men are to com- aentence lmposed ap� and a sergeant grabbed
mence Prom the date of eared to defeat the ob- Mr R. Rajasingnm, for Tan and Koay who put up
t;~elr arreata on April 2~ect of the atatute. T~?~ said !t was only in a struggle.
1976. In passing sentence, 1977 that .ameridments
- hir Karpal Singh, Mr Justice Gunn sald the Were made to tighien Another inspector and
counsel for Koay, snid offence was committed ~oopholee in law ln view $ constable helped In-
- this was the flret drug ~n 1978 and he took Into of the aerious problem of spector Hamzah and the
trafficking case under conaideratlon the fact dadah traffickinR. sergeunt to arrest Tnn
~ the Dangerous Drugs Or- that both accused would He said both accused and Koay. -
dinance in which the ac� have been tried three were not members ot a Police found three
- cused h1d pleaded guilty yeara ago if the trial had svndicate. They were P~gatlc paekets of a sub-
stance auspected to bc _
heroin wrapped in news-
paper inafde the plastic
_ bag.
The packets werc
found by the Chemistry
- Department to contain
672 grammes of heroin.
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Svn~iicrite }lead ,~rrested
I:u;i 1,1 i,iunPur ~;I~;IJ `~'I'I~ I'CS 'f Iht1~;5 i n P,n~;l isl~ 9 I~c~b 80 p 1
~ ~ PENAN~3, N'rl. - Po� lleved to be SlnRapore�
lice have nrrested a an.
man they belteve to be pa~~ce hae saught In�
the maetermind o( an ~erpol ueeietnnce In
Internatlonal dadah conneqtlon wlth the
traflic~ing nyndlcate. case.
The man, aged 90, pollce belleve the
wae ploked up lest 8at� yuepect has been In�
urday as 60 ~Checked In volved K~Ith duclah trat�
at Bayan Lepas Alrport fioking tor ~ometlme.
tor a[llght to Kuala ~ey also belleve he
Lumpur, mad an accompllce wha
The CID chiet her~e, ~ett for I4uala Lumpur
Mr WIW~m Llm, today on $sturdsy before the
- contirmed the arrest o1 ~eet. -
the man, who ity be�
Opium Sentenee
I:u:i I ri l.iim~ur N[:W STRAITS TIMES in English 12 Feb 80 p 19
MALACCA, Mdn. - A bus
['I~ext ~ QYtver. Lim Hock Lai, 33,
w.as sentenced to 12
months' lmprisonment
on two counts ot drug of- -
fencea
He pleaded guilty to thc
(irst charge ot posaessing
10.i3 grammes of opium at
hls house in Lorong Datuk
Manllu on Jan L `
- On the second charge, he
,.~dmltled poseeeaing two
- ecta ot emoking plpes, n tow-
cl conlafning tracea uf
,vp,~um and aevcral other ac�
- ccel~ories at the same tlme
nm1 plnce .
~~~~Court prealdent Au�
_ gvntine Paul sentenced hlm -
tp nine months' on the tirst -
chA+'ge and three months' on
lhe second charge.
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Sulclier Sc~nten~�c~d ~
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h;~i,iln I,um~~ur Vl:l~' S"PP,~11'I'S 'I'I~1F.ti in I'.n~;lish 14 Feb 80 p 5
_ t KUaLA LUMPUK, Wed.
~ ~ A soldicr (rom Sarawak, Ye-
tcr Lconard b[n Bud, 30, was
_ scntenced to nine monlhe' -
- impritonment by the Ses�
slons Court tcu poaeeealon of i
~irugs.
He was ~~ntenced to nine ~
month9 for huving 0.04
grlmmca ot heroin at the
- Second Divtsl~n, Sungei Besi
- Caimp, at il n.m. on Nov. 1,
iB76. .
Hc was glven another
_ four monthe for poaseeaing
two rolle of cannabis nt the '
+amc pluce and t1mc.
- Thc eentencce were or-
dcred to run concurrently.
~~('CO1T1 5~.17_eC~
E:~iril,i Lum~~iir NI?[J .`;'('R~11'CS T~MLS in English 22 l~c~b 80 p 7
I'~'t,Yt ~ BiJTTERWORTH, Thurs. - Police caug~t a suspected dadah
pusher as he wae trying to flush 150 grammes of heroin down
r~ toilet in Telok Air Tawar early today. -
A married couple has been detained in connection with the raid on a
- houae in Kampung Setol, Telok Air Tawar, about eight miles from here.
The selzure, worth ~
about ;18,000, was an un� '�'~cording to intorma- "The occupanta ap-
expected success tor the tton rece.ved the wanted parently saw the poltce
man could be staying in apProaching and one ot
pollce. Kampung Setol. them ran to the annexe
They had gone to the A 10-man party led by with a packet of heroin.
house in eearch of a man guklt Mertaiam OCPD "He wae about to flueh
~~hom they belleved AgPAzlzNawiandDepu� it down the toilet when
� could heip aolve an at� ty pCpD (crlme) Acting poliee grabbed' him,"
tempted murder caae ln qgp Mazlan Jamil aur- a apokeeman eaid.
Buk1t Mertajam in 1978, rounded a houae at 2.30 The heroin, whlch ia
!n whlch a policeman~ g,m, enough for more than
waa ahot. 30,000 ahote, were aelzed.
}Ieroin Sentences
kurilrt t,~im~~ur NELti' S'CR~11'1'S TIi~t[:S in Lnglish 23 Feb 80 p 8
~~~~E�~ IPOH, FrL - A 2d-year-old 'i'he dther two, Ong Chin
woman waa amon three Boag and Wong Tak, were
peoplewho recefved~ail een- each ae~tenced to eight
tences today for having da- monthe' lmprtaonment tor
' dah� having about 0.03 grammes
Gee Yoon Yew, [rom aad 0.09 grammes ot heroin
- Kampung 91mee, waa een- c'espectively.
tenced to stx montha' Im� Ong, 28, from Kampung
eonment, etfective from Tawa~, admitted commit-
an. 3, when ahe admitted ting the offence ln Jalan
poseeesing a etraw tube con- Clark on Oct. ]e, lnet year
talning heroln at L,orong wh11e Wong, also 23, pleaded
8atu tn Kampung $Imee ~Ity ta commltting the o[�
about 6.2b p.m. on Jan. 3. enCe at the regrouptn~ area
Ia 11[englembu on Jan, 2,
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1) C ll jZcl 1 G S
Ku;i1r~ (.umpur NGW STf~t1I'I'S TIh;LS in l:n~lish 24 Feb 80 P 17 _
- ('c ~ x ~ J ~R STAR~ Sat. - Police have etepped
up action against dadah addicts by raid-
ing known dadah hangouts ih Kuala
K~dah~ seven mile~a from here.
OCPD Bup t. Haji~ ~
Kaeeim bin Yunus aaid 8 mecLcal check-up. -
today a total ot 4~0 people He eald thie wae the
tn'. the town have tleen ~ time police carried
icreeaed. ont a lar e operation `
He said police de- ag ~ d~~ addicte in
� te?ined 19 people eue- Kue1a Kedah, following =
pacted to be!dadah ad- nume'roue comp lainta -
dlcte. Another three were ~8 P~P~e about ad-
detained for not carrylng ~
their identity caMi and He eaid 160 ofticera
tour more were aum- ~ men took part in the
= moaed for traffic of- ~'bour operatlon which
lences. began at 8 p.m. on Thure-'
Ha~i Kaeaim eaid the ~~aii Kaeaim eaid eim-
19 people were taken to
the General Hoepital for operationa would be
carrted out in Al,or Star to
tlueh out dadah addicta.
lleroin Trial -
hur~lri I.um~ur NGW STRAI"CS TIMGS in English 27 Feb 80 p 10
' SEREMBAN, Tuee. - 1Y78, police found three
- ('I' e x t] A pisetic bag contaln� pac kete ot heroin in a
In6 three packete o! bottle wrapped In a .
6eroln wsa found 61d� plaeHc ba6, hldden In
den ln a televtslon set the televielon eet.
darlns s polfce rafd on Inep. Othman was
s houee, !he $eselons testitytng at the trlal of
. Coart 6ere was told to- g, p~~pp8n w6o fs
d~ c6ar6ed with havtag
~nep. Ot~map YusoH 9.74 arammea ot hero-
d t6e Part Dicl~sonpo- ~o, -
Uce ssW tha! during parthi
t6e rald on the house in not, Rulltypgn pleaded
Kwmpun Indla, Suklt
Pelan~o~, Port Hesrln was ad-
- Dlokwn, on Dec. 29, Journed to~arah 14.
Lif-e Senrence Appealed
Kuala Lumpur NGW STRAITS TIMES in En~lish 29 Feb 80 p 6
[Text]
- KUALA LUMPUR, at 14.s5 p.m. on Sept. 20, Fiigh Court judge erred tioned etatement, thera
Thure. - The Federal 19T6 with two othera atill ia admitting Ta~'i cau� wrge no othar evidence to
Court todsy reserved 8t lsrge. tioned etatemen~ connect Taa ,with the
iudgmentonanappeal nitted~onea other fatkd t~,o~~l~siderjthat would not h1~.veebeen ~
b y a c o n a t r u c t i o n ~~,se ot trattieking in Insp. I,iaa bin Abu Hakar Q~led.
worker~ Tan Too Kia, Z~,q of heroitt wa~ not called upon to Dpp ~ Mah Weng
_ 30, w}to was eentenced ~ the same time' and teetily at a"trial�within-' Kwai replied thst Inop.
to life impriaonment place at the cloee ot Ehe a-tsial" An Tan'e allega� ~y~ ~allad during
- for dadah trafficking. prosscution's case. tion that he ~as ae� tha trial proper but was
The Seremban High ~e appe~ t~gy w,~ ~sulted. " not cro4~�examined on
Court had on March 29 heard by fhe Lord Prea!- He added that Insp. ~y allegatlon of aeeault
lait yenr tound him gu11- dent, Tun Mohamed Su!- M~eng Wan, who re� by the detence.
ty of trattleking !n 9SIb n~ Justioe Wan 6u1� ~~e statament, did ~,&rgued that !f 1`an
16u: (16 ]ciloe) ot raw eiman aad Mr Justice Ib� it in Hokkien and not ~n aesaulted, he
- op!um at the ~unction of r~~ Teochew, whtch was Wouldhavehadfnformed
Jslaa Labu end the Fed� Couneel Mr Rarpal T~y ~~ve dialoct. ~e other polloe olHcers
eral Highway, Seremban, g~ sybmitted thet the M~' ~'P~ ~ingh eaic~ ~ even th~�~aua~dtate.
- thett without the cau-
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(;rimes I,inkecl tc~ Drugs
h~~,il:i li~~lriit li~)I~NI:II I;UI,Lf?'CIN in I?n~li5h 2 I~ch 8Q 2
~ I~: x~~~~ r t ti ~ KUCH (NG.-Armed robbery, thefts, up (rom 1 G in 19)S to 14 laat yeu and
extortion and dcug offencea arc all on a total of 63 people had been detained
the increafe in the Fint Divi~ion. for drug oftencec, many of them fint
And unior police officen blame.,4he; offenden.:Of the 64~,ieroin wa~ found on
crime incrcase on unemployed yaung 'S9 of tbem~ -two were carrying ganja
peoplc fnd drug nddicn. and the other two rvere carrying opium -
~fr ~Khoo aaid mat of the crimInal or pilL. _
cases reported to the police inwlved Mr Khoo attributed the inereaae
drug addi~tt who either stole, robbed ~n drug addiction w two main futon
or extorted money in an ~ attempt to - the lack of jobi for young p~ople
feed their addiction, leavin~ ~chool and the movemellt of
- He said extortion casn had gone eai~ly-miluenced young ptopla trom
' rural areas into the towns when they
could faH prey to divg pu~hen who
poied as friend~.
Dru~ Sentences
F:un I r~ I~~~ I;i i C BO[:~GO BULLET iN in Engl i sh 23 Feb 80 p 18 '
( I~:x e� r~~ L s~ KUCHIN(:. - A Mohamad worked for In another Kuching
young man who claitned three months as a sea- dntg case, 26-year-old
his father did not care man on the Kiong Seng labourer Moham?nad Sa-
for him was introduced p1Y~n8 between Sarawak hari b1n Nek, alias Mega,
' to drugs by fellow aoldias and Indonaia and then of Lada Pedas, was fined
soon after he joined t(1~ a/ a�seeurity guard with $250 for possessing hera
Malaysian Army. :r;~;~ Sarawak Motor Industries in,
; ~$efore ..Kuching bist ~fore joining the army prohationai�y Inspec-
' rict Court was 23-yea~ where he was introduced tor Fatimah binte Eden,
' old Mohamad bin Za- to drugs and left after a Prosecuting, said that on
karia, alias Henry Lai fcw months becnuse he August 29 last year Sa- -
Boon Seng, of no fixed was honxsick; he has hari was detained ar '
address, who wa4 sent to nvice been in Satawak taken to Kuching central
a drug rehabilitatian cen- Mental Hospital's detoxi- police station where po-
tre for six months for fication centre for treat� lice found a straw con-
possessinR dniRs. ment. taining heroin bebween
his buttocks. ~ -
Magistrate Encuk Cl~
ment Eddy was told Sa-
hari had two previous
convictions.
5300 -
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PAKISTAN
COUNTRY'S ANTIDRUG MEASURES EXAMINED
Lahore THE PAKISTAN TIMES in English 13 Apr 80 p 4 -
[Text] In a committee of the Economic and Social Council, a UN organ,
- Pakistan has supported the formuTation of an international strategy of ac-
. tion against illicit drug production, trafficking and abuse. Signatory
to an international convention against drug-abuse, Pakistan is in the fore-
front of countries taking serious measures to root out the causes of this
modern-day curse. The Pakistan Narcotics Control Board, set up to co-
. ordinate efforts with other international bodies working against the spread
of noxious addiction, has been active compiling information about the pat- ~
- terna of cultivation and consumption of such traditional intoxicants as
canabia and opium. Anti-narcotic legislations have already been enforced
_ and last year a total clampdown on the sale and consumption of opium was
- nothing short of a daring and courageous measure against drug-abuse. Simi- _
larly, a strictly observed ban on the cultivation of the two well-known
herbs over an extensive area of the country has virtually put an end to
- easy availability of narcotic drugs. It has been disclosed by the Paki-
stan Narcotics Control Board that 80 per cent of the opium and charas pro- _
duced is domestically consumed and, since the ban, both the production
and the consumption have been drastically reduced. In the Pun~ab alone
thousands o� beds in different hospitals were arranged to receive opium-
addicts during the weaning perfod. Most of them have recovered and joined
the masses of normal humanity. _
However, any complete measure will require more financial and organisational
resource than Pakistan can muster as a developing country. It is common
- knowledge that the Northern Areas of the country were once a part of a larger
region comprising Tibet, Ladakh and Sinkiang where the British colonisers
had encouraged cultivation of poppy. Mass addiction to opium in China which
led to what is termed as opium wars, was managed on the strength af these
'nurseries' of opium. The Northern areas in Pakistan today are in some
cases the most difficult of access and contain some of the least frequented
- regions of the world. The people who inhabit theni eke out a very precari- -
ous economic existence and, more often than not, depend on poppy-cultivation
- exclusively for their survival. To implement the ban on poppy-cultivation,
- some kind of compensation or crop-substitution will have to be made
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= avzilabl e to them which is a measure requi rin~, the kii:d of f inanci al � ay-- -
' out Pakistan carinot afford. Recently, director of the Vienna-bast.~'. `~N t~~n~
:'o~ Drug Abuse Control ilad occasion to observe the campaign agai^.~?- ;~~:;?T~;r-
cultivaCion in Pakistan and expr2ssed himself satisfied with the s~:c�_:ess
of the oPeration. He ~aas nonetheless made c.onecioua of the f,~ct th~t r.~ -
considerable success could be achiev~d in the Northern Areas of the ce~i:~~i;
without international participation. Given the alarming state of acidic-
_ tion in the West which actually pt~shes the poorer Third World states lc:t,
problems related to poppy cultivation, a concerted assault on the complex
economi~ factors would be most advisable. In Pa~c.istan, ideological cor~::~l-
erations go against the production and consumption of narcotics whict; :i~
itself is a favourable factor in the campaign. -
~ CSO: 5300
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PAKISTAN
BRIEFS
OPIUM, CHARAS SEIZED--Attock, April 23--The Attock Khurd police, in a _
raid have recovered more than 1400 grams of charas and 100 grams of opium -
from the possession of Ashraf resident of Kanwer Garh District Gujranwala
and arrested him under Hodood and Excise Act, According to the police -
the accused was travelling in a Rawalpindi bound bus. (Text~ ~Islamabad
THE MUSLIM in English 24 Apr 80 p 6]
- NARCOTICS SMUGGLER HELD--The staff of Pakistan Narcotics Control Board
apprehended early yesterday morning a young educated resident of Karachi
while attempting to smuggle out contraband drug to Amsterdam. He was
caught by the Deputy Assistant Director PNCB, shortly before boarding an
amsterdam-bound PIA flight, The examination of baggage of accused Ahmad
- Sadiq, son of an Executive Engineer, had resulted in the recovery of 3700
morphine tablets and 80 grams morphine powder valued at about Rs. S lakh
- in the international underground market. The accused had concealed the
= contraband in "Romeo Juliat talcum powder and Brute shampoo packs." The
PNCB sources suspect that Ahmad Sadiq was acting as a courier for an
' international gang of narcotic smugglers headed by a Pakistani in Amsterdam _
and wilo is stated to be in this illegal trade for the last 12 years. He -
was recently released from a Copenhagen jail after five years. The PNCB
official told APP that this gang aZso include some foreign smugglers. He
said that international police was being contacted for the arrest of ~ang
- leader in Amsterdam. His name is being kept confidential so as not to
provide him an opportunity to escape. He said that the accused has con-
fes~ed to have undertaken a couple of similar visits abroad in the past
few months and he is suspected to have been used for taking drugs to London
also. Further investigation is in progress.--APP [Text~ ~Karachi MORNING ~
- NEWS in English 19 Apr 80 p 5~ .
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- LAHORE OPIUM HAUL--Exci~e stai:S s~ `_~c~3 r'G grams opi .~-.ae lakh
from the GTS Bus Stand on Friday. One person, Nazir Ahmad ~f I~iu....~:.-ra
was arrested. This is the bigbest opium haul in the city seized f!Fter i*_~� _
prohibition under the Islamic Law. The raid. was conducted on an inrotm~~tic~. ~
= by the Excise Inspector Mian Riaz Ahmad. The accused Nazir was carr:'_-,~.; -
a trunk full of opium when he was hauled up. The small pieces of op='-i:- ~
- were conceiled in plastic bags. The contraband opium, it was stated, waF
being trafficking in from the opium cultivated areas for its sale in the
province of Pun~ab. A case under the Islamic Law ~as registered again~t the
' accused. [Text] [Lahore THE PAKISTAN TIMES in English 12 Apr SO p 8]
OPIiJl~f SEIZED--Bannu Folice and Excise Staff during a surprise raid, re.. - _
ered 110 gi~ns opium from one Umai� �aman, 5 grams charas from Sultan, ~n .
- another raid Mr Osmatullah Khan Marwat Excise Inspector Bannu recover~:c;
28 grams charas from Mohammad Afsar Khan. Police has arrested tw~ i~~~:~1� _
ous out-laws from different places during surprise raid. [Text] [Pes.laci~~'
KHYBER MAIL in English 16 Mar 80 p 3]
- CSO: 5300
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P~{~.t.? ~~tylNLs
NA'1'ION'S ANTIDRUG PUSHING DRIVE WIDENED
rtanila PEiILIPPINES DAILY EXPRESS in English lb Mar 80 p 1 _
[Text~ President Ttarcos further widened yesterday the government campaign
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~ ' - . ~r..._. +1i:~~'e~~:
' . F.o~-v:. wr~ ti
Some of the equipm~nt belonging to a laboratory for the processing of
cocaine discovered yesterday by members of the agency for the Criminal In-
vestigation Division~ The underground insta.llation was discovered thanks -
_ to an explosion that occurred there Thursday night, durin~; which two of
_ the drug traffickers suffered burns, although they did manage to escape. _
11, 466 -
CSO: 5300 _
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coLOr~za
~ COCAIIJ~ SMUGGLII~ IN CO~CIAZ LARD TII1S
Bogo~a EL r,5~'LCTADOR in Spanish 19 Feb 80 p 17-A
- (Text] At Eldorado Airport, members of the Narcotics Squad of the agency
representing the Criminal Investigation Division yesterday discovered
40 kg of very pure cocaine that had been packed and sealed in two cans of
lard,
- The two cans, which in turn hati been packed in a case and covered with
vicuna hides, arrived in a plane from Bolivia as ordina.ry caxgo and~ ac-
cording to the label they displayed, they contained liquefied, edible
"Halcon" brand laxd, a product manufactured by the firm of Mezzadri Her-
- manos, whose main office ia in Buenos Aires, Argentina., a company which
naturally must be totally uninvolved in the case~ -
- Supposed Recipients
The cocaine was discovered as a result of a series of clues found by
~ capable Depaxtment of Justice i.nvestigators who, operating with the con-
viction that the cans did not contain what was indicated on their labels, _
- proceeded to open them to iind the valuable cargo of alkaloid~
The case in which the cans arrived was :!abeled with the name and address -
of a firm supposedly located in Ibague, a name and an address that will be
verified despite the suspicion that they are fictitious.
The cocaine was weig~ed and analyzed by Depaxtment of Justice officials
who, once they nave met all the leg~.l requirements, will proceed to de-
stroy it and go on with the appropriate investigation. _
New Success -
Yesterday's blow was the second big one the Justice Department has dealt
the "drug-trafficking ma.fias,"since, as this daily ha.s reported, another ~
big shipment of the alkaloid has been seized in the Department of Meta, -
several laboratories for the processing of the product have been dis-
covered on more coca and marihuana plantations and four people have been
~ captured,
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A total of Lt0 kg of cocaine Were found in cans as shown in this picture
taken shortly after its arrival in E1 Dorado in a plane coming from -
- Bolivia. Packed in a case and covered with hides, the cans were ad-
dressed to a presumed firm with its main office in Ibague.
- 11~.66
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PLAIVE, TRAFFICIi~tS SEIZ'r~ IN SANTA MARTA
= Bo~ota ~L E~~'~CTA~OR in S`panisiz 21 Feb 80 p 11-A
- [iext~ Santa Marta (by Walter Martinez)--An American pla.ne and its crew
have been captured along ~rith several Colombians and a large auantity of
- :narihuana, as well as several vehicles, in a spectaculax operation carried. _
out by the Ar~ly in El DificiZ,
The action was the responsibility of units of the "Poop" Battalion with
headquarters in Va.lledupas, which thus completed a thorough check it ha.d -
been rnaking of tha,t region during ti~e past 2 weeke.
_ ti grey llU-4"( with American license number N-46s2-T, ~;rewed by two Ameri- _
cans who fell into the hands of the Ari~y a.long with nine Colombians, wa:~
captured on a landing strip the "Andian" Oil Ccmpany has in E1 Dificil, F
_ the capital of the m~icipality of Ariguani.
I-toreover, 60 packages of marihuana, two full cases of Lennun 714 pills,
a Nissan camper with licerise plate number ~x-5992, a S~~zuki camper with
~ plate number PK-5767 and a tractor, in addition to several tanks of avia-
tion gasoline and 300~000 ~,esos in cash were seized.
Also, the aircraft was equipped with a modern, hi~-powered radio trans- _
m.i.tter and vaxious devices used in transporting drugs. _
'I'r.e operation was concl,lded T!aesday morning, but Magdalena authorities
were hardly informed of the ma.tter this morning due tn the fact that the -
prisoners - 11 in all and everythin~ that ha.d been seized were taken
- to Valledupax, while the plane is to be transferred to Baxranquilla. _
It is estimated tha.t the goods seized during this military operation axe
' worth over 25 milli~n pesos,
11,466 =
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~ COLOMBIA -
BRIEFS
ANTIDRUG ARMY UNITS WLTHDR.AWN--The national goverr?ment is going to withdraca ~
Army units now combating the drug traffic in Guajira and will entrust the `
mission to a special police force. This measure, which will be adopted due ~
= to the danger~ of corruption Army,intervention in this kind of work present,
was announced by Minister of Defense Gen Luis Carlos Camacho Leyva to
WAS'~IINGTON POST reporter Charles Krause. Now, after devoting about 3,500
soldiezs to this task on Guajira for several months, the government has
- decided to remove the Army from the campaign against the marihuana and
_ cocaine traffic. [Excerpt] [Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 27 Feb 80 pp 1-A,
6-A] _
- 11,466
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- AFGHANISTAN
- - BRIEFS -
RAW OPIUM SEIZED--Lashkargah, April 11, (Bakhtar)--187 kgs of raw opiuni
was seized in Khanshin district of Helma.nd province -recently but the
_ lorry driver and owner have fled. The contraband was handed to the local
revenue officer. ~Text~ ~ICabul KABUL NEW TIMES in English 13 !~pr 80 p 4~ -
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J NIGERIA
IETAILS ON 'AFRICAN CONNECxION' GNEN
Paris JEUNP AFRIQUE in French 16 Apr 80 pg 70-71
[Article by Sylviane Kam~ra,: "Naive Suitcasea of the African Connect3.on
_ [Text] "When I arrived at Roissy, I picked up my txo suitcases and g rrent
~ to the 'nothing to declare' exit. I was almost there trhen the customs
= inspectors called me. I pretended not to hear, but they got mad and told
aie to open my b~tga. I was terrified."
"You Need it... _
There xas reason for this. When M.S. opened his txo s~zitcases~ the cus-
- toma inspectors discovered 5(7 pa,ckets of gra$s~ tightly packed togrether.
Just like that. x~.thout even a single ahirt to hide them and malce the
_ bwgy ou$toms inr,pector believe that there xas nothing suspect. This Was
_ pure folly. Nevertheless~ M.S. Was not the only one to arrive one fine
morning in Paris xith his bags stuffed with m~rihuana,. According to the
- Centra,l Narcotics Office~ these carriers of very special auitcases come
every ciay from Africa. In 19790 ~he French police a,rrested 244 of them.
HQHever~ for these men c,~,ugh+, how many got through xithout problems~ with
= nothing to d~clare? It ie imposeible to jrnow. On the other hand~ what -
is certain is tha,t 98 percent of the cannabis grass b~ought into F~ance
comes from Black Africa. If xe look at the origin of the traffickers
arrested, Ke can Iuiox exactly from which countries-~Nigeria first
(74 traffickers a.rrested), next Zaire (47~, Sene 1(33)~ Ghana (26),
_ Ma.li (21), Cameroan (13) and the Ivory Coast (10~ -
This Af~ican connection is quite new, be~x~eiy 2 yeans old. Until 1977 -
France used ha~shish made from cannabis resin (three times more toxic than
= grass), imported almoet exclusively from Colombia. There Ha,s very little
- consumption, to ~udg~e from the qua,ntities seized--1~209 kgs in 197^. In
- 1979~ the figure increased to 2,677 kgs. For the firat time grass traf-
fic surpassed that of hashish= that same year~ 2,470 kgs of the latter -
= kere confiscated. Now~ 65 percent of the dru~ users q~,~estioned by F`rench
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police smoke grass; demand increased, the supply followed. tis cannabis
needs a warm cli~nate to grow, Africa was the perfect, choice place.
For several yc;~a, in Nigeria ar~d Senegal in particulax~ cannabia wa,e
_ discroetly grown for local needs. It was only necessary to extend and
increase the field$ to reach the level of exportation. In Senegal~ the
space for cannabie amounta to severa.l hundred hectares. The peasants
perceived that they clearly earned much more gro~ring cannabis than rice
- or peanuts. You can sell a kilo of gr~ss for 15,000 CFA francs (300 FF)
xhile you rri.ll only receive 41.50 CFA francs (82 centimes) for a kg of
- peanuts.... When the leaves are gathered and dried~ the p~asant se13s ~hem
_ to r~`aolQSalers responsible for sending them to the large cities, then
- abroad.
This is where the folklore begins. While European and American
tra.ffickers ha.ve become ma,sters in the art of concealment, the Africans
_ Bhow a la.ck of axareneas (or of subtlety) which leaves you astonished.
~ No suitcases with false bottoms~ no bags ~rith secret pockets~ ,just suit-
cases and trunks purchased the night before from Leba.nese me2chants=
it is enough if the locks work. They pile it in--20.30 kgs in one, 4-0 in
anotherf this is the minimum to make a substantial profit because gra,ss
is sold much more cheaply thRn the other drugs. In Paris, the Central
- Narcotics has, on several occasions~ seized up to 100 kgs divided up in
two or three suitcases. Sometimes~ they are more subtle. In Marseilles~
on 12 Maxch~ the custo~s inspectors discovered 11 kgs of grass coming
from Togo, hidden in the false bottom of a carton containing African
- ob,jets d'art. The next week, the same method was used for 12 kgs of grass -
from Benin, Even more clever--the customs ad.ministration at Roissy
recently aeized two armcha.irs well stuffed with cannabis.
Then there xere two unaccompanied suitcases in freight and even large _
~ metal canteens full to the brim. Some well-organized traffickers avail
~ themselves of the ser~rices of airline company employees. On 24 Masch, -
- the Centra,l Narcotics Office seized a large shipment. Alerted by an
informer, the inspect~is went to a house in the Pax�is suburbs 3ust in time .
to intercept three suitcases containing 1$4 kgs of ma.ri.huana from -
_ bbid~an. Escorted by two Ivorians, the suitcases were taken from the air-
port by an Air France ma,nager. With the wholesale pric~ of a kg of grass ,
at 3,500 French francs (1'75,000 CFA francs), the tKO traffickers expected
to make 644,000 F`rench francs (32 million CFA francs) from their trip.
Since a~am~ retail, costs 8 to 10 French fl^ancs, the succession of
intarmediaries would have also had their shaxe of the cake. However,
the deal xas a failure and the network xas up a creek. _
Ca,n we truly speak of a netxork~ a connection? "There is no African
connection any more than there is a l~'~ench connection in the sense of an
organized netKOrk," stated Mr Le Mouel~ the head of -the Central Offiae
-
for Narcoiics Tra,ffic Control. "It involves sma.ll groups which act on
the3r own behalf. We can not go ba.ck mcuch fwrther." There is a reason:
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most traffickers caught are only--if they can be believed--leg men.
There are txo types. Those--in the ma~ority--xho 3rnow nothing: "Someone
gave me the suitcasosi I did not know xhat they cantained. Someone Nhom
I did not knox xas to contact me." So much for the netxork. Others
acknoxledge they took the risk for money. They, tao~ kno~ nothing of
their "employer." Sometimes they are telling the truth.
...We Sell It to You"
Finally~ there are the real traffickers xho buy~ transport and sell for -
their oxn benefit: "Only 1 in 10 admits to owning xhat he ia carrying,"
specified Commis~ioner Gallo of the Paris Narcotics brigade. "It is
difficult to go much further. The central office works with the Interpol
departments of the countries involved but the information we receive is
vague. Real traffickers take precautions." Thus, the leg men are
ca.ught and sentenced~ on an averag+e~ to 2 to 5 years in prison.
In Africa itself, the struggle against trafficking is still in its
infancy. Senega,l~ where the problem is becoming more and more acute, is
making a special effort. In 19'79~ the gendas:~.srie destroyed neaxly
20 tons of cannabis. In Max~ch, the police acquired a pack of 15 dogs
specially trained for drug detection. Information campaigns have been
l.s6unched~ T+ithout any result. For a long time~ the supplier country xas -
considered the guilty party and the consumer country, the victim. The
lack of precautions surrounding African traffic shoxs~ moreover, how
much more~ in the rainds of the leg men and the suppliers~ it resemblea
a b~usiness rather tha.n real smugglings "You need it~ xe will sell it to
~au." In the past, plastic sandals or toliet soap were smuggled from one
country to an~ther. Z'oday it is drugs. Currently, there is a quick and
large return. In fact~ as �he Narcotics Office ac~owledged, "it is the
duty of the consumer country to take adequate measures to decrease the
demand." That, hoxever~ is ano~her story....
- COPYRIGHT: Jeune Afrique GRUPJIA 1980 -
9479
- cso : 5300
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AUSTRIA
BRIEFS _
HASHISH SMUGGLER ARRESTED--On 21 April Auatrian police arrested at Schwechat ~
airpor~ 24-year-old Lebaneae citizen J. Gabrael, after having discovered in
his poeseseion 10 kilos of hashish. The Lebanese is the 40th drug smuggler
to be arrested thia year by Schwechat police, who on theae occasions con-
- �iecated a total of 80 kilos af drugs--hashish, marihuana, heroin and LSD.
[AU241339 Vfenna KURIER in German 24 Apr 80 p 17]
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- CYPRUS
- DRUGS SEIZED IN FAI~fAGUSTA, POLITICAL OVERTONES NOTED
Officials Seize Narcotics -
Nicosia HALKIN SESI in Turkish 25 Apr 80 p 1
[Excerpt] During the search in Famagusta of a London-bound TIR truck that
had been loaded under the supervision.of customs officials, a Nicosia police
team and customs officials acting on a British tip seized narcotic material
having an estimated market value of 100 million Turkish lira. The material--
thought to be morphine base, heroin, and hashish--was concealed in 400 to
500 cheeae and olive tins, as well as in small nylon bags placed in hidden
_ compartmenta under the tin and galoshes. Handguns were also found in the -
tins. In addition, nine or ten persons were arrested. Thirty kilos in -
- all were seized. It is reported that this smuggling operation was the =
largest to date in the TFSC.
Political Implications Given
- Nicosia BOZKURT in Turkish 25 Apr 80 p 1
[Excerpt] A Faxnagusta official told the Cyprus News Agency that the inci-
dent has political overtones. He said, "It has been determined that the
narcotics were brought in from a Middle Eastern country that produces opium
and is known to have close ties with the Greek Cypriot Government. The
material was introduced into our sector with the aim of vilifying the TFSC.
The Greek Cypriots also want to ship the narcotics off the island through
the north with the same aim.
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY -
BRIEFS
HEROIN RING BROKEN UP--Stuttgart, 26 Mar--Swiss and West German police atith--
orities have broken up a heroin ring which had been active in both countrle~.
~ According to a Wednesday statement by police headquarters in Ravensburg,
- 12 alleged heroin pushers have been taken into custody during the past few
days. Arrest warrants have been issued against 11 of them, 7 from the
Ravensburg area and 2 each from the Kempten region (Bavaria) and from Swit-
zerland. The ring allegedly brought large quantities of heroin, mostly
from Thailand, into the FRG, selling most of it in Switzerland. There, black
market prices for heroin are considerably higher than in the FRG. [Text] _
[Zurich NEUE ZUERCHER ZEITUNG in German 28 Ma.r 80 p 5] 9011
HEROIN CONSUI~TION ESTIMATED--Bonn, 26 Mar--According to estimates of the
- Federal Ministry of the Interior, at least 45,000 heroin addicts in the
FRG consumed 5.4 tons of the drug last year. A responae by the Federal
- Government to a"minor inquiry" of the CDU/CSU Bundestag faction iesued
Wedneaday in Bonn, stated that one has to atart with the realization that
since 1977 the annual rate of increase has been around 1 ton.~ The importa-
tion of cannabisin 1979, on the other hand, was below 1 ton. Other narcotics
play a minor role in the FRG. Corresponding to the increasing consumption, -
the amount of heroin confiscated in the past 10 years has risen from half a
k3lograan in 1970 to 20%.3 kilograms. An unusually large increase was also
registered in the case of cocaine, where in 1979 17.2 kilograms were confis- _
cated. The quantities of cannabis confiscated have fluctuated since 1960
between 4 and close to 10 kilograms. On the other har.d, the authorities _
found in 1979 only 38,132 units of LSD. Ten years before, it has been 178,925. _
The development is retrogressive also in the case of morphine base and un-
processed opium. Since according to statements by the Federal Government,
- the center of poppyseed cultivation, from which heroin is made, has shifted
~ from Southeast Asia to the Middle East, the FRG Government is focusing its
international efforts on reducing the cultivatinn in Pakistan and eliminat- _
ing illegal laboratories in Turkey. This month a Bonn team of experts in
Pakistan is to negotiate a relevant program financed by the FRG Government.
In Ankara, Federal Minister of Finance Matthoefer arranged in February for
talks with experts o~. further cooperation in this area. [Text] [Zurich NEUE -
ZUERCHER ZEITUNG in German 28 Mar 80 p 6] 9011
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FINLAND
AUTHORITIES STUDY CHARGES PHYSICIANS SOLD DRUGS ILLEGALLY _
Helsinki HELSINGIN SANOMAT in Finnish 19 Mar 80 p 11 -
[Text] It is suspected that drug dealers discovered in Helsinki bought
pill prescriptions from doctors with stolen gold, silver, furs, alcohol -
and tobacco. The Narcotics Police believe that the abusers of inedicines -
have acquired hundreds of thousands of Dolorex pills from these dealers.
Chief Physician Juhana Idanpaan-Heikkila from the Central Medical Board
regards the appearance on the black market of the narcotic medicines as
a serious problem. While the medicinal use of strong pills has been suc- ~
cessfully reduced, abuse has been increasing proportionally. The Central
_ Medical Board has already started its own investigation into the Dolorex
case.
Helsinki Narcotics Police got the first whiff of the Dolorex case more than
6 months ago. Since then, a group of 10 men has been investigating the
- sale of the pills.
"The scope of the business was of course a surprise to us. We have known -
that these pills have been pilfere~ for sale to abusers for many years
already, but we did not believe that the dealers could have acquired such -
quantities of inedicines," explained Police Inspector Lauri Vuorio, the
chief investigator on the case.
The suspected ringleaders of the illegal trafficking were arrested on
Tuesday [18 Mar]. They are a married couple, both pensioners, the man
born in 1926 and the woman in 1923. A Helsinki male suspected of the similar
sale of pills had been arrested earlier.
"The doctors involved in the case must have understood that the strong
- pain killers prescribed to this couple and to other dealers were not being
- legitimately used. This couple, for example, started collecting prescrip-
tions as early as in 1974," Vuori stated.
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Doctor Ordered "Hot Stufr"
The suspected drug dealers used some of the acquired pills themselves Pnd
sold the rest to drug abusers, mainly in the Helsinki area, at 25 to 30
marks per pill. The pills Y~ave also been sold elsewhere in Finland.
The chief of the Narcotics Police, Inspector Torsti Koskinen, says that
tens of people are involved in the sale of pills. in addition to the five
doctors suspected of drug crimes, numerous other doctors have been ques-
tioned. However, tl~ey are believed to have written prescriptions in good
faith for dealers using aliasea.
One case which came to light involved a doctor suspected of having exch~x�-~'
- his prescriptior,~ for stolen goods that he had ordered from the dr~ig d~~..~"..
Under questioning, the doctor said he had only accepted "presents."
"The buyers of the drugs include abusers of all ages. The Dolorex pills
have had a central place in the sale of stror~g drugs during the last few
- years," inspector Koskinen stated.
Dolorex is an extremely strong pain killer, nearly comparable with morphine.
- Abused, it creates a feeling of well-being but also causes very strong
_ withdrawal symptoms.
"These symptoms force the user to get more medicine, and the cycle continue~,
The wide abuse of the Dolorex pills is know. On the other hand, there
are some groups of patients, especially those with cancer, whose care -
necessitates use of strong pain killers," Chief Physician Idanpaan-Heikkila
fr.om the Central Medical Board explained.
Precise Regulations on Narcotic Medicines
Dolorex is used in some countries for maintenance care of incurable narco-
maniacs. There are also a few patients in the Hesperia [mental] Hospital -
in Helsinki undergoing similar treatment.
"It would be worthwhile to consider whether in Finland too many narco- .
maniacs, maybe 50 or so, should continue to be given the medicine in ques-
- tion when no means of rehabilitation have worked," stated Idanpaan-Heikkila. _
The Central Medical Board has in recent years started to impose stricter
regulations on prescribing narcotic medicines. Doctors, for instance, -
have to make certain of the identity of the patients, and of their need
for the medicine; the pills can only be bought from pharmacies in the
doctor's home locality; and the prescriptions must be kept on file for
several years in the pharmacies.
"It has been possible to reduce prescriptions for narcotic medicines in
this way, but obviously there is no way of stopping a11 abuse. The number
of abusers is small, but regardless of its size, the group is very con-
" spicuous." explained Idanpaan-Heikkila.
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The Central Medical Board has been observing the investigations in th~
Dolorex case, now made public by the Narcotics Police. Idanpaan-Heikkila
- says the Central Medical Board will initiate disciplinary action against
the doctors if they are convicted in court of criminal activity.
In addition, the Central Medical Board has already initiated its own
investigations directed at the pharmacies.
9571
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FINLAND
BRIEFS
AMPHETAMINES IN HELSINKI--After an interval of a year, amphetamines have
- again been found in Finland. The Helsinki Criminal Police uncovered an
attempt to smuggle 60 grams into the country. Last month, a smuggling
scheme was devised between a 22-year-old salesman, a 24-year-old store
- room helper, and a 21-year-old female disc jockey. The store room helper'~ _
car was sold and the money was used to buy amphetamines from a country
which the police do not yet want to make public. The Helsinki Criminal
Police conducted a search of the disc j ockey's flat on 1 January and found
amphetamines in a beauty bag and an electric panel box. The substance
was still in the process of being put into capsules. The store room
helper was jailed, the salesman was arrested, and the woman was set free.
[Text] [Helsinki WSI SUOMI in Finnish 14 Feb 80 p 5] 9571
FIRST WSIKAUPUNKI DRUG ARRESTS--The municipal court has sentenced several _
y ouungsters from Uusikaupunki for refining drugs from plants, evidently
: hemp, grown in f lower pots. The first drug case ever to occur in
Uusikaupunki involved 17 defendants. The leader was found to be an un-
skilled laborer, and he was given a conditional ~ail sentence of 2 years.
The others got away with fines of 80 to 630 marks. There were several
young persons among the accused. [Text] [Helsinki UUSI SUOMI in Finnish
23 ~'eb 80 p S] 9571
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FRANCE
HEROIN SEIZURE, dt1ERDOSE DEATHS NOTED -
Paris L'HUMANITE in French 4 Apr 80 p 12 _
[Article: "A Murderous Traffic: 2.8 Kilos of Heroin Confiscated at Roissy
Last Wednesday; 129 Deaths Through Overdose in 1979"] _
[TextJ Enough heroin for 100,000 doses--2.8 kilos--
_ was seized last Wednesday at the Roissy airport, and
the five conveyers arrested. A good catch. Bu~ not
- qu_te enough to speak of a"destroyed network"...
Since the dismantling of the "French Connection," drug .
traffic has managed to adapt itself.
Early two days ago, the five disembarked from a olane arriving from Bangkok.
The Roissy border police were waiting for them. For several weeks, one of
- them, Meki Amoura, 35, the leader of the group, suspected of drug traffic,
had been trailed.
Although without a job, he was living very comfortably and he was known to
make frequent trips to Thailand. But they wanted to catch him red-handed.
= So, they let him make one last trip to the Far East, and nabbed him upon
izis return. With him, two girls who were helping smuggle the white powder,
and two escorts were arrested. Later on, a small dealer connected with the
group was also questioned.
One gram of heroin se11s for about 200 or 300 Francs on the Paris market.
Meki Amoura and his accomplices could have lived happily for some time
with the 2.8 kilos hidden in their luggage. However, their arrest will ~
not hinder drug traffic. Heroin which, like all so-called "hard" drugs,
is very expensive even in very small amounts, is an easy source of profit.
Import traffic has never been as flourishing as it is now.
Last year, the Roissy customs have confiscated 65 kilos of heroin, and
the narcotics squad must admit that France is inundated with all sorts of
drugs, still more so than before the "French Connection" was dismantled.
_ This is because drug traffickers have known how to adapt to circumstances.
The big shots are now chosing to remain in the shadow, to multiply the
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number of go-betweens, and to speculate on the greed of small smugglers
and snall dealers who take all the risks.
" The police, nowever, do not seem to have adapted with the same boldness. _
True, controls at the border are more strict and sometimes they yield good
resul~s. True, "hit operations" here and there will dismantle a local deal-- _
er and user network. But it is very much as if one attempted to gain con-
' trol over a multinatior.al trust by taking over its smallest subsidiaries:
a waste of efforts.
The police of CEF member countries are beg~nning to pool their efforl~~.
The Central Bureau for the Control of Narcotics Traffic has an office in
- Bangkok. G~t there is probably a lack of political will to track the
traffic ~o its roots. Experience has shown that drug business and plain
ordinary business are often connected.
So, in the absence of any effec;tive control, drug is increasingly becoming
a common ware offered in all circles and all over France. The result:
accordinq to an INSERM [National ~nstitute of Health and Medical Resear,:.., -
survey, 1 m ale high-school student out of 6, and 1 female high-school -
student out of 10 are reported to have experimented at least once with a
- soft or hard drug. The number of :P::iously intoxicated drug addicts has
increased more than tenfold in 10 years--their number is now estimated at
25,000--and last year has seen an unprecedented record of deaths throv.gh
overdose: 129. -
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- MEMBER OF TURKISH DRUGS GANG MURDERED, OPERATED IN FRG
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= Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 19 Mar 80 p 3
[Article by Leif Dahlin: "Dope Suspect Confesses to Murder. Questioned
about the Death Fire in Restaurant Monte Carlo"]
[Text] The pizzeria owner Hirant Selekman from Stockholm, who disapp~ared ~
without a trace from his home in January of 1978, was murdered. A 35-year-
_ old Turkish fellow-citizen, who was arrested in Goteborg on Thursday of _
last week for a narcotics violation, has confessed to the mur~er. This man
will also be told that he is suspected of the arson in restaurant Nonte ~
_ Carlo in Stockholm in March of 1977 when iour people died in the fire. He -
is also suspected of having fired with live ammunition during a distur-
bance in a restaurant in Solna a couple of weeks ago and of having hurt a
man by firing at him in Nacka a short time ago.
The narcotics police in Goteborg and Huddinge outside Stockholm have by -
_ working together broken a branch of a~ extensive narcotics syndicate which
- right now is operating in Western Europe.
- "This report cannot be published zs a whole ~ntil the spring, but there ~r-c -
many frightening features," says detective inspector Jan Norling in the
narcotics department in Goteborg. -
Altogether some 50 Turkish citizens living in Sweden are members of a nar-
cotics syndicate which operates from West Germany. -
~ Chief Prosecutor Anne-Marie Roos at the Office af the Public Prosecutor ir~
Goteborg:
"It started in September of last year. After extensive invastigations in
collaboration with the county narcotics group in Huddinge, the Goteborg -
- police arrested a 28-year-old Turkish citizen who tried to sell 47 grar~is
of heroin in Goteborg."
, "During the course of the investigation more and more Turkish citizens
_ were arrested, and already in December we suspected that the 28-year-~old
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had participated in the rrurde~ ot Nirant Selekman from Stockholm. v~,:~�
continued investigations I was able to request that a 35-year-old fe~~c~~~
~ countryman of the 28-year-old man be suspected of serious narcotics ~~�c~~~.-
tions. The 35-year-old man was caught last week. He has now confesseri
the murder and pointed out the site of the crime.
One of th~se who partic(pated in catching the 35'year-old man is detectivE -
inspector Thorbjorn Carlstedt in Huddinge Detective Office.
Some 50 persons have been caught, taken into custody, arrested, or already
sentenced in Huddinge and Gotebory. Altogether we have confessions aN:~:,`
- smuggling i~i and selling 25 kilograms of heroin since 1978, but the a�:iua~ ~
quantity of heroin smuggled in lies far above 100 kilograms. Enormous s~.~~::.
are thus in�~oived.
Carlstedt reports that since the 35-Year-old man was sei~pd, a house searc~~
of an apartment belonging to a young Swedish v~oman in Handen south of -
Stockholm followed. The findings which tii?n were made resulted in getting
- the assault and battery ~epartment of the Stockholm Detective Office in-
volved.
After the woman had been arrested and brought to Goteborg, the technicians
established that it was a murder site.
"I believe that we will also find the locati~n," says the chief of the as- -
sault and battery department, superintendent Nils Linder.
It was the night of 22 January 1978 that the Turkish pizzeria owner disap-
- peared without a trace. He owned the pizzeria Albergola in Solberga in -
- Stockholm. -
- The police carried out extensive work on the case and disseminated! for one
' thing, 5,000 leaflets in *he suburbs Solberga and Bagarmossen. Selekman's
apartment near Svartagatan was searched with a fine comb without finding
- any leads.
According to what DAGENS NYHETER has found out, Selekman was lured to a
- gaming club in Apelbergsgatan the night he was put out of the way. After _
he had heen robbed and mistreated, he was brought by car by the 35-year-old
fellow countryman who was arrested in Goteborg to his girlfriend's apart-
ment in Hand~n. The murder of Selekman took ptace thr~>ugh mistreatment. _
_ Then the murder victim was brought to a crevice in a f~~rest area, probably -
be*.ween Sodertalje and Stockholm.
Traces of ~lood -
In spite of the fact that 2 years have passed since the crime, the techni-
cians have secured traces of blood in the apartment.
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The 35-year-old man was brought this week by potice from Stockholm. The
man has promised to point out the site where they did away with the body.
_ Selekman may have carried more than half a million kronor the night he was
murdered.
_ The police report that the 35-year-old man will be questioned about the
death fire in restaurant Monte Carlo in Stockholm in March of 1977.
_ The 35-year-old man has been living in Stockholm since 1970 and has been a
frequent guest in Monte Carlo. Approximately 200 guests were located on
the premises where they played roulette on two boards and so-called one-
_ armed bandits, etc. The fire,which had started in a sofa outside the ward-
- robe,spread with an explosive speed. The guests fled out on Sveavagen in
~ panic, and four were left in the flames. The Stockholm Detective Office
fire commission never managed to clearly establish the reason for the fire.
: However, one was not able to abandon the arson theory. The restaurant had
previously received several anonymous bomb threats. According to informa-
tion obtained on Tuesday, one of the persons arrested in Goteborg has said
_ that the 35-year-old man planned to use 200 liters of gasoline during an
attempt at murdering a person who was attached to the restaurant by arson, -
but the crime was prevented.
_ According to the spokesman, the 35-year-old man is suspected of a series of
other serious crimes. A short time ago a person was shot in one leg during
~ disturbance in Nacka. The man was brought to a hospital. He refused to
reveal th~ name of the perpetrator of the crime. A couple of weeks ago -
several shots were fired in a restaurant kitchen in Solna. When police ar-
rived at the place, the perpetrator had escaped. None of those who were
- present dared to name the gun man.;
- The police suspect that the 35-year-old man has been sent to rntimi-
~ date awkward persons. The police also kncw that the 35'year-old man has
- collected large amounts of money for the account of the gang leadership.
"Gifts"
"We have very fine ideas from our investigations and suspect that several
- Swedes have 5een able to buy restaurants with money wfiich was not 'clean.'
- We also know that one of the men arrested gave an attorney a car worth
130,000 kronor as a 'gift.
A large portior of the big profits which were reaped in dope handling and
illegal gaming activity has been placed in pubs and pizzerias i~~ Stockholm
and in other densely populated areas. Extensive black market trading also -
appears in the report including thefts of cars which are smuggled out of
= the country to, for instance, West Germany and Turkey,
There is also information that some members of the gang devoted themselves
to trade in weapons.
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In the extension of the gang therz are seven to eight Turkish policen~e,~ i~
the narcotics ciepartment in Ankara who have been arrested. They are sus-
pected of havir~g tried to smuggle out 13 kilograms of heroin. In thi~~ case
the prosecutor has demanded the most severe punishment in the law--hangins. -
In a secondary report on the Huddinge/Goteborg case there is a Turkish c~ti-
zen who a short time ago was arrested when he came to pick up a kilogram of
heroin in the postal customs office in Stockholm. The narcotics had bpen
hidden in large tin cans labeled meat in aspic. This man has previously
been arrested in Goteborg but was released by the chief prosecutor Anne-
Marie Roos since he, as it was then believed, played a minor role. It
the materials control group at the customs office in Stockholm wF. ch -
through refined mzthods of investigation were able to seize the largest
quantity of heroin so far by mail. As a result of this confiscation and _
the intervention it was also possible to set a trap which the sender fell
into a few weeks ago. The sender and one more Turkish citizen have now
been arrested. -
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SWEDEN -
GANG THAT SMUGGLED DRUGS FROM NETHERLANDS BROKEN UP
Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 19 Mar 80 p 3
[Article by Leif Dahlin: "Big Dope Gang Broken in Orebro"]
[Text] A married couple from Holland has been requested arrested by dis-
trict prosecutor Erik Ahlen in Orebro since they were caught smuygling in
25 kilograms of cannabis. Three Swedes, of which two are men, have also
been taken into custody. On one of them the police have found 208,000
kronor in cash. The smuggling was revealed on Friday after an extensive
investigatio~. The couple is suspected of having smuggled 160 kilograms of
- cannabis by car to Sweden last year as runners.
"All those arrested are completely unknown to the Orebro police in connec- -
tion with narcotics," says district prosecutor Ahlen:
"In December of last year the work in the narcotics investigation produced -
, an idea which resulted in getting the Swedish liaison man in The Hague,
- inspector Bo Johansson, invol~ed in the case. The Dutch police were in-
formed, and the Dutch couple was placed under surveillance. On Wednesday -
of last week Johansson received a report that the couple and their small
children were getting ready for a trip to Sweden. _
"They travelled in a Citroen with a roof rack which was packed with ski
equipment.
_ "Bo Johansson took his own car and trailed the Citroen to the ferry berth
and took the ferry to Goteborg where police and customs had been informed. -
"We did not dare strike immediately but trailed the car further to Karlstad.
The hotel was un~er observation from observation posts in the neighbor
- house for 24 hours. In order to ensure that the continued investigations
_ would not brealc down, I asked the police administration for the use of a
private airplane for 200 kronor per hour at the same time as the investi-
gating cars could stay about half a mile behind on the roads from Karlstad
and south. I was refused for the reason that 500-600 kronor were not avail-
able for an investigative measure of this type.
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"Luckily the task of the investigation was solved in any case, and on Fri
day the couple arrived at Esso Motel on the outskirts of Orebro. There
too we received all support from personnel and private persons so that we
were able to follow what the couple was doinq. We also received help fron -
pe~~onnel from Goteborg, Linkoping, and Stockholm after our emergency ca~i
for help.
"Personnel from the National Detective Office moved into the room next to
that of the couple in the hotel. Throu~h the TV antenna outlet, which they
pulled out of the partition wall, the investigators were able to listen to _
, the couple's conversation, and then the strike was made."
. ~
8958
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- SWEDEN
- DRUG EXPERT CRITICIZES TREATMENT CENTERS
Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBI.ADET in Swedish 15 Mar 80 p 13 -
[Article by Eva Hamilton: "Drug Addicts' Hospital Beds Are Being Used _
_ Wrong"]
_ (Text] There are quite a few hospital beds for narcotics addicts in
Stockholm--but they are being used poorly and irregularly.
This is how Siv Byqvist and Karl-Olov Frunck summarize the situation in
- their three-point paper at Stockholm University: "How are the resources
- for the care of narcotics addicts in Stockholm being utilizedl" Stockholm
is considered to include the entire county.
At the hospital, where the narcotics addicts are first brought for deto;ci- -
fication, an average of 40 percent of the beds are empty.
After the detoxification the intention is that the narcotics addict will
get help to work off his dependence at a treatment home. But this is
where the long and much-talked-about lines are formed--there are not suffi-
cient beds.
- Still an average of every fourth bed in the treatment homes stands empty. -
"Does Not Fit In"
- Why are these empty and badly needed beds not used?
Lars Berg, headmaster at Drevviken's youth home, with many years of expe-
rience in the treatment of abusers, has an explanation:
"The employees in the county council social committee who are in charge of 4
- placing the abusers are too weak. They let treatment homes refuse ta ac-
~ cept applicants with motivations in the style of 'no, that guy doPSn't fit _
= in with the rest of the group.'
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"The rules for classifying into groups are often very hard and special.
experience is that it is not good to classify groups of people in that wa~~.
Not even to divide the abusers into 'alcoholics' and 'narcotics addicts."'
It is especially the older, male narcotics addicts who for many years hav~
been on heavy narcotics and possibly have received permanent damage who
seldom "fit into the group,"
Several treatment homes do not believe they have any possibility for accept-
- ing them, and say no thank you. The lines for this group of narcotics ad-
dicts thus become as long as years. -
Line for Popular Homes
Another eKplanation why every fourth bed stands empty is bureaucratic diffi-
culties between the county councils and the municipalities in dividing up
the responsibility between themselves. This is what the hospital personnel
- complained about in the questionnaires which formed the background for the
pape r.
A third explanation is the unevenness in the homes. The lines are long for -
- popular and well-known homes such as Hassela. At the sarr~ time almost all
beds are empty in other, less well-known homes.
"A reasonable occupancy in the treatment homes is 85-90 percent," Lars Berg
estimates.
Ove Radberg, chief of the municipality's treatment office, does not agree
that there are unused beds:
"Not more than what is necessary in order to be able to work with anything
approaching fl~xibility. In the control cases a couple of homes were about
to canvert or build up th^ir acti~ity. Obviously this is reflected in the
~tatistics in the form of 'empty beds.' There is actually a constant
shortage of them.
"Du~ri~g 1980 fivP treatment homes will go into operation in Stockho~m munici-
~~~;ty.~~
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- SWEDEN
WELFARE BOARD WOULD USE EXADDICTS IN TREATMENT WARDS
Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 19 Mar 80 p 28
[Article by Kerstin Vinterhed: "The National Social Welfare Board: Former
~ Drug Addicts Used in Treatment"]
[Text] The head man in the treatment of narcotics addicts must assume the
responsibility with regard to the conditions of empioyment a~nd training ~
among former abusers who are employed as attendees.
This Is Che contents of an investigation presented by th~ National Social
Welfare Board on Tuesday on former narcotics abusers as attendees. Two
years expertence from approximately 100 employed former abusers lie behirid
the report .
- The investigation consists of a questionnaire investigation among 60 nar-
~otics addict care units and an interview investigation among a smaller
number of former abusers who have now been treated, some of their friends
_ at work as well as representatives from the trade and employers.
Positive
With a couple of exceptions the attitude to former abusers in the treatment
is very positive. However, a repeated requirement is that one should have
worked a couple of years in a"normal job" since one stopped using narcotics
before one goes into treatment on "the other side" and that training both
_ of a general and of a more professional nature must be offered to this per- -
sonnel group.
But it is far between reatity and the ideal. The truth is that former nar- '
cotics addicts are often employed in the harde~t and the poorest paid jobs
- within the treatment of narcotics addicts and without any special training
at zll. Information on how former abusers are used by, for instance, the
field station in Stockholm can be found in the report, at the same time as
it is stated that the ~onditions now are better than previously.
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Substitutes
~ The former abuser is frequently hired as a substitute for 3 to 5 months.
This is sometimes a regular part of the treatment program he himself has
gone through, for instance, at Vallmotorp, but it is often an emergency
~ solution because no other job is available. So he moves from one narcotics
addict treatment center to another and substitutes for 3 months here and
4 months there witho~!t being able to compete for the permanent jobs with
better trained regular personnel. _
Or else he gets a job as Janitor, guard or something similar although in
such a Job he does a normal treatment job, but for much po~rer wages. -
In Stockho~m there is an association of 25 employed former abusers, which
is called the Veteran Group. In this group there is now training one after-
noan each week during paid working hours, but much more is required. Pos- _
sibly the old block training for people in the social administration who -
are not trained social workers could be revived? This is a proposat which
_ is presented in the report. =
No Training .
During the press conference director Jan Ording also mentioned that UHA
[expansion unknown] organized a task force for training personnel in the -
treatment ~f abusers. Actually nobody who works in the treatment of -
abusers has any adequate training precisely for this work. .
The psychologist Joachim Volcherts in the criminal care administration said
that most former abusers are not suitable as attendees. It is difficult to
treat one's own problems sufficiently well that one can also manage for
- others.
But those who go into the treatment of abusers most often have much to give.
They "know the language" which the narcotics addicts talk, they cannot be
manipulated so readily, they are straight and can set certain requirements,
they create confidence and hope, they become objects of identification for =
~ all those who want to but have not yet succeeded in stopping with drugs. _
The conclusion of the report is that the former abusers are needed in the
treatment--possibly especially in its initial sections--but that they
- should work together with normal personnel as they h~ve done so far. The _
- treatment of narcotics addicts in Sweden should not be complete~y taken
~ over by the former abusers themselves, as is often the case in the United _
States. -
- 8958 -
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SWEDEN
LARG~ CO-OP RE1'AILER STOPS SALE OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA
- Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 2 Apr $0 p 14
- [Article by Mona Johansson: "K~nsum Stops Narcotics Seed"]
- jText~ On Yuesday all bags containing the seed which is used as dope were
_ eliminated from the Konsum sho~s in the Stockholm re5ion. _
^ "if the abuse turns out to be extensive, we must make sure that the flower
- seed is stopped," says Olof Arholt, vice administrative director at Wiebulls
in Landskrona.
= Konsum in S~ockholm stopped the flower seed since it had been found out that
youths in discotheques in Stockhalm use the seed as dope.
_ ~
= Three or four bags of seeds are sufficient for becoming high on the nar-
_ cotic. The seed, which contai~is an alkaloid, belongs to the same group as
the drug LSD. The effect is approximately one-tenth that of LSD.
St~p Selting
"We do not want to participate in selling this. That is wFy we have de-
� cided to stop selling the flower seed vdith immediate effect," explains Ann
= Rudholm in Konsum Stockholm.
Before the shops opened on Tuesday Konsum's ~nternal radia re~arted that
all bags should be removed from the shops.
It is Weibulls and Hammenhogs which are the biggest suppl3ers of the flower
seed.
"The problem is that it is a popular flawer which many lil:e to graw," ~ays
Olof Arholt at Weibulls. ~
- "But if the flower seed is used for other purpose tfian to grow them, we ~
must consider withdra~;;ing the flower."
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Not Popular
But it is not a popular measure. The flower is one of the most popular
- climbing plants. Both Weibulls and Hammenhogs sell at least 60,000 bags
each year. A bag costs 1.80 kronor. The problem with the narcotics flowe~
seed cropped up already 10 years ago. Youny kids started to buy dozens of ~
bags of the seed, which they stuffed in their stomachs instead of in the
ground.
- When the suppliers and sellers found this out, the seed bags were removed
from the shelves. They can be found under the counter fcr those custorne~'~~
who ask for t~em.
"We recomrz~~d to the stores that they do not sell more than one port;on t~
each cus*_omer," sayd Olle Alblad, sales manager at Hammenhogs. Some l~
_ years ago we had students from various universities who wanted to buy many
kilograms of it. -
"But that wave died out," Olle Alblad continues, and he hopes that the s~~-~~:
- will happen this time. Of course, one will not feel so well from eating
so much seed.
Sold Out
= Olof Arholt at Weibulls:
"We have also recommended that the dealers do not sell more than a couple
of bags to each customer. If the sellers believe that the customers do not =
plan to use the seed for growing, they can, of course, always say that the
seed is sold out."
- Naw Konsum Stockholm will return bags of seeds to the suppliers. _
� The National Social Welfare Board, which takes care of the classification
of narcotics, will investigate the narcotic seed in somewhat more detail.
- If the abuse of the flower seed spreads among young people, the National
_ Social Wel~are Board can classify it as narcotics and stop the sal~.
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SWE DEN -
BRIEFS
TWENTY IN Gi,~�!G A?RESTED--Malmo--Some twenty persons have been taken into
custody or arrested in Malmo, where the police have unveiled a big band, -
which smuggled cannabis in from Denmark. It involves a total of almost
_ 200 kc~ appraised at approximately 10 million kronor in the last stage of
= sales. The narcotics have either been smugyled by dope runners on the
~ ferry between Dragor and Limhamn or been brought via Oresund from Copenhagen
in fast motorboats, which t~o band chiefs obtained. Most of the people in
the band are youths. Several of the dopa runners managed to make alr;iost
100 smuggling trips via Oresund. There was also a runner who tried to do
private business with cannabis. For this he was punished severely by the
band management. The man reports that he was exposed to physical violence '
and was later forced to pay back the 10,000 kronor he had earned in "pri- -
vate." In connection with the disclosures the police have also found that
ane of the member~ of the band had a pistol loaded with live ammunition.
(DAGENS NYHETER, Malmo) [Text] [Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish _
21 Mar 80 p 17] 8958
DRUG PARAPHERNALIA BAN--On Wednesday the marketing court prohibited a mail
order company in Goteborg from selling jackets with drug motifs and scales
which obviously are inten~ed to be used for determining drug doses.
- SVENSKA DAGBLADET reported last week about a person in Goteborg who, for
one thing, sells jackPts with motifs such as Avnjut cocaine or the ciga-
rette brand Marlboro's package with the text Marijuana. The consumer
representative went to the marketing court, which now prohibited the mail
order company from continuing to sell these narcotics-inspired goods under
the pen~lty of a fine of 100,000 kronor. The distributor has, for one
thing, defended his activity by saying that it involves a statement of opin-
ion to legali2e hash. "That argument does not hold up. What we have here
- involves normal commercial marketing," says first office secretary Paul
_ Katai at the marketing court. [Text] [Stockholm SVENSKA DAGBLADET in Swe-
dish 20 Mar 80 p 4] 8958
CsO: 31og
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SWITZERLAND -
,iEK~.;I`I S;tUGGLING GROUP ESCAPES FROM PRISON
;:~~rich NEUE 'I.UF.RCHER 'LELTUNG in German 10 Apr 80 p 27
[:'ext] A 28-year-old Italian, Raffaela Patania, escaped from the district
~~-ir~on at Meilen on the Saturday prior to Easter. The housewife from
Verc~na r,iana~ed to escape during the daily exercise period, presumably with
- ~~~it:;ide help--the wire fence had heen cut previously. Raffaela Patania had
- been sentenced to 7 years in prison becau~e of a violation of the federal
narcotics laca, accordln~ to ufficial terminology.
' International Gang ~
'Ihis report woulcl be much less dramatic--"departures" f rom penal i~stitutioiis
_ ~nd prisons are virtually everyday occurrences--except that there is a
- c�onnection betweE~n this escape and an international drug smuggling gang
- ~aperating out of northern Italy. Already in early December of last year we =
rE~ported the escape of the major heroin dealer Mario Cassiolari from the
district pr.ison in Buelach. He had been sentenced to 11 y.ears in the
penjtentiary in October for smuggling mo.re than 11 kg of heroin. Because
the verdict was heing appe~ied (and it is still under appeal), the drug pusher
h~d been kept under arrest in Buelach. -
ll K~ oi Heroin Frc~m Bangkok .
~;as~iolari was in the company of a 28-year old "holisewife from Verona" when `
he was arrPsted ~~t ~he Zuri~h Kloten Airport. Exactly 11,180 grams of Heroin ~
.lumber 3(brown ~ugar) were hidden in the false bottoms of his fo~ir suitcases. -
'fhe woman with h~im was Raffaela Patani, wtio has now followed her former
tr:3ve_1 companion to freedom. _
~
Her escape hosoever, is not the only one which is connected to Cassiolari.
:~s reported in mid-December, cn 3 December 1979, only 1 day after Cassiolari's
~~s~ ape, the 35-year-olc' Gjovanni Riva disappeared from the district prison
' at Bellir.zona. R.ccording to the findings of the police, Cassiolari and
Ri~.,~ helong to ~ne and the same drug smuggling gang--the trio has been
reunited.
9.,10
CSG: ~ jt)0 END
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