JPRS ID: 9516 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
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NARCO~ICS AND ~1ANGEROUS DRUGS
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TNI~NESIA
Drug Related Offenses Increase in 1980 ~
_ (RQMPAS, 1 Nov 80) 1
~ PAKZSTAN
Briefs
Morphine Traffic~cer Held 5
Smuggling Bid Foiled 5
Cnaras Seized 5
- Charas Seizure in Hyderabad 5
LATL'~T AI~3RICA
ARGENTINA
Briefs
Drug ~rafficker Sentenced 7 .
- Drug Traffickers in Custody 7
Drug Traffickers Arrested 7
BOLIVIA
Briefs
Cocaine Seized 8
_ Antidrug Operations 8
Cocaine Seized 8:~
BRAZIL
~ Inadequate Drug Addictian Treatment in Rio Discussed
(0 GLOB 0, 12 De c 80) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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r~uK ur~r~l(:lAL U5~ UNLY
Four Drug Ring Members Arrested in Boca do Mato
- (0 GLOBO, 3 Dec 80) 11
COLOMBIA
Iatin American Drugs Picture Described -
(Robert Coram; EL TIEI~'0, 19 Dec 80) 13
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Judges Investigated for Freeiag Traffickers
(EL TIEMPO, 4 Dec 80) 17
Cie.~aga Circuit Judge, D~ughter Shot
- (German Santamaria; EL TIEMPO, 23 Nov 80) 20
Alleged Drugs ' Capo' I~Sirdered in La Picota Prison
- (EL ESPECTADOR, S Dec 80) 27
Army Strikes in Guajira, Cesar and Magdalena -
(Jacquelin Donado; EL TIE1~iP0, 11 Nov 8Q)...~ 30
Traffickers Arrested in Bogota by F-2 A,gents
~ (EL TIEI~O, 15 Nov 80)...........~....o 31
Briefs
Cocaine Seized 32 ~
Barranquilla Marihuana Seizure Described 32
ME I~C ~0
Members of Heroin Trafficking Ring Captured, Investigated
(EL FRONTERIZO, various dates) 33
Heroin Seized '
Accomplices' ]:dentity Withheld
2tao Re~anded
- Success of ' Operation CQndor' in Drug Reduc~tion Claimed
(EL FRCeTTERI7A, 29 Nov 80)..........y 36
Divg Addictian Among Youth in ~ihuahua Reported Serious "
(EL SOL DE SINALOA, 29 Nov 80)......o 37
Briefs
Heroin Seized in Sinaloa 38
Sii~-SAiiARAN ,AFRYCA
MAi7RI TI US
Alarming Number of Drug Addicts Reported
(LE MAURICIEN, 12 ~ep 80) ..............a....................... 39
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Widespread Increase in Drug Trafficking Noted
(DIE REPUBLIREIN, 27 ldov 80) 40 ;
WEST EUROPE
FRAN CE ,
Drug Abuse Increases, Police Fear New Freuch Connection '
(Jocelyn Petitpas; LE FIGARiO, various dates) 41 -
Small Villages Affe~te~d
Heroin I~bre Widely Used ;
Countermeasures Told
ITALY ~
ltaelve Arrested in Antidrug Blitz in South -
(Elio Matarrese; LA GAZ'LETTA DEL I~ZZOGIOE~TO, 14 Nov ~80) 48
SWE DEN .
- Police Break Up Ttuo Large Heroin Smuggling Ri.ngs ~
(Bo Engzell; DACxEN~ NYHETER, lI Dec 80) 51
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DRUG RELATED OFFENSE5 INCREASE IN 1980
Jakarta KO~~AS in Indonesian 1 Nov 80 pp 1, 9
[TextJ Ganja (marijuana) abuse is more dangerous .~:nd more difficult to treat
than morpi~ine abuse. This is because ganja contains Tetra Hydrol Csnabinol, which
- dissolves in body fat, and attacks wlnerable body parts such as the brain, or mens'
reproductive organs. ~?is can lead to an intelligent man becc~ming dull and impo-~
" tent, according to Police Colonel Suharyono, ca~nder of tt:e Principal Narcotics
Research Unit.
Suharyano said tt-.is at a press conference at the Narcotics Research Unit at State
Police Iieadquarters. H~s deputy, Police Lieutenant Colonel J. i~Landagie and the
chief of the State Folice Headquarters Information Service, ''olice Brigadier Gen-
eral Drs Darmawan Su3arsono, were also present.
Ganja abuse is a problem demanding attention, and it must be overcome. Suharyono
noted that current interest was focused on morphine and heroin, while gan~a drew
less attention.
Suharyono stated that all narcotics coane from abroad. However, ganja can be
grown drnnestically, particularly in areas of Sumatra such as Aceh, Medan and Lampung,
- and distributed to Java. ,
Because it can be grown so widely, and since our soil is well suited to ganja plants, ~
- abuse cf ganja i*~creased in the first 10 months of 1980, compared to 1979. In
1980, 1,317,643.85 grams were siez~d, compared to 795,956.617 grams in 1979.
The amount of heroin confiscated also rose, fram 2,041 grams in 1979 to 6,016.b in
the first ten months of 1980.
- In 1979, authorities siezed 4,281.7 grams of opi.~; 652,564 grams of morphine;
~ 3,170 grams of hashish (processed ganja which generally orginates in Pakistan and
~ Afghanistan) and 7,833 ganja. stalks.
During the first 10 months of 1980, 7,75~ ~rams of opium, 125,376 grams of morphine,
3,500 g:-ams of hast~ish and 6,117 gan~a stalks were conf iscated.
Drug-related cases and the number of known addicts also increased. There were
= 396 cases in 1979, cf which 172 were settled, with 653 Inuonesians and 29 aliens
= held, and 254 addicts.
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There have been 575 cases in 1980; 317 of these were closed with the arrest of ,
920 Indonesians, 42 aliens and 336 addicts.
All of these were handled by the State Police Headquarters' Princi.pal Narcotics
Research Unit and Police Regional Co~ands throughout Indonesia. The Narcotics
Research Unit handles cases involving foreign connections, and those that are na- ~
tional scope, or cross regional lines, while other problems are Y:andled by the
respective regional commands.
Suharyono could not provide a definitive figure on the number of addicts, because
normally, the addicts, themselves, or a family member repo�rts them. This differs �
from ordinary crimes lik~ murder, when other peqple provide information.
Addicts are usually reluctant to report themselves, for fear of involvement with
the law. Usually, they report only if tney are seriously ill and need treatment.
Thus, counting addicts is extremely difficult. If we follow the World Health
- Orgar~ization formula, the number is about 30,000. ~
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The base year for that estimate is 1971. If there were 100 addicts that year, and
- lOn in 1972, the actual number in 1972 is 110, based on the 10 percent recidivism
rate for treated addicts. This formula leads to the estimate of 30,000 aridicts.
Since 1971, the polic:e have confiscated around 9.5 billion Rupiahs worth of narcotics,
at the black market price.
The black market price is calculated at 750,000 Rupiahs per kg of opium; 60 million
Rupiahs per kg of heroin; 50 million Rupiahs per kg of morphine; 6 million Rupiahs
per kg of cocaine; 2.5 million Rupiahs ger kg of hashish; and 135,000 Rupiahs per kg
of ganja.
~fiarcotics crianes are not like other cri.mes, said Suharyono. This is because nar-
cotics crimes are co~itted by criminal organizations, and cannot be co~itted
_ alone. Narcotics crimes are international, since the sources are abroad, except
for ganja, meaning there are always foreign connections.
Because these crimes are carried out in secrecy, they must be dealt with in secret.
Leaks will make our efforts futile.
We must move rapidly to shut down narcotics traffic, to cure current addicts and
prevent the spread of addiction.
Because thz victims, offenders and locations of the crime are unclear, unlike othe-r
crimes, investigation takes a long time. Arrests must be timed perfectly, to
sieze the criminals and the evidence. This timing is often very difficult and
time-consuming, someti_mes taking months.
5uhaLyono cited four natable incidents handled by his Narcotics Research U:zit, with
_ the cooperation c.~f foreign police, while one domestic case represented a new
approach.
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With the help of the Indonesian State Police, police in Bangkok confiscated 23 kg
of heroin; Belgian police arrested a suspect, SG; a~d Dutch police siezed 13 kg of
heroin. i
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Initially, Bangkok police phoned Suharyono, directly,.with inforniation. This led ~
to investigation and tailing of SG, who traveled to Indonesia on 1~ April 1975,
and stayed at the Hyatt Arya Duta..Hotel.
- Indonesian police successfully infiltrated the plotters' organization undetected, '
so that they knew all of SG's contacts. They knew where he was going, and who his ~
accomplices were. The Indonesian State Police informed the police of the nation
to which SG was traveling, resulting in his arrest, and sentence to 9 years in
prison in the Netherlands. `
Successful cooperation between the Indonesian State Police and foreign police also ~
led to the siezure of 2 kg of heroin and the arrest of Lim Peng Kio, sentenced to
life at the Court of First Instance and Serre, a Thai fugitive,, at the Hotel 5ari
Pasific on 1 .Tune 1979.
Serre is reportedly now in Bangkok, out of reach of Indonesian police, although � ~
Interpol was asked to help by issuing a red Wanted I~otice. -
. On 2 March Z980, police arrested a heroin smuggler, thanks to cooperation of customs
officials at Halim Perdanakusuma Airport. KS, an Indonesian citizen, was arrested,
and during investigation, it was learned he intended~to go to Amsterdam to transfer
5 kg of heroin he was carrying. Police 3.~tediately moved, in Amsterdam an*~ Medan.
According to KS, the man who was to meet him would be in Amsterdam in 5 days; as
a result, Indonesian policQ moved swif tly.
The team sent to Amsterdam received help from the Dutch police, resulting in the
arrest of the "brains" of the heroin smuggling network, a Malaysian nat3onal named
CAM, and his accomplice, JSA.
They were arrested at the Hotel Ailton, but the team sent to Medan failed, because '
the suspects were able to escape.
Apparently, CAM was the brains of the networlc, wbich smuggled heroin via Bangkok-
Kuala Lumpur-Penang-Medan-J~karta, for sh3pment to Amsterdam. KS was arrested at
Halim.
On 2 October, the Bali police infoxmed the Narcotics Research Unit about a scheduled
heroin sale. The Bali police received the 3nformation from a foreigner who had
succe~s~ully infiltrated the smuggling network, and learned that the sale would take
place in Sanur, and the day it would occur. ~
The Federal Police of Austraila were informed, because the heroin had first been
brought to Austraila> Three Indonesian nationals, PN, JS and Th were arrested,
and one kg of heroin worth $30,000 w~s siezed. ~
Narcotics crime has kept pace with technulogical progress. Smugglers now use falae {
names and addresses for both sender and recipient on p$ckages containing gan~a. i
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On 15 September, police arrested Sp and Ed, with 3.8 kg of ganja.
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On 18 September, police in the Metro Jaya Police Regional Command ar.rested eight
persons for smuggling ganja.
_ The flow of illegal narcotics has shifted from the Golden Triangle to Pakistan -
and Afghanistan. Narcotics now enter the United States via Zurich. Smugglers gen-
erally use two passports--one to travel f rom Pakistan and Afghanistan to Zurich,
and the other one out of Zurich, to cover their tracks.
Police could not deny ;.hat Indonesia would be a major market for drugs, since the
income of the nation is rising, and the geography is favorable, with many islands
and remote areas.
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PAKISTAN
BRIEFS
MORPHINE TRAFFICKER HELD--A woman involved in trading morphine injections and
tab'ets was hauled up and booked under the Islamic Law on Monday. The woman,
Zainab alias Bano was allegedly running narcotic sale business at her resi-
_ dence in Sooter Mandi, inside Lohari Gate. Two hundred injections and 180
- morphine tablets and a sale money of Rs 1200 were seized from her possession.
Seven addicts who were present at the house to get themselves injected with
the morphine injections were alsa rounded up. A worker, Ahmad Ali employed by
the lady for administering injections to the addicts was also arrested. The
smuggled and locally prepared morphine in~ections and tablets were sold at Rs
10/-per item. The seven drug addicts hauled up by the raiding party are Rashi.d,
Saifuddin, Altaf Hussain, Abdur Rashid, Liaquat Ali and Mohammad Rashid and
Ahmad Ali. [Text] [Lahore THE PAKISTAN TIMES in English 16 Dec 80 p 7]
SMUGGLING BID FOILID--Rawalpind~~, Dec. 19--The Custom's Mobile Staff tiumber one
Rawalpindi seized more than 1600 kg of charas and over 53 kg of opium valued
about one million rupees near Dina (Gu~rat), some 100 kilometres from here early
today. Chaudhry Mustafa, Assistant Director Land Customs Rawalpindi said here
this evening that this was the biggest ever narcotics haul by the local Custom's
authorities. T~ao persons, Akbar Jan and Nasrullah, residents of Bara Near
Peshawar were arrested on the charge of smuggling narcotics. During the inter-
ro~ation, the customs sources said both the smugglers disclosed the names of
real owners of there narcotics. They are Saeed Jan and Hukkam Jan, residents
of Tribal area, and well-known smugglers of charas.--PPI. [Text] [Islamabad
THE MUSLIM in English 20 Dec 80 p 3]
CHEIRAS SEIZED--Hyderabad, Excise pfllice has appr~hended two narcotics peddlers,
Ghulam Qadir and Shaukat, and recovered from their possession 260 grams of
charas and opium. (Text] [Islamabad THE MUSLIM in English 17 Dec ~0 p 6J
CHARAS SEIZURE IN HYDERABAD--Hyderabad, Dec 28--The local police today un-
- earthed a four-member notorious gang of contrabad charas traffickers' and in
a raid over on narcotic den at Kali Mori, have recovered 10 maunds of charas,
valuing rupee� one crore. The p~lice also detained two chowkidars namely--
Khatibur Rehman, and Mukhtiar under Abkari Act, Section 43(3). The alleged
gang consists of Daud Khan Pathan, Aurangzeb, Zahir Shah and NL-~jid. Efforts
for their detection are under way. According to details, the S.P. Hyderabad
last night got a hint th~it a big charas traffickers' gang was active in the
city. Al.so that a der~ Fxisted in the Katchi Abadi of Kali Mori. Supported
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by a contingent of task force, two police officials, Inspector Khalid Ahmed
and Inspector Chand Mohammad, raided the den in earlier morning. T~ao chowki-
dars were taken into custody. On their pointation [as publishedJ, the police
recovered 10 maunds of charas. The chowkidars have stated that they were em-
ployees of Daud Khan Pathan, Aurangzeb, Zahir Shah and Majid. The den existed _
- at the place for quite a number of years. The police is actively working on
hot clues to detect the alleged four gangsters.--APP. [Text] [Karachi DAWN
in English 29 Dec 80 p 1j
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ARGENTINA ;
BRIEFS
DRUG TRAFFICKER SENTENCED--Berbae Ledantes, alias Juan Rudecindo Sanabria
Montenero or Antonio Constantino Suarez or Lui.s Suarez, Argentine, 51, has
been sentenced to 10 years in prison and f.ined 200,000 pesos for bringing �
into the country from Bolivia 3 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride in
July 1979. [PY202104 Buenos Aires CLARIN in Spanish 10 Jan 81 p 18 PY]
DRUG TRAFFICKLRS IN CUSTODY--Salta, 12 Jan (NA)--A Salta federal judge has
ordered preventive custody of four drug traff ickers cauglxt trying to in tro- -
' duce cocaine from Bolivia. Gloria Luz Reinaga Gutierrez, a Bolivian
student, was arrested and 3,750 kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride found
in her possession. She was arrested at the Bolivian border. The police
then arrested Manuel Godoy Figueroa, a Chilean, who was using a forged
Spanish passport. In another operation, the police arrested Marta Rosa
Dominguez de Solano, Bolivi.an and seized 2.9 kilograms of cocaine hydro-
chloride. During the same operation the police a].so arrested Jaime Gustavo
Alfaro Rojas, a Chilean, who was using a forged Italian passport. [Buenos
Aires Noticias Argentinas in Spanish 1920 ~ 12 Jan 81 P'Y] -
DRUG TRAFFICKERS ARRESTID--A ring of marihuana drug traffickers who used
a syst~ of introducing compressed marihuana into canned foods to bring
it into the country have been arrested. They are Juan Carlos Martin,
Alfredo Gauna, Roberto Scandura, Ricardo Alvarez, Jose German Matorras,
Daniel Lucio Verduras. [Buenos Aires CRONICA in Spanish 8 Jan 81 p 10 PY] _
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BOLIVIA
BRTEFS
- COCtiINE SEIZED--La Paz, 13 Jan (TELAM)--The National Directorate of Dangerous -
Substances has reported that 41 kilograms of cocaine have been seized in
several police operations and that six persons have been arrested but their _
names werE not released for security reasons. The first operation took place _
on 9 January wh en 23.7 kilograms of cocaine base were seized and two persons
were arrested. Tha following day a Spaniard was arrested and 2.5 kilograms
of cocaine seized. On 11 January, another person was arrested and 13 kilo-
grams of cocaine seized. The last ope~ation took place on 12 January, when
two persons were arrested and 2 kilograms of cocaine seized. [PY192312
Buenos Aires TELAM in Spanish 1530 GMT 13 Jan 81 PYJ -
ANTIDRUG OPERATT.ONS--In the course of the operations being carried out
throughout the country to suppress the pracessing and traffic of dangerous
drugs, a cocaine laboratory was discovered on S January at E1 Puente, located
105 km from Santa Cruz in the Huayapacha District of Cochabamba Department.
T1,ro persons were arrested and another is still being sought .[La Paz
- Rad~o Illimani ~Ietwork in Spanish 1700 (~IT 7 Jan 81 PY] -
COCAINE SEIZED--Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 7 Jan (TELAM)--The Narcotics _
_ Department of Santa Cruz has seized 5.5 kilograms of cocaine in the town
of Montero, northern part of Santa Cruz Department. T~o persons have been
arrested but their names were not gtven. [Buenos Aires TELAM in Spanish
2150 GMT 7 Jan 81 PY ]
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BRAZIL ,
- INADEQUATE DRUG ADDICTIONTREATMENT IN RIO DISCUSSID '
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 12 Dec 80 p 15
' [Text] The state Secretariat of Health yesterday reported that the agency has
no outpatient clinic or special facility for the treatment of drug addicts.
Silvio Barbosa, secretariat advisor, said this problem will soon be remedied.
- "Yesterday (day before yesterday), the newspapers published the governor's de-
cree creating a state council, comprising representatives of the secretariats
of Security, Education and Health, to work specifically on the problem of addicts."
"In the immediate future, what can the Health Secretariat offer for an addict
who seeks treatment?"
_ "The pr~blem of addiction is related to psychiatry. In Rio, specif ically, we
- have no state-administered psychiatric hospitals. The nearest one is in Niteroi
(Jurujuba Hospital). There are also the psychiatric hospitals in Barra do Pirai
and Carmo, the latter considered a model institution of its kind."
The advisor also reported that the Pino and Pedro II Federal Hospitals, located
in Rio, could be an option for addicts, "in addition to the hundreds of nursing
homes that maintain agreements with INAMPS [National Institute for Social Security
Medical Assistance]."
Taking an accounting of his administration several days ago, Erasmo Martins Pedro,
secretary of justice, said he had designated a task force to adapt the National
System of Drug Prevention, Control and Repression at the state level. The group
is "finalizing the plans" for construction of the f irst hospital for the treatment,
classification and shelter of drug addicts. According to the justice secretary,
construction will begin in the next 6 months, on a site already marked out in Bangu.
PINEL
Paulo Cesar Geraldes, director of PINEL, said yesterday that, by its nature as an
emergency and outpatient facility, the hospital treats "anyone who requir_es psy-
chiatric care, whether he is insured by INPS [Nationr,l Social Security Institute]
or not, including addicts."
_ "The problem is that, by reason of these same characteristics, the hospital cannot
offer the prolonged treatment that addicts often requi.re, such as psychotherapy or
- similar treatment. When an addict comes to us, af ter we examine him, we usually
provide support therapy or even crash treatment."
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Alcohol
The director of PINEL explained that drugs like marihuana do not call for intern-
ment unless the case is'serious or they have produced reactiona and psychiatric
disCurbances.
"A marihuana addict is not usually interned. He is treated as follows: If neces-
- sary, he is interned until he is in good condition clinically, i.e., physically
detoxified. Then he is given support ther.apy and, again if necessary, he may re-
- ceive drug therapy. Finally, he receives psychotherapy on an out-patient basis."
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BRAZI'L
FOUR DRUG RING MEMBERS ARZESTED IN BOCA DO MATO
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 3 Dec 80 p 12
[TextJ Yesterday morning on Morro do Ceu, in Boca do Mato, soldi~rs of the 3d
Military Police Battalion arrested four members of a drug trafficking ring known
as "Pituca," whi.ch supplies marihuana and cocaine in the districts of Engenho
Novo, Luis and Agna Santa.
In the three shacks occupied by the bandits, the police seized 157 packets of
cocaine, 370 envelopes of marihuana, 4 kg of brick marihuana, a scale, two re-
volvers and ammunition, as well as a notebook containing names and the quantities
of drugs supplied to other traffickers.
The four arrested are Elias Batista, aged 26, a fugitive from the 20th Police Pre-
cinct; Jorge Oliveira, aged 27; Jose Luis da Conceicao, aged 48; and Sergio das
Santos, aged 25, who was convicted in the First Criminal Court for the murder,
about a year ago, of one Angela, a niece of trafficker Sabara.
Arrest
Led by Lieutenant Alipio, the military police went up the hill at dawn. The
- police secret service had reported the precise location of the bandits, who of-
fered no resistance, but tried to escape on foot when they saw the soldiers ap-
proaching.
The first to be arrested was Elias, who was carrying a.22-caliber revolver and
ammunition. The 157 packets of cocaine, 370 envelopes of marihuana, the scale,
the ciotebook and 20,915 cruzeiros were hidden in the oven of the stove. ~
Names
The notebook contained the names of small traffickers who purchased drugs there,
some of whom were known to the police: Charles, "Bimba," "Pintinha," "Buda,"
Claudio, Fernando, "Gordo," Miro, "Rolinha" and Elias.
In the second shack, Jorge Oliveira and Sergio dos Santos were arrested with 4 kg
of brick marihuana, a.38-caliber revolver and a quantity of am~tinition. They
- implicated Jose Luis, who was sleeping alone in another shack. According to them,
Jose Luis picked up the drugs at the foot of the mountain and delivered them to ~
the sales point.
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Statement
In the 25th Police Precinct in Engenho Novo, Sergio said he was the son of convict
Felipe Neves dos Santos, "Felipao," who was convicted of homicide 20 years ago in
Frei Caneca. He also said he did not like the trafficker "Sabara," who has already
been arrested, and that it was during an [argument] with him that he killed Sabara's
niece. He denied, however, that he was a drug trafficker or that the weapon found
in his shack belonged to him.
- Jorge Oliveira said he had never been arrested and that he currently works as a
handyman with his brother Sidney. Elias and Jose Luis admitted they were drug
traffickers.
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LATIN A,MERICAN DRUGS PICTURE DESCRIBED =
Bogota EL TIEMPO ~~n Spanish 19 Dec 80 Sec D p 20
[Article bp 'Robert Coram: "A Mutual Distrust"] . :
[Text] (.The author of th~'.s article, Robert Coram, specializ~es in rariting ~rticles on
drugs Por the ATLANTA CONSTITUTTON, and for national and regiona? publications in _
the United States.~
The Latin A~nericans have d~scovered that the drug traffic, which is causing serious
- economic and social damage ~nternationally, can only be curbed through internatic,nal
negotiations.
During recent months, more and moze Latin American public officials have become con-
vinced of the reprehensible nature of drug smuggling and it�~ extensive proliferation
in the hemisphere. They have also noted that the smugglers appear increasingly more
aggressive.
From a limited standpoint, the drug traffic appears to be concentrated in one or two
countries, as indicated by an official of Panama Civil Aviation, who said: "We Latin -
American countries are only transit locations. The drug smuggling is a prbblem of
the United States." '
The use of private planes to ship illegal drugs, one di the many means used for -
smuggling, causes other problems in addition to those ste~ning from the drug traffic
itsel~.
Nearby Gua~ira
Let us observe Venezuela, adjacent to the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia, the start-
_ ing point for many of the illegal drugs sent from Latin America to the United States.
Jose Zapata, general directot of Venezuelan Civil Aviation, declares: "The smugglers -
are creating an ~Lncreasing number of problems for the safety of flights in my coun-
try.
"The most comulon ones axe the seareh and rescue missions, which cost Venezuela hun-
dreds of thousands o# dollaxs a y~ear, as well as the employment of rescue personnel
_ the Waste of ~~me, a fiigh degree of maintenaace and th~ expenditure in ships and
aircraft."
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It operates as ~ollows: The smugglers enroute to Colombia subm~.z a legitimate flight
plan to V%.~~.ezuela. This is a protective measure in the event that they aTMe forced
� to land tn Colomb:~a and are accused of violatiag that countrp~s air spacc. If any-
thing happens, tfiey can sap that thep were on a normal flight plan, and that they
became lost or had an emergencp dur~f.ng the flight. This flight plan enables those
di~ecting the a~r traffic to aseertain that the plane is on its rmute until, in
- Venezuelan air space, they declare an ~mergency, turtt off-their radios and head
toward Colombian Gua~ira, after a few minutes of flying.
As a regult of the loss of radio contact, Venezuela organizes an intense search and
_ rescue mission for tbe aircraft, after it has stopped responding to repeated radio _
- calls. The search could continue for days, ~nvolving ships and aireraft. Then, a -
few weeks later, Zapata disc~vers tha.t the aircraft has been observed in the United _
States.
, He says that these false emergency calls occur about once a week. As a result, Zapata
c?.aims, the radio emergency calls in Venezuelan air space are losing credibility.
He reu?arked: "Some day a real emergency situation will oecur, and it will not be
recognized." -
Aruba
� Another locat~on exposed to great danger as a result of the smugglers' attitude is
Aruba, a sma11 island near the coast of Venezuela.
Mike Nicholas, director of the Aruba airport, comments: "We are experiencing an
increasing number o~ situations wherein collisions occur in the air space owing to
the drug smugglers. In 1978, there were 22 ir~cidents; and in 1979, there were 45."
Aruba is only a short flight from the tip of the Gua~ira Peninsula. If the Colombian -
Air Force intercepts a smuggler, the latter escapes and hides in Aruba. Sometimes
bad weather or the lack of gasoline forces the smugglers to land in Aruba. They often
fail to notify the airport tower in advance; they simply come from anywhere, and land.~
Nicholas said that, recently, "a catastrophe almost happened," when a passenger plane
with 120 tourists aboard was about to take off, when a smuggler, without making radio
contact with the control tower, laaded in the opposite direction. Nicholas remarked
that, if an airplane loaded with passengers had crashed with a drug amuggler, "our -
entire economy would have been damaged."
Costa Rica on the Route
Roberto De Benedictis, director of Costa Rican Civil Aviation, says that his country
- has become part of the Central American itinerary used by~ the drug smugglers who are `
bound for Mexico and the western United States. He claims that large airplanes lack-
ing the proper cextif~cat~on of satisfactorq operation, owned by nvnexistent com-
panies" and piloted by ~ndividuals who lack permission to do so, often traverse Costa
_ Rica. He said that he, ~s greatly concerned with the dangers posed by these planes
to legitizaate ~1~ghts and to the population on land. .
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De Sened~ctis noted that, last year, Costa Rica seized marihuana vaYued at over $250
m~llion, and ~11ega1 p~lls worth over $i8 million, which are astronomical sums for
- such a small countr}r.
Both Nicholas and De ~enedictis cited ~xamples flf armed dxug smugglers who landed
and intim~.dated the a~rport authoritiES.
Several months ago, s~qugglers took over the international airport on the island o~ ~
South Caicos for several hours. 't'hey held a shootout in the airpor~, seeking a man
whom they sa~d that they war~ted to ki11, and they finally flew elsewhere. _
~ Marihuana Instead o~ Coffee
The incenttve for prof~.t grom drugs has steered the countrqts normal activities
toward the smugglers' sphere of influence. For example, h~ndreds of coffeegrowers
in Colomb~a are no longer growing coffee, but ratt~er marihuana.
In Colombta, wAere the government controls the coffee i.ndustry, this means that the
nation sufPers a d~rect lo~s of revenue when coffee produetion declines; and since
_ coffee has many mo�re m~ddlemen and benefits more peopl~ t~han the illegitimate mari-
huana, the ne.~ result ~f the change in crops means a loss of ~obs for workers, and
large profits for a small group.
The harm caused to the society by the smuggling produces effects that are less visible
but perhaps more damaging than those of an eronomic nature. They include an overt,
widespread violation of the laws in the countries wYterein the smuggling has proli-
ferated.
_ The law-abiding citizens observe the large-scale evasion of the law that always
accompanies drug smuggling; and they note that many lawa are violated with impunity
over a long period of time. Almost subconsciously, they wonder: W?iy not? As a result
_ some of them also start to break the law; or they think *_hat if the law is not upheld -
in one area, fC is not upheld in any. The result is that they ~ecome less respectful
of the law.
Many violations of law occur because the public officials are corrupted with money
from drugs. The ~muggling would be far more difficult if the public officials, and
the military and civilian agents and authorities enforced the law.
Nevertheless, it i~ dangerous to resist, and the honest officials have to be careful.
A~udge who publ~cly opposed drug trafficking was recently murdered in Colombia.
Scores of government officials, military and police offieer~, ~udges and other civil
authorities have been killed by drug.traffickers in Colombia alone.
Drug VictiYVs
But the v~olence is not confined to preventive measures against the forces of law;
violent cri~me ~d the ~llegal drug traffic go hand in hand. Those involved in the
traffic distrust one another, and fight for autl~ority and territorq, among other
things. The traff~ckers a].so attaek anyone who stands in their way. On the Gua3ira
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Peninsula scores o~ deaths 6ave been docwnented among traf#~.ckexs, and there are
reports oP many~ other deaths related to drugs all over Colomb:ta.
A countr~r dePply i~p2~cated ~.n drug trafficking inevitablp earns a bad reputation
among the fam~.ly~ o~ nations~ Bolivia is a good example. '1'he a7legations to the
i effect thdt the coup d'etat last ~ul? ~ras backad by money from d~ugs monopolized '
the headlines throug~iout the world.
There is a multitude o.f deepseated and alarming problems brought on by the drug -
traffic, and they are not conf~,ned only to the United 3tates, Latin America or
any other part o~ the world. These are sh3red problems, and the soluti.on should
be m~de possiBle tfirough eooperation among all the countries affected. _
Until then, the ~,llegal drug traffic will continue to weaken the fabric of the
society of an}r country tfiat it affects. ,
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COLOMBIA
JUDGES INVESTIGqTEA POR k'REETNG TRAFPICKERS
Bogota EL TIE~O in Spanish 4 Dec 80 Sec A p 15 ~
jTextJ Two ~udges, one from Ibague and the other from Bogota, are under investiga-
tion by the Off~ce of the Attorney Generai.: of the Nation for irregularities asso-~ -
ciated with probes that this office is conducting of the drug traffic.
The 32d ~udge o~ crimtnal proceedings of Ibague, Buenaventua Lugo, is being investi-
gated for suddenly allowing the release of six individuals who were seriously
~mplfcated in drug trafficking. ,
The sub~ects Oscar de Jesus Ortiz Valencia, Antonio Jose R~etrepo Ramirez, Hector ,
de Jesus Garcia Gonzalez, Rosemberg Arias Montes, Oscar Benitez and Francisco
Jimenez were captured by g-2 in the vicinity of Natagaima, Tolima, on 21 August '
~ of this year.
On that occas~,on, the secret agents discovered a modern laboratory for cocaine
processing on the Guaguaraquito farm in the rural section of La Molana. At leas~
700 kilograms of the alkaloid were seized. .
The six captives were taken to the model ~ail in Bogota, and the indictment was
drawn up by Judge Buenaventura Lugo, in Ibague. ,
On 15 October o~ this year, the decision of the indicting official to release the '
six captives, apparently for lack of evider.ce, was disclosed.
Upon leaming of the release of the aecused, the national chief of F-2, Col Nacim
Yanine Diaz, filed a complaint with the Office of the General Prosecutor of the
Nation, which ordered the ~nvestigation of the official.
In Bogota
Moreover, the Office of Assistant Prosecutor for Judicial Vigilance ordered an .
invest~gation opened i�n the 18th penal circuit court of Bogota, because of the
disappearance of an ind~ctment for drug trafficking.
The general secretary of the Prosecutor~s Office, Jose Roberto Herrera Vergara, said
that $122,580 in U.S. currency was confiscated in the indictment that disappeared.
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Upon notin~ the d~.sa~pearaace o~ the aforementioned records, which took place a few
weeRs after the court finestigat~on was opened, the head of that office visited the
Prosecutor~s O~~~ce ~n person, to request the probe.
Inquir}r '
The Assistant ~xosecutor's Office, for its part, ordered disciplinary investigations
opened in various parts of the country, in connection with the following matters:
In the government of Hui1a, based on a complaint filed by Faustino Fantino, general
manager of Codisuto, who stated that public bid No 002 of 1980, for the purchase of
dump trucks, loaders, motor graders and tractors, was awarded to a firm whose bid
did not comply~ with the spec~ficattons, nor with the terms of international credit
suthor3zed by the Ministrp of Finance.
In the government of Antioquia, regarding a possible violation of legal contracting
regulations in the process of open bidding by the aforementioned entity for the
renovation of the department's automobile stock, especially in connection with the
purchase of CJ-7 campers. The probe was requested by Lorenzo Solano Pelaez, general
secretary of the M~:n~stry of Government.
Penalties
In addition, the f irst regional prosecutor of Bogota, in a decision of the first
instance, handed down the following disciplinary decisions:
He requested suspension of Tob~as Murgas Cotes, auditor of the comptrollership of
the National Insurance Pund, from the exercise of his funetions for a period of 20
days, because in the contract concluded between that entity and architeet Carlos
Reyes for i.h~e construction of physiotherapy facilities in the clinic, he received
projects in addition to those initially agreed on, without the respective contract
nor budget tnspect~on, tax payment, or extension or renewal of guarantees. For
similar actions, the same disciplinary penalty was imposed on Ale3andro Maestre
Palmera, in his capacity as auditor of the National Insurance Fund.
He also requested the suspension of Carlos Luque Mo~ica, director of the essets
Division of the I3ational Universitq of Colombia, from the exercise of his functians
- for a period of 8 days, for having omitted in the specifications for bid No 2 of
1918, the reference to the specifica~ions and quality of the assets which were the
sub~ect of the contract.
The investigation was carried aut based on a complaint filed by the Workers Union
of the National University.
- He requested a 25~day suspension of Filiberto Poveda Lozano, deputy mayor of Fonti-
bon, for havi:ng carr~ed out d~spossess proceedings against Angelino Hernandez Moreno
and others for alleged de Pacto nccupation, without drawing up the pertinent docu-
ments and disregardi~ng the r~ght of those concerned to submit evidence that would
~ustify their possession. The penalty was also substantiated bq the fact that the
aforementioned off~cial ordered those dispossessed to be placed at the disposal of
the Fontibon substation, wfithout including the report backing such a measure.
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He requested a 25rday $uspension of Maj .(ret) Carlos Manuel Codina Escallon, director
o~ the ~nodel ~a~L1 ~fl Bogota, for having penalized that estsblishment's legal adviser,
Lucy~ J. ~'i$u~xoa, on three oecas~ons, without carrying out tb.e respective disci- _
plinary pxoceduxes.
The same reg~,onal prosecutor's o~~ice imposed a penaltp of a fine equivalent to 30
dayst salarp on Ma~ Carlos Codina, for not having resolved ~a~n motions to set aside
~~led by an ~te, aga~nst peaalizing decisiona made against him, "one of which was _
~mposed in a b~aaed manner, based on a-nflaexiatent regulation."
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CULOI~IA
CIENAGA CIF.CUIT JUDGE, DAUGH.TER SHOT
Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 23 Nov 80 pp 1-A, 6-A
~ [Article by spzcial c orrespondent German Santamaria: "They Killed the One He Loved
Most")
[Text~ Cienaga, 2 Nov--One afternoon in July 1976, a~-year-oJ.d little t~irl ~ ~
answered the phone in a house on a dusty street in Cienaga. She only~ heard a
muffled voice which told her: "Tell that fornicating father of yours that he will
not go on fornicating much longer because we are going to kill him."
The little girl put the receiver down. She was too little to know that her father,
the Cienaga circuit court criminal judge Jose Angel Bolanos had several days earlier
handed down a judgment against one of the biggest marihuana traff ic bosses along
the entire Atlantic Coast.
From that day on however life changed for the little girl because, in addition to
~ the threatening phone calls which came increasingly frequently, the entire family .
~ on many occasions slept on the floor out of fear of a burst of mach3.negun fire ~
coming through the window.
But the fear springing from that f irst phone call turned into reality 4 years later,
precisely at 2300 last Saturday, when eight bullets hit the body of Zoyla Mer}�
Bolanos, now 13 years old, wearing gr een slacks, a white blouse with blue stripes,
and long hair which had never been cut bef ore.
Zoyla Mery did not manage to become an adolescent and fell to the sidewalk in front
of her~home, where, together with her father, she was brushing the mud off her shoes
when the shooting began. The two of them had been walking hand in hand for eight
blocks, returning to their home, after watching television at the grandmother's
home.
The moon lit up the night and the former judge had just commented to his daughter
- about how beautiful those three teddy bears were which he had brought f rom Cuba,
whence he had returned 15 days earlier, a�ter attending an international f orensic
medicine congress there.
Fond of his evening walks, as only fathers along the coast can be, perha~s inspired
by a feeling of machismo, idolized by his daughters, Jose Angel Bolanos, 39, dark
and powerful, did not realize that a ma,n had emerged fxom behind the last corner
and that, when he was cleaning his shoea, he began to ~ire; there were seven bullets
for the father and eight for the daughter. ~
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While the little girl died instantl~, the fotmer judge lived~ Thus had been per-
petrated one oF the most execr..able crimes in the nation's history. ~
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The Highest Price ;
Attorney Jose Angel Bolanos is now in a aospital center in liarranquilla, with three
bullets still in his leg, in his hip, and in his stomach. '
i
~ He told us that he had served Colombian ~ustice for 10 years. "But I never imagined ~
that the price I would Y~ave to pay for my service to tha judicial branch would i_
precisely have to be the life of my daughter," he said and laoked at the wa 11 wherp
- there was a photo of Zoyla Mery.
Then he told us about his life and the Zast 3 years becaaae an indictment of Calom- ~
bian justice.
He was as a matter of fact appointed judge of the ninth criminal district of~ '
Barranquilla in 1977. And he did the ~ob so well that many people believe that ~
justice in Barranquilla can be divided into the times before and after Jose Angel ~
Bolanos.
In summary, during a period of 2 years, judge Bolanos exposed cases of fraud ag-
ainst the government involving an amount close ta 2 billion pesos and sent at I
least 200 persons to jail, including the mav;~~'of the city, the comptroller, and ,
the secretary of public works. ~
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He did such a tcemendous job that tr~~ city's Rotary Club at the end of 1978 honored i
him as the judge of the year. Bv ~ Colombian ~ustice did not reward him similarly. ;
The Superior Court of the Atlar.t~c did not reappoint h~.m and on 30 October 1979, -
Jose Angel Bolanos had to vac�ate the office of the ninth criminal court; he opened
his own office in the buil~ing of the Barr.anquilla Chamber of Commerce. '
In simple ter~, Jose Angel Bo~anos was the only judge capable of harnessing the ;
most corrupt official administration of Colombia, that is, the administration of '
Barranquilla; but the Superior Court of the Atlantic in practice deprived him of
his authority, removed him from his position as a judge, and left him out in the ~
street, with all of his enemies coming after him, to such a point that the threat
- was finally implemented when they wounded him last Saturday and killed his daughter. _
- That is the worst of it all. And here is how he puts it: "Justice in Colombi~ has
become a political football. I do not have an political sponsors because I am an
independent man and I spent all my time studying my country's laws in order to
serve Colombia. And they did not reappoint me simply because I had no political
influence and, prec:isely at a point when I was involved in one of my most delicate
investigations, I found myself out in the street, without a job, without protection,
and with all my enemies coming af ter me."
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The First Scandal
Jose Angel Bolanos got his law degree in 1969 at the Free University of Barranquilla
after having some trouble in his studies because he belonged to a lower middle-class
family from Cienaga, where his father was managing a sma11 coffee mill.
Bolanos, who always had a temper ever since he was a little boy, was also a man of
- intellectual reflection, to such a point that his home was `illed with books, both
those of the classical authors of literature and those of the great law treatise
writers.
He was one of those rare intellectuals who grow among the dusty heat of the little
towns along the coast. But he was also quite ~iifferent because he was attracted
by the rigor of justice and he wanted to make sure that every day was lived to the
�ullest.
This is why, 2 months after graduating, he began his career as a judge in the little
towns alon~ ttie coast. At the end of 1969, he was a general city judge in San _
Sebastian de Buenavista. Just one year later he was in Aracataca and at the begin-
n ing of 1971 he came t~ Salamina, Magdalena. _
This is where he for the f irst time earned his spurs in the implementation of
j ustice. There were two councils in this little town. And the city government
took over the local council. Judge Bolanos then launched a trial involving charges
of abuse of authority and that resulted in the jailing of treasurer Jorge Riquet, _
solicitor Jose Charry, and the secretary as well as the lady mayor. _
J udge Bolanos did not allow himself to be impressed either on the Sunday when a ~
large number of Salamina parishioners got drunk, took over the court, and dragged
him out and beat him. But he did not leave his post. He remained in Salamina for
one more year and in the end all the people realized that r_he judge was right.
When the people agreed that he was right, Jose Angel Bolanos continued his career
a s a judge until he came to his home town of Cienaga early in 1976. And that is _
when the t~rror began.
For a Bottle of Whiskey
Tne people of Cienaga--many of whom had known the troubled times of the banana
companies and the Dutch prostitutes--did not believe that the boy, who had played
baseball on the dusty streets, was going to be a real judge.
But a week later the whole thing was cleared up. Tfao boys, who had been arrested -
f or some minor smugglir.g, told him: "Look here, Jose Angel, let us go and we will
give you a bottle of whiskey wP have at home." Bolanos looked them in the eye.
"Keep it so that you may drink it when you get out of jail," he replied and he let
them go only after they had served their sentence.
- Then everybody began to understand that this was a~ifferent kind of judge although _
- basically they thought that no judge along the coast would resist the temptation of
a bribe of 1 million pesos. ~
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But a few weeks afterward, Judge Bolanos did xesist a bribe of 3 million pesos. '
That happened when, on the beach near Cienaga, sev~eral men were taken by surprise
while unloading more than 5 tons of marihuana from a boat. The traffickers began '
to offer him hal� a million and finally raised the ante all the way to 3 million-- ~
but Judge Bolanos sent them to jail.
But astonishment grew further several months later. That was when Jose Angel
Bolanos sentenced a wel~-known international marihuana dealer living in Cienaga,
in a mansion standing in the middle of a putrid Pond but so luxurious and so safe
that the Mercedes Benz car could be driven to his bedside.
That is when that phone call reached the home, the one that was answered by little ~
Zoyla Mery. After that there were many other phone calls and equally threatening
notices were slipped under the door so that it was necessary to station two police
officers in front of 4-l~rat lower middle-class home. Practically the entire family
used to sleep on the ~loor out of fear of machinegun f ire coming through the win-
dows. On the floor slept Judge Bolanos and his wife Maria Concepcion Canedo de !
Bolanos, and their three children, Fidel Camilo, Zoyla Mery, and little Jose Angel,
Jr. Although she slept on a mattress on the floor, Zoyla Mery was surrounded by
- her collecti~n of bears and monkeys.
Threat in Barranquilla
. Early in 1977, Jose Angel Bolanos was appointed j udge o� the ninth.criminal court '
of Barran~uilla. Zoyla Mery was already 10 years old and entered Presentacion High ~
School of Cienaga where she fully exercised her talents for leadership; she was ,
f irst in dancing, ~n reciting, and she was also the leader of a"combo" of ten girls '
who constituted the vanguard group in all high school activities.
In the meantime, her father was handling some very serious cases. For example, ~n
- 10 January 1978 he issued an arrest order against the entire staff of the Barran-
quilla city administration in connection with the Calixto Leyva High School which
involved the repair of some roofing that was worth only a little more than 800,000
pesos altihough the cost was inf lated up to about 4 million. The verdict among
other things hit former mayor Alfonso Nicolela Decaro, public works secretary Cris- ~
- tino Alvarea Torregrosa, and the comptroller at the time, Estelio Rancedo.
Around that time, Judge Bolanos discovered that there were more than 150 persons
in the Municipal Public Enterprises--a real cesspool in Colombian public administra- '
t~on--who had retired on the basis of phony work certificates, issued by the Atlan-
tic Police Department.
While investigating ways in which Public EnterpriseS were collecting pay for dead
persons and individuals who existed only in the imagination, Judge Bolanos dis-
covered graft involving 1 million pesos in the Telephone Company. As if that were
not enough, he also looked into the finance management situation and to his astonish-
ment it was discovered that graft had been going on there for several years amount-
ing to more than 1 billion pesos, both through falsif ication and replacement of
tax receipts and through. the falsification of the CAT (ta~: credit certificate) .
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- All of this caused widespread astonishment throughout the nation. The press talked
about Lhis great judge. They picked him as ,judge of the year because he had dared
put an end to corruption in Barranquilla, a city where a comptroller--by the name
of Napoleon Fernandez--was murdered with his wife the day before submitting evidence
to the Council regarding graft and where a visitor from Bogota--Rafael Rubio Pupo--
was riddled with bullets at the entrance to his hotel while he was investigating
tax fraud.
Jose Angel Bolanos worked relentlessly, issuing arrest orders against more than
200 persons and day after day he delved more deeply into the shattering administra-
tive immorality of Barranquilla while he was subjected to a flood of calls and
letters and attempts at bribery. "Even if it costs 5 millions, you have to s~~op
this tax investigation," they told him.
In three cases of homicide and four cases of drug trafficking, which he had to
handle during those 2 years, Jose Angel Bolanos likewise received huge off ers of
bribes. This even went so far that an old woman tried to press 50 pesos into his
hand so that he would release her son who had been arrested for a minor crime.
Surrounded by aIl this din, traveling to his home in Cienaga every weekend, dis-
guised, so that he would not be murdered, Jose Angel Bolanos learned one day that
he had not been reappointed, that he would no longer be a judge, that he was out
- in the street, and that his only asset was a Land Rover camper (the house in
Cienaga on that dusty street is his wife's inheritance).
When he set up his own law office, he was very ~uch unlike any of some of the other
former judges along the coast who owned big ranches, ocean-front mansions, and
apartments in the E1 Chico section of Bogota.
But Jose Angel Bolanos was happy; he had done his job; his beloved daughter Zoyla
Mery was in senior high sc~.~ol now and he was an independent man who consi.dered
himself a good lawyer.
~ But his enemies were out to get him and they never forgave him. They were happy
- because they knew that Jose Angel Bolanos was no longer a judge and that he was
now walking about unprotected like any other citizen.
All is Lost?
"Everybody was sure that something serious was going to happen to my father," said
his son Fidel Camilo in Cienaga.
And in the hospital, the former judge said: "I believe that everything is lost. I
believe that they all got away due to lack of evidence." He talked about all those
whom he had sent to prison for more than 10 years during his tenure as judge.
Then he reviewed those past 10 years and said; "I do not know who am~ng them could
- have done it, I cannot tell, but I must admit that they did a thorough job because
they killed my daughter who was the apple of my eye--I loved her so much."
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And he looked to the past again and said that some people had gotten away due to
political influence while others had managed to get,away due to lack of evidence.
He was thinking of the tax cases, the phony retirements, the phony contracts and
the drug traf f ickers .
"The government security forces know who the drug traffickers are, they know where
they are, they know how they work, they know all about their life, but they do not
dare grab them because that would mean killing the goose tha~c laid the golden egg,"
he said .
He also made a somewhat polemic remark: "The Security Law disarmec~ the ~easants,
the honest people who were using their weapons to defend themselves but the mafia
fellows continue to carry their arms, to shoot and to kill."
He fell silent, looked at his daughter's photo on the wall, and said: "And those
mafia fellows were not shooting at government forces because they go around armed.
They only shoot at our judges.
"Although you cannot ask martyrs to come out of the judicial branch, it is true
that my wounds and the sacrifice of my daughter affect not only me but also all
judges of Colombia," he said. ~
"This is a wide chasm which is now opening up in Colombian justi.ce. Now we are
heading into the times of terror. From here on in, judges, facing a powerless
government, which neither supports nor protects them, are going to think twice
before handing down a judgment. What will a judge think in the future when he
gets a phone call and when they tell him that they are going to kill his son?"
~ he says.
"Yes, the case involving my daughter and the cases in Medellin are a wide chasm
that enables us to measure the full range of crime in Colombia, All it takes is a
phone call or some shooting and judges will think twice before they rule," he
pointed out.
- "Arm our judges? What good would it do to give a judge a revolver--against the
machinegun of a professional killer?" he asks.
And then he falls silent again. He stares at Zoyla Mery in the photo an the wall.
He knows that, in addition to the pain resulting from his daughter's death, his
wounds can cost him at least half a million pesos in hospital bills. And a former
judge is not entitled to any social security even though he may have saved the
country at least 2 billion pesos.
But then he rises from the bottom of his loneliness: "A judge is less protected
than a police officer. I lost my daughter who was most important to me. But if
they should reappoint me as judge, I would do the same thing all over again, I
would jail the same criminals and I would be just as honest in implementing the
law. I will never act contrary to w~at I consider to be cowardice because I have
never been and never will be a coward."
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AI,LEGED DRUGS ' CAPO' MURDERED IN I~A pICpTA PRISON -
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[Text] Gonzalo Jimenez Panesso, described as one of the most notorious "capos" in =
the drug trafficking underWOrld operating in the country, was shot to death yesterday
inside the La Picota prison.
The crime took place in block 7 of the aforementioned prison establishment, and was
committed by Alberto Vasquez, aged 28, who is serving a sentence for a murder commit-
ted in Antioquia.
The antisocial individual used a Smith and Wesson revolver to kill Jimenez Panesso, ,
and it is not known how the weapon was brought into the prison. He fired several ;
shots with it at the victim, killing him instantly.
Maf ia Vengeance
Jimenez Panesso had been confined in La Picota at the order of the 14th penal circuit '
court, in which ~e was tried for the crime of drug trafficking. His remains were ,
legally removed by the Restrepo chief of police, while the perpetrator of the homi-
clde remained isolated in one of the establishment's cells. Meanwhile the pertinent
investigation was started, in an attempt to establish the motive for the crime, ~
which might well be the result of vengeance plotted by other Mafia members.
As has already been noted, the murdered drug trafficker was regarded as one of the
most important and active members of the organizations engaged in drug trafficking,
and he had been tried on several occasions for that illegal activity.
First Escape
- After being involved in the notorious La Mesa de Ruitoque case, in a location near
Bucaramanga, where a cocaine processing laboratory was discovered, Jimenez Panesso
was captured tn Turbo with other individuals who had 300 kilograms of the alkaloid
in their possess~.on. At that time, the subject managed to escape; but that did
not prevent h~s betng sentenced to 3 years in prison, in absentia.
Converted Into a Tycoon
Through h~s activ~.ties head~ing a powerfut drug trafficking organization, Jimenez
Panesso amassed a large amount of capital, which enabled him to purchase the
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Anaconda flotet, in Leticia, for several million pesos, as well as several apartment
houses in Bogota and other cities in the country.
Caught ~n Puerto Wilches
In early July of this year, the sub~ect was captured on the La Esmeralda farm, near
Puerto Wilches, where he had set up another cocaine processing laboratory. There,
Jimenez was caught, along with six other invididuals, aad 250 kilograms of the alka-
loid were se~zed and destroyed by officials of the Assistant Prosecutor's Office
for the Jud~c~al Pol~ce, whi:ch Fras responsible for the major blow againet crime.
Escape and Recapture
_ Incarcerated in the ~a~l o~ the aforementioned Santander municipality, within a few
days the sly, elus~ve cri.minal managed to escape; however, I2 days later, on 17
July, he was spotted and recaptured in apartment 202 of building No 58-45, on Avenue
30 in Bogota, an apartment which he owned, as he did another very luxurious one at
the intersection of Higfiway 10 and 82d Street.
On that occasion, the individual tried to put up resistance against the officials
of the Prosecutor's Office, who were forced to fire several shots in the air and
to relieve him of a revolver that he was carrying.
Jimenez was subsequently placed at the disposal of the sforementioned 14th penal
circuit court, and was sent to the La Picota prison, where his eriminal career
came to an end yesterday.
It should be added that a brother of the murdered underworld figure, who had also
been engag~d in drug trafficking, was killed in Miami in the eourse of one of the
"vendettas" that often occur among those international organizations. ~
it is also fitting to recall that Jimenez was associated with Alfonso Camacho Leyva,
who w~s brought tv trial a few days ago, with another individ~al, because a consi-
derable amount of cocaine that he had brought from Leticia, was found in his posses-
sion. The latter is the Amazon port where Jimenez, after selling the Anaconda Hotel,
had set up his center of supply for coca leaves or paste; in other words, the raw
material for processing cocaine. _
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ARMY STRIKES i'? GUAJIRA, CESAR AND MAGDALENA
- Bogota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 11 Nov 80 p 3-A
[Article by Jacquelin Donado)
[Text] Barranquilla, 10 Nav--In its frontal attack on gangs of drug .traffickers
operating along the Atlantic Coast, the army this weeken~ managed to grab many
millions worth of smuggled marihuana, vehicles, and equipment; it also captured
nine persons presumably connected with that activity.
The army confiscated 504 packages of marihuana whose value on the black market is
estimated at something like 40 million pesos, ~lus about 10 millions in vehicles
and equipment.
The operations were carried out by elements of the Cordoba and Rondon battalions �
in the departments of Guajira, E1 Cesar, and Magdalena.
Eduardo Gonzalez Perez, Eduardo Olaya, Manuel Cuellar Saltarin, Aristobulo Arias
Vence, and Robinson Pertuz Pertuz were captured on the road from S:~nta Marta to
Cienaga; in two vehicles they were carrying 153 packages of marihuana which ap-
parently were to be picked up by an airplane. They also confiscated the F-600
truck with license plate PK6745, where the cargo was being carried, plus a late-
model Toyota, used by the owners of the cargo, attd a current generator plus a
radio.
Benjamin Vega, Luis Alberto Murillo, and Carlos Galindo were arrested in the town
of Curumani, jurisdiction of Jagua de Ibirico (Cesar); hidden in their personal
equipment, they were carrying 1,000 kilograms of marihuana and they were travzling
in a vehicle with license plate XV5211.
Mario Enrique Perez was arrested an Hatonuevo, in the jurisdiction of Cuestecita;
he was tr~.~eling in a pickup truck with Venezuelan license plates, Lav861, with
22 packages of "grass."
The otl-ier operations yielded only abandoned venicles and marihuana. In the town
of Camarones, the soldiers found 70 packages of marihuana in a truck with Vene-
zuelan license plates TAS591 and a Nissan camper EAPP961 parked in a clearing,
which presumably was used as an airstrip.
A truck, with license plates TP6007, containing 143 packages of marihuana, was =
found abandoned in Cienaga.
The last operation was carried out along the Caribbean main highway, near Mingue,
where a pickup truck with 25 packages of marihuana was found.
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- [Text] A gang involved in narcotics traffic was nabbed by F-2 agents south of
Bogota; 5,327 grams of drugs and three vehicles were confiscated. The gangsters
arrested are, reading from left to right, Alberto Suarez, Carlos Angel Neira
Hurtado, and Clemente Perez Camacho. At 26-68 South lOth Avenue, agents found the
vehicles used by the traffickers which included an orange-colored 1970 Mustang with
license number AI-1763, a red 1979 [vehicle] with license number GP-6460, and a
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COLOMBIA
BRIEFS
COCAINE SEIZED--Pasto, 17 Dec-F-2 units seized 4~;ilograms o~ cocaine, with a~
high degree of purity, the value of which amounted to 8 million pesos. The drugs
were tran~ported in a private camper arriving from th~ town of San Miguel, in the
intendency of Putumapo. The authorities identified the presumed drug traffickers
- as Jairo Lopez Piedrafi~ta and Luis Alberto Ospina Vargas. [Text] [Bogota EL TIEMPO
in Spanish 18 Dec 80 Sec A p 6] 2909
BARRANQUILLA MARIHUANA SEIZURE DESCRIBED--Barranquilla--Millions in smuggled marihuana
were conf iscated in Guajira by special units of the 2nd Brigade minutes prior to
the takeoff of a modern aircraft which was to carry the drugs abroad. This happened
at a place called "La Teta," located in Upper Guajira. On arriving at the place,
the soldiers found a modern DC-3 aircraft, with United States registration number
N-21-L1N, carrying 5 tons of "grass." There was also a small dump truck which
minutes earlier had carried the smuggled goods, plus three pickup trucks which
apparently were used by the cargo's owners. 'I'he soldiers managed to capture nine
individuals who were taken to the Rondon Battalion, in Santa Marta, where the
investigation will be conducted. The load of "grass," plus Che value of the vehicles
and the aircraft, exceeds the sum of 150 million pesos, according to authorities.
[Text] [Bugota EL TIEMPO in Spanish 22 Nov 80 p 9-A] 5058
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[TextJ Yesterday, Federal Judicial Police agents unc~er orders from Comdr Jorge ;
O.ctavio Esquinca confiscated heroin worth 1,131,600 pesos on the black market. '
They also arrested five individuals, namely: Hector Marines Herrera, Jose Prado
Navarrete, Felipe Bernal Soto, Cruz Javier Frayre and Jos~ Alberto Botta Echavarri,
the latter of whom has a record of crimes against health and was the one with the ~
drugs in his possession. '
It all began on 25 November when a car in which Marines Aerrera, Prado Navarrete
and Bernal Soto were riding was stopped at the corner of 20 de Noviembre and Peru
Streets. Subsequently, Cruz Javier Frayre was arrested. !
The four men were riding in a yellow 1972 Dodge car, without license plates, owned
by Marines Herrera.
At the time that the Federal Judicial Police agents apprehended the addicts, Frayre
who was inhaling the drug attempted to conceal something with his body.
Then it was learned that he had 10 small packages in the back seat of the car; that
is, a"dose" of the drug that was being consumed. -
When the first three made their statement, they said that Frayre had invited them
to take a"gallazo," that is, to consume the heroin; but this did not occur, because
- they were captured.
Frayre himself claimed to have been addicted to the drug for years.
When questioned more closely, he said that he purchased the drugs from Jose Alberto
Botta Echavarri, wno sold them to him for $120 per gram.
Then he "cut" them; in other words, he made several small packages from the gram, -
the a~ount for a dose.
Fraqre said that he had bought the drugs from Botta Echavarri on 10 occasions.
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The next day, Botta Echavarri, alias "E1 Guero Bottas," was arrested, and they
confiscated from his residence at No 1164 Plan de Ayala and Venezuela Streets a
suitcase which contained two plastic bags filled with 410 grams of heroin.
The latter, upon being captured, refused to disclose the name of the person from
whom he bought the drugs which he later sold to addicts.
In the house in which Botta Echevarri had the heroin, they also discovered two
weapons, a 45 caliber pistol and a Rugger brand revolver, as well as a 25-caliber
squad type weapon without ammunition.
_ The five individuals in custody were booked yesterday, and were iummediately placed
at the disposal of the Federal Public Ministry agent.
6:ccomplices' Identity Withheld
- Ci:idad Juarez EL FRONTERTZO in Spanish 29 Nov 80 Sec E p 1
(Text] The investigation which put the clever drug trafficker, Jose Alberto Botta
- Echevarri, better known as "E1 6uero Botta," behind bars, is incomplete.
He refused flatly, and of course out of fear of losing his life, to state the name
of the person or persons who were supplying him with the heroin which he, in turn,
was selling to scores of local and E1 Paso addicts.
An agent of the Federal Judicial Police remarked that he could not be "pressed" in
any way because, like all traffickers, he is a"loud-mouth" and a complete coward.
If only a~and is lift~ed in front of them, they go to the second district judge to
_ cry, double up and complain of torture and beatings which they claim to have been
given by their captors to make them confess, whereas it is a well-known fact that
they are traffickers as much as anyone.
Comdr Octavio Esquinca said:"We were expecting to follow the trail from there,
- and find out where at least one of the ringleaders of the drug traffic is located."
But "E1 Botta" did not give any clue; he refused to disclose names.
He only agreed, confessed and attested in his statements that he was the owner of
- 410 grams of heroin found in his house located between Plan de Ayala and Venezuela
Streets.
~ He also admitted to havi~g supplied the 10 grams found in the possession of the
addicts Hector Martinez Herrera, Jose Prado Navarrete, Felipe Bernal Soto and Cruz
Javier Frayre, who were arrested by Federal Judicial Police agents as they were
injecting themselves with the drug in a Dodge car.
~o Remanded
Ciudad Juarez EL FRONTERIZO in Spanish 5 Dec 80 Sec E p 6
[Text] Jose Alberto Botta Echavarri and Cruz Javier Frayre were remanded to the
second district court by the Federal Public Ministry agency for crimes against
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- health. They are charged with being presuffied guilty of possession and trafficking
of hard drugs, because 10 "bags," the equiva.lent of 10 doses, were found in their
possession. There is another portion consie;ting of 400 grams, but the health center
laboratories were unable to determine wheth4:r it was actually heroin, because there
is no special equipment to make the analysi;s. The assistant Federal Public Ministry
agent, Omar Garcia Garza, announced that the other three persons charged in this
case of hard drug trafficking, Hector Marines Herrera, Jose Prado Navarrete and
Felipe Bernal Soto, were released, because it was found that they were not implicated
in the matter. Garcia Garza explained that the laboratories in this town could not
ascertain whether the bags found in Botta Echaverri's residence actually contained
- heroin. The records remained open, because evidence was sent to the cav.:.zl of the
republic, to be analyzed there. The two individuals in custody, accused of drug
trafficking, were placed at the disposal of the second district court yesterday.
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410 grams of heroin worth over a�million pesos, was arrested with Hector Marines
Herrera, Cruz Javier Frayre, Jose Prado Navarrete and Felipe Bernal Soto. "E1 Guero"
Botta was selling each gram of heroin for $120.
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SUCCESS OF 'OPERATION CONDQR' IN DRUG REDUCTION CLAIMED
- Ciudad Juarez EL FRONTERIZO in Spanish 29 Nov 80 Sec F p 1 =
~ [Text] Pista el Zorrillo, Guadalupe y Calvo, 2S Nov~--Zhe planting, cultivation
harvesting, traff icking and exporting of drugs in thE state have been reduced 97
percent.
_ Ten local deputies were briefed on the operation of the permanent campaign against
drugs, at the invitation of Antonio Quezada Fornelli, agent of the Federal Public
Ministry.
~ The iVational Army's backing has been decisi.ve in combating the crops and those
growing them.
T:ie permanent campaign against drugs is divided into 13 coordinated zonea in the
- country, and its action is concentrated on the West Sierra Madre mountain range.
- The campaign began in 1976, and is based on the development of infrastructure
programs to enable the farmers to engage in legal work.
Initially, the plan.tations were destroyed by cutting the plants; now, a3r sprinkler
systems are used, with the most advanced techniques, as well as authorized herbi-
cid~:~ the ecological impact of which is minimal.
The Best Nonmilitarized Equip~ent ir? Latin America _
The technical backup for the campaign, primarily with respect to cou~unir_ations and
aircraft, has given th~e Office of the Attorney General the largest .:nonmilitariz~d
_ equipment in Latin America.
There are 90 aircraft ~n 16 bases working on the elim?nation of the drug traffic,
putting in 3,000 hours of flying per month, with 130 pilots and 340 technicians
who provide x~aintenance for the equipment.
The crops are detected by means of an electro-optical system, with processing by
computer~, which makes it possible to determine the site on which they are located,
and the results after the fumigation.
The communications network includes 63 radio stations in a computed circuit and
with frequenctes that make contact possible with the National Defense Secretariat
_ and the Navy.
i They Fumigate Plantations
Yesterday , helicopters from the Attorney General's Office fumigated' several plan-
tations located in San Jose, in the municipality of Guadalupe y Calvo, maneuvers
which ~.:ere observed by the state legislators.
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Culiacan EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 29 Nov 80 p 7
[Text] The problem of drug addiction and the use of toxic inhalants is quite serious
in Chihuahua, but not drug trafficking or the growing of drugs, according to the
statements made by the local deputies from that state to EL SOL DE SINALOA, in an -
interview which they held in Surutato yesterday.
- The deputy and teacher Alberto Ramirez claimed that the problem being experienced -
in that neighboring state is seriuus, because the locations in which the youth are
exposed to drugs are the schools on the intermediate-upper and upper levels; and _
there has been no success to date in putt~:ng an end to that problem, which continues
to be worse each day.
Added to this is the irresponsibility of inerchants, who have refused to comply with
the requests made by the authorities, arguing that free trade ehould not be hamper-
ed, and thus enabling unsc�rupulous individuals to purchase volatile products so as _
to resell them to the youth.
When he was questioned about the existing legislation in this regard in Chihuahua,
he replied flatly that it was nonexistent, and that it was known that some apprehen-,
sion~is present concerning the matter. It has even been suggested that some sub-
stance be added to all those products to prevent their being used for any purpose
other than that for which they were invented.
Deputy Oscar Martinez Valderrama, for his part, told this morning paper that the
problem is particularly serious in locations such as Ciudad Juarez, which is a
troublesome area owing to the excessive floating population that it has as a
result of being one of the entrance points to the neighboring country to the north.
- He explained that the fixed population in that area~consists of about a million _
inhabitants, but the constant coming and going of individuals from the southern
part of the state, seeking to enter the United States, has precluded proper popu-
lation ~ontrol, and has also allowed the increase of drug addiction to occur with
greater intensity. -
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MEXICO
_ BRIEFS
HEROIN SEIZED IN SINALOA--Mexico City, 25 Nov (pEl~ --Zhe Federal Judicial Police
seized heroin worth approa-imately 10 million pesos in four different clandestine -
laboratories in Sinaloa, and also arrested five persons. Adrian Medina Vi11a, Javier
Tamayo Angulo, Hector Aeosta Molina and Manuel Cruz Beltran were arrested at the La
Juanilla and E1 Seco farms, in the Los Esmeriles mine and in the town of Culiacan,
respectively. The confiscated drugs consisted of the following: 110 grams of opium
gum, 1 kilogram of powder base for cutting heroin, 27 kilograms of marihuana, half
a kilogram of poppy seed, 100 gram~ of heroin. Al~o seized were two 30-3.0 and 30
M1 caliber rifles, a 1976 Ford car with license plates 815-ZBN and a 1978 Combi
model pickup truck with Sinaloa license plates VDZ-827. The confiscated drugs were
found in four clandestine laboratories, in which many acids and glass equipment
for processing drugs were also discovered. The three farms were located in the
municipality of Badiraguato, Sinaloa, and had been operating for years without -
being detected by anyone. [Text] [N2~evo Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish -
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MAURITIUS ' :
' ALARrQNG NUI~ER OF DRUG ADDICTS REPORPED '
Port Louis IE MAURICIEN in Freach 12 Sep 80 p 1
[Text] "There are som~ 25~000 potential drug addiats in Mauritius." said
Dr Charles Yip Tong. psychiatrist and head of the co~mittee sponsored by the
Ministry of Education to inv~stigate the causes for the rise in drug use and
make reco~nrend,ations on measures to prevent its spread. Thia rise ha~
~ already reached the point xhere drug use can be considerec~ a danger to the
entire society and ~ust be cosbsted vigorous~r.
In this light, the trnm of Port Louis held a forum on druga on 10 September 1980 ,
at the Port I,ouis theater= Dr Yip Tong, Michel Dedans, a~ournalist= Heeralall
Bhugaloo, high school princ~pal.i ~eddy 9akir, gsychologist and FatheT Mawcice
Labour participated. The forum xas chaired by 14r P. Kistnen~ chairaan of the
committee for tha sxial xell-being of Port Louis.
Dr Charles Yip Tong atxl?~edd,y Sakir apoke on the reasons for the increased
drug use~ its effects on the psyche $nd the personality of drug ad3icts. ;
In turn, Dedans and Bhugaloo forceflillq esphasized the suthoritiea' respon- ,
sibility for the deteriorating sxial taituation in I~uritius. They felt "i.t is
inconceivable that traff'ickers operate xith impunity."
"Confronted xith the authorities' passive attitude~ those Mho truly xish to
fight the drug problen nust act," atated I~r Dedans. Mr B'hugaloo added.~
"We must have the courage to hold protest marches."
An appeal xas also made to drug addicts and young people in general to make
state~ents before the Yip Tong coaeti.ttee on druga. ,
When the conneittee completes its xor3c~ it hopes to give authorities and
- young people in general proposals on ~rs to com'be~t the drug problem.
'?_'he Yip Tong conuaittee ~ rrhich ha~s ~?lready begun iie xork~ ~rill lis~en to drug
addicts ~iahing to escape this infernal cycle aad to anyone xho caa ident it~r ,
drug net~orks. The anonym3.ty of these indlivictuals t~ill be protected. :
The coamittee xi11 aiake reco~endations after imreatigating the axial ~,i.liau
and environaent of drug addicts to get to the eo~urce a~ thua d.~Rtect potential ,
drug problea~s.
The governm~nt has decided to set up a special sect?ian (Drugs Addict Unit)
in the Broxn Sequard Haspital to care for drug addicts. This secti4a ~rill ~
handle all for~a of intoxication: nicotine pai~eoning~ alcohaliam and drug ;
dependency. This project ia part ot the biemiial devplop~ent plaa published I
this xeek. ~
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NAM' ?
WIDESPREAD INCREASE IN DRUG TRAFFICKING NOTED -
Windhoek DIE REPUBLIKEIN in Afr~kaans 27 Nov 80 p 1
[Text] Marijuana is now being smuggled in the Southwest in great quantities and in
an organized manner. The people responsible for this form illegal organizations
and the result of this is that violations of the laws on narcotics have become more
widespread in the Southwest.
According to the procurator general for the Southwest, Don Brunette, there are
strong indications that violationasoias~e ~i officialtfigures indicatedcthatethere
the Soutnwest. Even as recently Y
was an increase in mari3uana cases. .
"We are now starting to get cases in the Southwest which we have never noted before.
These r:re case~ involving stronger narcotics~such as the use of pills," stated
Brunette. i
According to him, it is beginning to look as if the use of narcotics is spreading
at a greater rate. .
There have even been cases of violations of the law on drugs in military camps of
the Southwest.
"Smuggling of narcotics isori inaterfromZSl:ipsiand in nearlycalltinstancesrtherer isd ;
in vehicles and they e~ven g
an organization involved," said Brunette.
He stated that it is prei
aehere$fromeNatal3 and otherhpartseofgthesrepublic.~ the
Southwest is being smugg
- He went on to say that: "For example, ia the ever itdisnbegttnningeto appeargthat -
mari~uana is a highly organized industry. Aow
this evil may be showing its head in the Southwest as well, though not in the same
scale as in the republic.
"It is a known fact that the growing conditions for marijuana are not favorable in -
the Southwest, therefore it has to'b~e smuggled here."
According to Brunette it would appear from conviction records in courts that the
rate of crime is on the increase in the Southwest. _
"I have no doubts at all that tihere was an increase in the crime rate this year. ~
However, to a large degree this was due to an increase in the population. The 1
- natural growth of crime as a result of this increase is usually between 10 and 15 ~
percent.". ~
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FRANCE
DRUG ABUSE INCREASES, POLICE FEAR NEW FRENCH CONNECTION '
Small Villages Affected
Paris LE FIGARO in French 26 Dec 80 p 22
~Article by Jocelyn Petitpas: "From Goat's Milk Cheese to Marihuana"~
~Text~ Commenting on the 1979 crime statistics in France, Maurice Bouvier,
central director of the PJ ~Criminal Investigation Police~ said to us recently,
"While the development of terrorism and violence are disturbinq to me, what I find
particularly serious is the widespread increase in drug addiction." This state-
ment by the head of the PJ is suppor ted by �Lgures that show the consumption of
drugs has increased by 60 percent in 1 year (260 percent in 10 years). This is a ~
large increase. And it is already a known fact that this increase has continued -
at a spectacular rate throughout 198 0 as well. "Drugs are now present everywhere,
in the cities and in small villages, even the most remote," affirms Inspector
General Francois Le Mouel, in charge of the Central Office for the Repression of
Illicit Drug Traffic. The main user s are in the 18-25 year age group. Leading
(and by far) the list of drugs being used are: Hashish, heroin and cocaine and
their derivatives. Drugs present everywhere? Yes, everywhere.
Gondom (Gers) consists of 8,016 inhabrtants around a cathedral where Bossuet had
delivered some of his sermons. It i s a small sub-prefecture of a remote province.
It is in the home of Armagnac, foie gras, good living and the rasping accent,
halfway between two regional capitals: T~ulouse and Bordeaux. It is a quiet, ~
uneventful town, far from any major highways and with no SNCF ~French National ~
Railroads~ station of its own. Here, at pousse-rapiere time--the Gascon aperitif:
a"finger" of Armagnac brandy in a glass of light white wine--the sole topic of
- conversation is rugby. Rugby, the forthc:oming "bandas" festival, which brings to _
Condom thousands of sightseers, and t.he Musketeer Brotherhood Chapter,.which
brings together every September, under the cloisters, a few crowned heads and -
celebrities from all over the world,.who will then extol the virtues of Armagnac
brandy and the charm of d'Artagnan's native region.
a Drugs are not talked about. These, if one is to believe the inhabitants of
Condom, are the groblem of the large cities. "'~harik Heaven, our youth is spared.
We are far away from everythinc~," I was told by my first interlocutor at the Cafe
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des Sports near the hall where the foie gras fair was being held that day. "Our
isolation safeguards us from that kind of scourge." Indeed... -
Discreet Silence
Four days of inquiry in a region and village selected at random for a report have
revealed that the countryside is also in its turn contaminated. Nothing alarming;
- but drugs are definitely there, even though they are not (yet) a source of great
worry: a serious incic]ent 1 year ago, followed by two others not of the same
magnitude, several "joints" e:schanged among high-school students, some cannabis
- plants discovered in a neighboring village, all enveloped in a discYeet silence.
For, in the eyes of the people here, to use drugs is a shameful illness, and to
sell a few grams of powder: an incident. "One not worth getting worked up over,
- and useless and out of place to talk about," they say.
Officially, drugs came to Condom toward the end of 1979. They came from Amster-
dam where Bruno, 19, son of a highly respected family, had gone to visit some
Dutch friends. Bruno, who had already taken part in several "smoke-ins"--he -
later admitted this--- brought back some 50 LSD tablets. Loose talk by one of his _
companions led the gendarmes to discover the new-born traffic. Bruno was impri-
soned for 1 month. But he will never know the verdict of his judges. He was _
killed in an automobile accident 6 months later, 2 weeks before his trial. "My
son was neither an addict nor a pusher," says his mother today. "He did that to -
impress his friends." For bravado rati~er than desire. Always the same start.
The same web.
Mrs Casanova, headmistress of the Bossuet Lycee (600 students, 200 of whom arP
resident students), a very liberal principal--a little too liberal for some
parents--says, "I have had a few little problems, but I have handled them on a
case by case basis with the students involved and their families. ~lithout any =
outside meddlinq." _
For her, in sum, there is no need to alert the gendarmes because of a few~"joints
of 'H'" smoked just for a lark. Ever~rthing is taken care of from within. "Last
year," she says, "one of my students was glaying around with the pushess. I
threatened to fail him and he ceased his activities." ~
The Communes _
Although drugs appear to be an unknown, or almost unknown, topic among parents in -
Condom, this is not the case among their offspring. The problem involves the
younq, but they talk about it only among themselves. "To the extent that at the
school library the books most ic~ demand are those on drugs and their danqers."
Mrs Casanova is glad of this but zegrets that the Academy furnishes her only
- outdated documents.
Last summer, LSD tablets and some "joints" being carried in school satchels were
seized, and some cannabis plants were discovered and destroyed, by the gendarmes;
the planter, a swimming instructor in the region, was arrested. Adjutant Yves
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Ricaud, deputy to the captain commanding the company of gendarmerie at Condc~!!:,
- states that the advent of drugs there came with the se~tling in of certain
- communes. Under ecological pretenses, they cmrte and settle down in a remote and
- rural department. They. start out by dealing in goat's milk cheese, but quickly
corrupt the youth of the region with marihuana cigarettes." This has been true
in Gers, it has been true also in Ariege, in Lozere and elsewhere.
These "return-to-nature communes" are not the only ones responsible. Mr Ricaud
says, "For our youth, Toulouse automatically follows the lycee. And there, in the -
Place Wilson and Capitole cafes, "A" can be easily had. They buy a little for a
taste, then send some to Con~~m to make a hit with their fiormer school buddies."
"Nothing serious for the moment," says Mayor Abel Abeille, "but we muse be vigil-
- ant, for, sickness quickly becomes an epidemic." And Condom is not the exception.
On the contrary, it is an example of the scourge of the 20th century, which every
day gains additional terrain.
The malady is indeed spreading rapidly, very rapidly, despite all the steps and
measures that have been taken against it over the past several year~. in France, -
drug use increased by 60.8 percent in 1979 over 1978. There were ~.17 deaths from
over~~ses during the same year of 1979 (156 as of November 1980), whereas, in
1974, (only!) 10,810 traffickers were arrested, 3,300 users booked, and5,231 kilos
of cannabis in various forms seized by customs and the air police (6,615 kilos as _
of 1 December 1980) as compared with 1,280 in 1978. And.Mr Le Mouet's narcotics
brigade has announced that during the first 10 months of 1980, more heroin has
already been seized than during the entire preceding 3 years.
Heroin More Widely Used .
Paris LE FIGARO in French 27-28 Dec 80 p 6
~Article by Jocelyn Petitpas: "Istambul: The Heroin Capital"]
~Text~ When the French police, in 1970, dismantled what was t~hen known as the
"French Connection," they won a battle; but they did not win the war. New networks
and new channels very quickly replaced it. There has been, there still is, the
- "ant" traffic, those thousands of "small-fry" runners who come through occasion-
~ ally, carrying their few grams of heroin or a few slabs of "H" from their trip to
the Far East or to North Africa. Today, the French Connection is beginning to be
reconstituted. There is also the Chinese Connection based in Hong Kong, and more
recently the Turkish network. Despite the efforts of all the world�s police, the
- drug trade is still flourishing.
Hashish is being sold almost opcnly in the Latin Quatter at the approaches to
Place Saint-Michel. In Amsterdam, heroin is being sold in the streets (or vir-
tually so) in certain disreputable quarters. Although the most commonly used
drug is still cannabis in resin or herb form, coming from the Middle East, Morocco
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and most recently Erom Bl.ack Africa, heroin has made a veritable breakthrough.
According to Mr Le Mouet, head o� the narcotics brigade, "In France, the addicts
are going in more and more for the "hard" drugs. And nine times out of ten, it is
- heroin."
- An Inaccessible Region
Heroin from the Far East, particularly from the poppy fields of the only too well
known "Golden Triangle," where Thailand, Laos and Burma meet, supplied, still in
1976, 97 percent of the world market. Acaording to Walter Leamy, top American
official in the Interpol organization's worldwide fight against the drug traffic,
"The end of the Vietnam War has put an end to that supremacy. Of course, opium
from Thailand continues to come across the borders, and will continue doing so for
some time, especially since an exceptional harvest is foreseen for 1981: 700 tons
versus 240 tons last year owing to the drouqht; however, the near East and Middle
East now have the monopoly. In 1980, 80 percent of the heroin consumed has come
from those countries that are currently experiencing political difficulties, like
Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, 5yria, Lebanon and Turkey." Because of either war or
destabilization, these coUntries are no longer able to exercise effective control
_ over the cultivation of poppies and the opium trade.
Walter Leamy cites this fact: "There exist_on the shores of the Mediterranean, in
a region that encompasses parts of four countries--Iran, Syria, Lebanon and
Turkey--hundreds of clandestine labor atories that supply most of the heroin being
consumed." Of course, a substantial quantity still comes from the Far East, but
"it is from the above region, which i s practically inaccessible at present for
many reasons, that most of the consumption in Europe and the United States is
being supplied." How is it being channeled? "More and more via highway and _
railroar] rouces, less and less via the airways," says Walter Leamy. Tightened -
airport controls have undoubtedly had something to do with this.
Without underestimating the fact that after having prohibited the culti~ration, the
Turkish government--for economic reasons--decided to~aqaim authorize it, Turkey's
poppy fields are not the main problem. Owing to its geographic situation and its
political instability, Turkey has become a drug traffic hub. It all qoes through
Istambul. It is the hub and the principal purveyor by way of its tens of thou-
sands of nationals living in various European countries.
The powder is being carried through i n baggage and freight shipments of other
merchandise. It is impossihle to search everything, impossible to have it all
sniffed out by dogs especially trained for the purpose. It is also being carried
in personal clothing. In sum, in a thousancl and one ways, the traffickers are
displaying a qreat deal of imagination. Like the runner who, recently, had
sealed his "load" in a protective covering, then swallowed it. The covering g~ve
way. He died. Everyone, however, doe s not take such intensive sisks. The less
so since they are thoroughly familiar with the "difficult byways" and those by
way of which they run little risk of being caught. Thus, those Eastern countries
that have long preferred to ignore the drug phenomenon--they are b~~~.nnsng..~only
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now to recognize it--are privileged "transit~," particularly Bulgaria and East '
Germany. Runners debark in East Berlin from an Aero�lot plane arriving from
a Middle Eastern capital, and proceed to West Germany by train. Mr Leamy says:
"This has now become the rule and there is nothing we can.do about it inasmuch as
the EaSt European countries are not~members of Interpol." .
'Marseilles Chemists' and the Mafia
The Turkish network and the Chinese of Hong Kong are cont_*olling and supplying
the Amsterdam market and the "Marseilles chemists," who are trying to reestablish
the French Connection. If one is to believe Dick Schoneveld, head of the Dutch
~ narcotics service, "This famous French supply netw~ork was put back in operation _
by the very same persons who served prison terms when it was dismantled in 1970."
He made this statement in Chiang Mai (Thailand), where th~ European Drugs Confer- -
ence was held toward the end of November, which was attended by representatives :
- from 23 countries, in the persons of heads of their specialized services in the
_ fight against traffickers.
Inspector General Le Mouel, who attended it and who had been one of the key
_ operatives in that dismantling, believes the French Connection has indeed been
reactivated by an alliance among French traffickers, the former "Marseilles
chemists" and the Mafia. And the political problems currently afflicting Italy
have facilitated the establishment of these new Iaboratories on Italian soil, in
the Milan area and in Sicily.
"The uncovering, in 1979 and in 1980, of two clandestine laboratories at La Ciotat
- (Bouches-du-Rhone) and at Chambon-su~-Lignon (Haute-Loire) discouraged these
French Connection oldtimers, whereupon they allied thea~selves with the Mafia _
- traffickers. This was subsequently confirmed by the recent discovery of three -
Yarge ].aboratories at San Remo, Milan and Palermo. All the chemists involved
were French members of the Marseilles-Cote d'A2ur gang."
.Countermeasures Told
Paris LE FIGARO in French L9 Dec 80 p 8
~Article by Jocelyn Petitpas: "Dikes Against the Tide"~ -
~Text~ "The use of drugs is increasing in France; this is borne out by the _
figures, But let us not overdramatize the fact. This increase is not massive
in character." Very moderate as always in her statements, Mrs Monique Pelletier,
minister for the condition of women, officially responsible since February 1980
for coordinating the fight against drug addiction, Eeels that to combat this
- increase the first requirement is a harsh repression of the traffic. "it is
the availability of the drug that brings about the increase in demand. If the
drug were unavailable or hard to come by, there would be less addicts." ~
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In the opinion of Walter Leamy, the top American oEticial in Interpol for the
fight aqainst traffickers, this repression is resulting in nothing more than
arresting and condemning a few small-fry runners: "The situation," he says, "is
very serious--less so in France than in the United States, in Holland and in the
FRG (600 deaths from overdoses in 1979, 80 of which in the city of Berlin alone),
and police everywhere are wasting their time catching the little traffickers. To
more effectively repress the traffic, it would pay to put a closer watch over the
activities of certain European and American big businessmen who are making
substantial sums in the import-export trade. The fact is we know who the big
traffickers are. But working our way up the network to reach them, to nail them,
is such a complex matter that investigations are never, or hardly ever, success-
- ful." The "bigwigs" have been very able to shelter themselves.
The fact is that of 810 traEfickers arrested in France in 1979, the vast majority
were occasional runners, very few were professianals, and of the l~tter, all were
"peons."
No Long-Term Objectives
The traffic must be fought against, and preventive measures taken against the
use of drugs, all drugs without exception. "No distinction must be drawn between
substances. They are all dangerous in varying degrees. There is no innocuous
drug." She aims this statement at those who seek and labor to de-penalize soft
drugs such as hashish.
Of the 11 ministries concerned, five are more so than the others: Interior, Armed
Forces (which heads the Gendarmerie), Justice, Education, Public Health. For 1
year now, Mrs Pelletier has been striving to bring about a concerted drive. "No
long-term objectives," she says, "for the phenomenon is in constant development.
What we need is to better coordinate our efforts, not to try to settle the
problem once and for all, but to stem its advance. That in itself would be a
major victory." It is difficult to draw up an initial balance sheet of the `
coordxnation effort; however, according to the minister for the condition of
women, The 35-percent increase in seizures of drugs and in the number of traf-
fickers"and users booked is evidence of the effectiveness of the fight we are
- waging." To this is being said in the Q~ai des Orfevres, at the old "Mondaine":
"Above all, it shows that drug use has increased considerably."
Many measures have been put into effect recently. The Ministry of Interior has
converted some former minors brigades into "narcotics brigades," particularly
~ in the Parisian departments, it has created a headquarters "listening post" in
Bangkok for the repression of the illicit drug traffic, and it has trained
- specialized police agents. Currently, there are 214 civil service personnel
in Mr Le Mouel's services, some 100 specialists, and 485 inspectors who are being
used part-time in the city police forces. The rural sector is not being spared:
The gendarmes are also receiving specialized training. The description of a
cannabis plant is one of the questions that may be put to them in an examination.
" The Customs Service, which is doing a considerable job to judge by the large
quantities being seized, is training its agents to "single out" runners more
effectively, so as to avoid as many systematic searches as possible, which in
airports and at border points can create monstrous bottlenecks.
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Information a Priority
At the juridical level, there are now speciali2ed magistrates in all the major
jurisdictions, for, according to Mrs Pelletier, "Judges should render their decis-
ions in accordance with the personality and behavior ~f the drug offender, which
is permitted by the Law of ~970. It is obviously not appropriate to deal in trie
same manner with a young user as with a trafficker." Because she considers that
clrugs must be addressed as a social problem among others, she takes a:stand as
regards information. "Drugs are neither a fatality nor a mysterious illness. _
- And only through complete knowledge can we fight e�fectively against something.
it is not a matter, however, of developing identical information for the public
as a whole. Drugs are not tobacco. Every day adds~strength to my conviction
that information must be properly adapted. Any and all information must not be
made available to any and all persons. There are youths who do not need to be
taught about drugs because they have no interest in them." Hence, the nonobliga-
~.ion being placed on the"Health Clubs," which have been formed in the lycees, to
deal with the drug problem. In Monique Pelletier's view, action must be coordin-
ated at all levels. "The teachers, the head of the district association for
youths in trouble, the doctor, the police superintendent, must all know eacli -
other, must get Cogether and cooperate with each other. It is the most effective
means for cambating drug addiction. Drugs are the concern of all." Lastly, one
of the steps to be taken as rapidly as possible is: the regulation of the sale ~
of ether in pharmacies. This is a proposed objective that Mrs Pelletier will
- submit to Parliament.
Repression, prevention, information, coordination of ef~ort and treating drug:~
addicts to help them achieve rehabilitation: Many associations being subsidized
entirely or in part by the state or local collectivities are carrying on a major _

- effort in this sense. But there are no miractes. Be it at the Marmottan Hospi- ~
tal, Dr Olivenstein's services where heroin addicts are being treated, Dr Brule's _
therapeutic chain, in the Yvelines, or at Dr Francis Curtet's "Trait d'union,"
which "rehabilitates" addicts during their imprisonment and after their release
from prison, the percentage of drug addicts definitely withdrawn from addiction
is small. Discouragingly small: between 10 and 20 percent. "The failure rate is
high, but even were only one to be saved in ten, perseverance is indispensable,"
says Dr Curtet. "Yes, I think it is worthwhile," adds Jean-Marc, son of a
kinestherapist in Sarcelles (8 months of prison and 4 years of withdrawal from
heroin), saved from his artificial paradise through the efforts of the "Trait
d'union."
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TWELVE ARRESTED IN ANTIDRUG BLITZ IN SOUTH
Bari LA GAZZETTA DEL MEZZOGIORNO in Italian 14 Nov 80 pp 1, 18
[Article by Elio Matarrese: "Antidrug Blitz Fram Bari to Brindisi"]
~ [Text] A noisy antidrug blitz, which burst forth simultaneously at dawn yesterday
in Bari, Fasano, Polignano and Brindisi, after 8 months of investigations and
surveillance, led to the arrest of 12 people. The police of the customs branch
' believe that they have inflicted the greatest blAw to the drug traffic in Apulia.
The organization was active from Brindisi to Fasano and Bari. They are the largest
centers of this traffic, which during the last few months had grown enormously,
and it had ramifications in other regions.
Those arrested are all accused of associating for criminal purposes, trafficking,
possession and sale of drugs. Almpst all have previous reco rds; among them, how-
~ ever, there are a well-known busiaessman from Bari, with no previous record, and a
girl, also from Bari, who is a leftist estremist awaiting trial for subversive
association and participation in an armed gang.
All were arrested on a special warrant from thP deputy public prosecntor of Bari,
Dr Vito Savino, who directed tfie operation. Those arrested are: Luigi Antonio
Galluzzi, 25, born in Sao Paolo, Brazil, living in Polignano a Mare, 7 Via Magnisi,
the owner of a boutique; Marina Carollo, 25, from Lugo di Vicenza, Ga13.uzzi's girl-
- friend, who lives with him and is a known drug addict; Giuseppe d'Onofrio, 26,
from Fasano, living at 5 Via Angiulli, unemployed; Isabella Leone, 24, also from
Fasano, living at 6 Via Cesareo; Francesco Cianciola, 61, the businessman from
Bari with no record, very well known in town circles, the owner of a duty-free
ahop in the port section, a contractor for work on ships in transit, residing at
159 A Via Dalmazia; Francesco Mancini, a 35-year-old smuggler from Fasano, called
Ciccio, living at 275 Via No~a; Francesco Coppola, a 30-year-old from Caimiano,
living fn Brindisi ~t 51 Via Pastrengo, uaemployed with a previous record for
smuggling; Gennaro de Angelis, 25, from Fasano, 8 Via Mignozzi, a merchant; Marco
de Carlo, 27, from ~3sano, 104 Via Goito, unemployed; Mario Ruggeri, another
well-known smuggler from Fasano, 27, called Mariolino il canotto, 88 Via Mignozzi;
Gaetano Masiello, 29, from Bari, residing at 102 Via Giulio Petroni, one of the
biggest consumer-dealers in heroin, Imowa to the palice; Francesca Ventricelli,
27, from Bari, living in Piazza Carabe~lese, the leftist extremist. Rece~xtly
having joined the ranks of the Nazi-Maoists, Ventricelli wi11 be tried in
- December at the Bari Assizes court on the charge ot subversive assflciation (in
her apartment they found subversive propaganda material) and participation in an
armed gang.
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The entire operation was carried out simultaneously and it was concluded at 0400
hours yesterday. In the apartments of those arrested no large quantities of drugs
were found. But that was not the principal. aim of the broad raid. The police
wanted to capture simultaneously the leaders of the organization. 't'his morning
they will be arraigned by Dr Savino. The magistrate will interrogate them in the
~ Bari prison, where they are being held.
Now the investigation is probably moving on to another level. They are trying to
ascertain the links between this organization and other gangs (they keep speaking
of the dangerous Neapolitan gang, which is said to have invested hundreds of
millions on the Apulia markets). Nothing leaks out officially because the entire
investigation is being conducted secretly. Dr Savino limited himself to saying:
"We have gathered very compromising evidence against the 12 people arrested, which
will be made public at the time of the trial. I cannot add anything else." -
Even if the task awaiting the police remains length3~ and difficult, a major result
has already been achieved. The terminal of this traffic--according to many
sources--was Bari. "Bari is drowning in drugs," the police said several days
ago, "there are so many arriving, probably from Brindisi." Now, the "powder that
kills" should not be easy to find for some time.
The drugs--great quantities of heroin in a pure, or almost pure, state--arrived
in Brindisi on ships which had been loaded in ports of the East. Some drugs were
placed on the Apulia market by the Fasano gang, the rest were sent to northern
cities. Thus, there was confirmation of the suspicions of the investigators who
believe Brindisi and Bari are the southern cities ~most involved in the heroin
traffic (the other base is said to be Genoa).
The Fasano gang had playe d a major role in the influx of heroin into Bari.
"Luis Galluzzi, D'Onofrio and Coppola were supposedly the kingpins in the traffic.
~ When the drugs arrived in the city, other people went into action. One of them
is said to be--according to the police--the same Francesco Cianciola, wealthy
businessman, millionaire, someone above suspicion, who may have been caught up
and involved because of his friendship with Luis Galluzzi. (Another not so
irrelevant detail is that Galluzzi and his girlfriend Mariera Carollo were -
arrested at Cianciola's villa, on the coast south of Bari. It is certain that the _
Bari busines:,man frequently entertained the two.) The heroin entered Bari through
the Corso Cavour--Via lmb riani neighborhood. Tltere the dealers met with the
retaiiers and with the addicts, whu from then on were completely under the thumb ,
of the organization. But why did the blitz bzgin only yesterday? _
Th~ police "were working" on the drug problem for many months, approximate~y since
March. Shadowing and investigations in cooperation with the Brindisi Group
ascertained that the drug traffic was increasing excessively.
So as not to compromise the result of the inquiries, the Rome antidrug cente,r was
contacted and it sent to Fasano an undercover agent, a long-haired brigadier, who
in a few days managed to gain the confidence of the or~anization. The agent
arranged a big "deal." Pretending to be the emissary from another organization
he succeeded in getting to the leaders. His gang--he said--could invest 150
million in the purchase of a laige quantity of heroin. He seemed a"good" contact.
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Other military personnel in civilian clothes supported the big blitz from out-
stde, ready to enter the action at the opportune nament. But unexp~ctedly the
Fasano men suspected a trick, as a result of a word from ab ove. Perhaps from some
person above suspicion who had been protecting the gang, f rom some irnportant "mole." �
The raid is off, the undercover agent drops from circulation and returns to the _
- ranks, but he has gathered a lat of evidence. The same evidence which led Dr
_ Savino to unleash a squall of arrest warrants? w
Along parallel lines to the investigation on drugs, i.he police are working on
apparently related cases. Galluzzi, an ambiguo us character who is said to have
- entertained even famous singers and actors (one of them used to 1�geG a fix" at his
_ house wfien he came to Apulia) seems implicated also in arms trafficking (he was
found in possessl.on of a gun and of ammunition hel.d illegally) . In the Bari
villa in which Cianciola were arrested they also found hun.dxeds of syringes,
tourniquets and equipment for the use of heavy drugs, also 51 ar.cheologi.r.al
"pieces" from ~landestine excavat~ons. They consis~ of Greek vases and ob~ects
brought to light perhaps by "grave robbers" who work arour~d Taranto and
[translation unknown], dating back to the period betweeYi the si.xth and fourth
century before Christ.
The archeological material was determined to be of ~aiestia~,able value by an offi-
cial of the Fine Arts staff, who examined the p ieces yester day afternoon.
- Along with the drugs is the possibility therefo re of another case which remains
~o be considered and studied in depth: the clandestine market in archeologic~l
finds. Another traffi^ which means billions. -
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POLICE BREAK UP TWO LARGE HEROI?1 SMUGGI~ING RINGS
Stockholm DAGENS NYHETER in Swedish 11 Dec 80 p 11
[Article by Bo EngzellJ
[Text) As a result of searching for the murderer of a female prostitute narcotics
" addict in Malmo, the police have been able ta break up two large heroin gangs.
= Narcotics worth millions have been confiscated. Fifteen people have been arrested
or their arrest demanded, and many more arrests are 3.u~ainent.
The Malmo police are afraid that Sweden like West Germany will be flooded with
large quantities of heroin at reduced prices, which can multiply several times the
~ already large number of heroin abusers.
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~ The reason f~r the anticipated new wave of heroin, according to commissioner Willy
Olsson of the narcotics division of the Malmo police, is that the "Golden Triangle"
--Burma, Laos and Tahiland--wants, after a good harvest of narcotics plants, to re-
gain the European market which was lost to Turkey, itan and Iraq.
~ "For smugglers from tre 'Golden Triangle' to be able to take over agian in Sweden
we can expect large, abundant quantities of heroin at reduced prices," com~issioner
, Olsson said.
"This means, in addition to war between the gangs, the risk that the number of users
will climb sharply. That has happened in Wes~ Germany, where reduced heroin prices
have already been introduced. We are ar"raid this wave wil;. soon reach Sweden."
"Only the Beginning"
Fifteen big dealers and sellers from two Malmo ~~angs have already been apprehended~
"But it is only the beginning of the investigatton," said chief prosecutor Sten
Runerheim. "So far we just seen the tip of the iceberg. Narcotics some to Malmo
from various parts of the world."
- As the gangs fight for customers, the narcotics abusers, violence is increasing
in Malmo.
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More and more of the dealers who have been apprehended are armed with guns, commis-
sioner Olsson revealed. Many abusers buy heroin on credit, There are young people
who owe dealers 50,000 kroner. If they don't pay, they are threatened.
For example, a women dealer who has just been arrested recently stopped a youth
when he was ~riving his car. The youth owed her 50,000 kronor. The dealer queen
and her "gorilla" jumped into the car.
"The youth was ordered to drive to a parking place. There he was severely beaten
with an iron pipe and his car was knocl:ed to pieces by the "gorilla," commissioner
Olsson said.
The big move against heroin dealers started shortly after a woman prostitute narcot-
- ics addict was found murdered several months ~>.go in a house which was to be demol-
ished in Malmo. The murderer is still at large.
"It cannot be precluded that the murder was co~nitted by a narcotics dealer to whom
th e woman owed money," commissioner Wally Olsson said. "There have been similar
murders in Copenhagen."
According to commi ssioner Olsson, depressing scenarios have been revealed in con- _
nection with the narcotics investigatiens. Desperate parents plead with the police
to take care of their children after the parents have been threatened by addicts
and dealers because the children's debts were not paid.
A number of families have been ruined through paying their children's debtsto aeale_~.
In connection with the arrest of big deal~rs, a number of big pimps have also been
exposed. One had several kilograms of church silver hidden away. _
None of the gangs unmasked up to now have had connections with the Danish narcotics
market. The heroin has been imported directly to Malmo. The confiscations which
_ ha�ve taken place indicate that much of it has come by air.
Many of the dealers who have exposed have mixed small quantities of strychnine with
the heroin.
"Poisonous doses have not been involved, but che strychnine works in such a iaay that
the heroin injection does not "take" and the addict quickly has to get more heroin.
This increases the earnings of cynical dealers," commissioner Olsson said.
The Malmo police are of the opinion it has been clearly established that the step
f rom cannabis to heroin aUuse is not great.
"We have been able to establish that many young people who have used cannabis quickly
become dependent upon heroin. Heroin abuse has become an everyday matter," commis-
sianer Olsson said in conclusion. ~
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