JPRS ID: 9819 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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3G June 1981
Worldwide Re ort
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NARCC~TICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
CFOUO 29/81)
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~ 30 June 1981
WORLDWIDE REPORT
NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 29/81)
CONTENTS
ASIA
MALAYSIA
- Briefs
Kuala Lumpur Narcotics Seizure 1
NEW ZEALAND
Heroin Seizures in 5 Months Triple Last Year's Haul
(THE EVENING POST, 21 May S1) 2
More Frequent Seizures of Traffickers' Assets Urged
(THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD, 3 Jun 81) 3
Briefs
~ Police Heroin Raid 4
Hong Kong Worker Charged 4
Heroin Importation Charge 4
Church Leaders Sentenced 4
Odyssey House Supported 5
PtiKISTAN
Big Hashish Haul in islamabad: Six Held
(Anwar Iqbal; THE MUSLIM, 19 May 81) 6
Briefs
Smugglers Held; Opium Seized ~
70 Lakh Charas Seizure ~
Opium Seized ~
- 7 Kilos Opium Seizure ~
Narcotica RECOVered ~
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PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC QF CHINA
Briefe
Heroin Sale; lwio Charged 8
THAILAND
Fighting Tide of Heroin Smuggling; Challenge for Officials
(SUN, 23 May 81) 9
LATIN AMERICA
ARGENTINA
Briefs
Drug Traffickers Arreate3 11
BOLIVIA
Briefs
Drug Arreat 12
BRAZIL
Police Dismantle T~ao Cocaine Distilleriea in One Week
(0 GLOBO, 15, 19 May S1) 13
Large Capacity
Cali-Miami Connection
Second Distillery Diecovered
Neo-Nazi Group Chief Engaged in Trafficking Sought
(0 GLOBO, 14 May 81) 17
Police Surprise Two Traffickers Who Robbed I~inas Bank
(JORNAL DO BRASIL, 10 ~tay 81) 20
Combined Operation Neta Marihuana, Cocaine
(0 GLOBO, 14 May 81) 22
Police Deatroy Marihuana W~rth 300 Million Cruzeiros
(JORNAL DQ BRASIL, 13 May 81) 24
Briefa
Marihuana Shipment 25
Couple Arreated With Cocsine 25
CHILE
Briefa
- Cocaine Seized, Peddlers Arreated 26
Santiago Cocaine Traffickera 26
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MEXICO
Ring of Opium Gum Traffickers Being Tracked Down
(EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO, 28 May 91) 27
Succesaful Drug Raida Conduct~d in Coahuila Towns
(EL DIA1tI0 DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS, 9 May 81) 29
Marihuana Trafficking Ring Broken Up
(EL DIAR,IO DE Ni1EV0 LAREDO, 26, 28 May 81) 31
Shipment Seized
Traffickers Make Statements
_ Drug War Motive for Attack on Prisoner
(EL MANANA, 5 May 81) 35
Briefs
Opium Gum Seized 3~
Jailed Trafficker Transferred 37
Cocaine Trafficking Suapect 38
Opium Gum Distributors Caught 38
Cocaine, Heroin, Opium Seizures 38
Marihuana, Pills Burned ~8
PERU
Drug Traffickers Rule Border Town
(Ne~tor Ruiz; EXPRESO, Jun 81) 40
Briefs
Drug Traffickers 41
NE,AR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
IRAN
Antinarcotics Headquartera Finds Druga in Many Cities
(KEYHAN, 2 Jun 81) ....................................b.. 42
WEST EUROPE
- FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERkIANY
Asylum Policy Said To Aid Drug Smuggler8
(Wolfgang Phillipp; FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE, 30 May 81) 47
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ICELAND
Justice Minister Details Narcotics Situation to Althing
(MORGt1NBLADID, 23 May $1) 50
Justice Minister's Report Showa Serxousneae of Drug Problem
(Editorial; MORGUNBLADID, 23 May 81) 54
NORWAY
Customs Reporta Hashiah Seizures Increase by a Third
(ARBEIDERBLADET, 20 May 81) 55
Defense Command Wants To Tighten Penalties for Drug Use
(AFTENPOSTEN, 9 May 81) 57
Parliament Approves Longer Sentencea for Drug Offensea
(AFTENPOSTEN, 27 May 81) 59
Paper Says New Maximum Druge Sentences Are Too Short
(Fditorial; AFTENPOSTEN, 27 Ma~ 81) 61
Briefs
Biggest Bergen Drugs Case 63
TURKEY
Briefs
Four Drug Sellers Sentenced 64
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MALAYSIA
BRIEFS
KUALA LUNIPUR NARCOTICS SEIZURE--Kuala Lumpur, May--Police and narcotics officers
- seized about 12 kilogrammes of raw opium woYk about 9G,u00 dollars (42,000 US)
in a raid on a suspected den in the predominantly Chinese area of Chow Kit Road
in the heart of tnis city last night. They also found morphine and five bottles
of prepared opium. Police are looking for a 60-year-old Singaporean to help them
~ in investigations. City CID chief Syed Othman Syed Ali said today: "We believe
the opium den was a drug distributing centre." Po].ice received a tipoff about
two weeks ago and put the den under surveillance. But the activities soon
_ stopped and late yeste�rday, the narcotics officers closed in. They searched
the premises and found about 85 opium pipe heads, a pipe for smoking opium and
other utensils hidden under the wooden floor. Over the past two weeks, the
narcotics unit has arrested 59 people, including three women, on suspicion of
possessing dedah (drugs). The officers have also seized 136 grammes of heroin.
NAB/AFP [Text] [Rangoon THE WORKING PEOPLE'S DAILY in English 14 May 81 p 12]
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I~W ZEAI.~ND
HEROIN SEI2URES IN S MONTHS TRIPLE LAST YEAR'S I~AUL
- Wellington THE EVENtNG POST in English 21 May 8~ p 9
/Text7 Auckland, May 20 (PA)--With less than half the year gone, heroin seizures by .
police and custoens investig~tors are already three times greater than last yEar's ~
total interception.
3l~nitfcaat eelrre~ in 'T61i
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wu foII'owed' bjr' aot a rrprbe. ~ tre propodtlaa o! a third
Aockl~od~ Taoraa`a. ~0 810-gram morprlee , ~ mv 1~ Sbppoe+e.
Wellin`ta~ nd Danedln ~elsare, ~bo i~ A~ckltnd.. Naive ~~N iut a~ul~ re-
d~~l~g t~e put ~evee and j~t ~sdat 11 ~aou port tn Padhme~t~ tbt ~
weeks h~ve petrod t6e ot herolt 'ehed in Wel� Ss a1d t~t drt` 1n- ~m~~, ~
~ ~ ~ =1 ~ ~ N~ vettf a(~ors wosld be ~�W~ ~
lion muk. arin6 tl~e Pa~t 19 ~7' ~�0~ applie~ ud are~d by
T61~ year'~ 6eroin day~ tavatl~ton Inve p e c t e d d r ~ a e a- ~ 187g w~
�ei:are total ot 730 ~ehed 29 gcamsot beroia~ ~P~~ ~0 ~~reac~ u caco~ra~a~
gram~, coapled with m Duedi~, a taal o[ 125: vuage ot ebe dlusion. e~' ~ tbi� au e:-
more than 8 0 0 ~a~ ot pram~ ln two ~epaKte � ~ Casee~ ald t6ac P~'~ted to eoetlase Into
morp6in~, me~m at leat Aaciclu~l ieKar~~ aod poIlce .esd cirtom~ ot- .
i2 miUioo ot 6erd dng~ ~p at Taarn+;a. ficat' wert worktes ta Beloro t~, he aM,
6as been iotercepted ~ea~act dreet va}s~ . ~ jetbee w~ll .to. qd~e. t~e ~~~~~h �t ~'0~0
4efore 1t reaeYed di~- ~ of tl~e ~itves b di[- ~ater hp~ No ~pecial ~ q�~~ a~
tribatioa ktworb. tic~tt to ae~ea correctlY ~ provbiou had beea oec- ~S ~~�g
D~rin` 1980 poilce wi~oat tre k~owa pvity es~ary to detect dra~
a a d c~~o t o m� i n- n~, . . Waltoa tkn g~ve
ve~tf~aton (~r~tercepted . g~~;~; ~ five eea~om comidered
219 grami ot 6eroln aed moepti~e fetcrfa~ ~~t ae ~ot t6e to be retpoe~ible for tbe
t6e cantry~ . ~eitares ro fu had be~ decWe la roroin.
~~~e draady dc- weU ov~;t
m~
Uoa
~ ~P~~ bY atr, tbe other 1'Yare ware:
Wrd dre mu- 'rq ~ea. . � tacna~d P~n bY
t almat ezdnetg ~
p1e ~aqo~ He �ald tte poltce Po~ a ms~or ~upecn.
~at t6~ 1981 bamPeT The ~ei~~re tl ~es aero o0aule co esamate � Th~ arrest ot many
opi~m crop in Thalland ~vere co~tirmed ~ 6Y ~v6at perceah~e ot draB ~Y P~ in tbe heroin
ha~ aiready made iti ~e ~ty /h~ctor oi tYe i m p o r t: w e r e l n� netWOrk. lncreaeed
mark oa the New Zealand . drat eiforoemest ~ fa- "t~ we'd p~1de~ tor drnQ o[fen�
dr~ ~cene. ~~P~� ~ dert. ~ A~borta e in
teW eace ~eetloa at
~nt lar~e eelzara l lce n~tio~~t Ae~d pin~ tbe greater put.'~ ~0m ~
bepn with a S3�6nm i~' W ea~t Aals toarce ~rea~.
6eroin laterceptioo at ~p~ tfve
i~ea~to~ New Zealaed lice ~~~~ble pabllcity
Aactl~nd Internatlo�al q~ ~ 6ave dmt ~Vboa v~i'cen v~a to maay~ dra~ of-
_ Alrport laet mat6, w6kh ~ef:ares retlected tYe b~~~ ~ ~~n p~~ New Zea-
led W a maa beleg Jatled ' bumper crop of raw gY~9 ~~~~D' laad ~ad overua~.
f~ ~eveo yean. opi~m ie Ada, aad went -m~ W rewlve
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I~W ZEALAND
MORE FREQITENT SEI2URES OF TRAF'FICI~RS' ~.SSETS URGED
Auckland THE NEW 2EALAND HERALD in English 3 Jun 81 p 5
/Excerpt7 Procedures for seizing assets held by comricted drug traffickers should ~
be streamlined, Parliament was told last night, and more frequently applied by the
courts.
~ The call waa made by 1GIi~ he ~said traded in miserq tor! ; in' the approach towards
W. F. Thampson (Govt- enormoua protiks and with: ;�~softer"drugs.
jinrowhenua) moving the total dtaregard for young� �"I think the Government is
address-in-reply to t6e lives ae:::.vyed by serious, ; right to maintain a firm line
speech from the Throae, the drug abuse. ~ to control drug abuse in the
fn;st maior debate of the Mr Thompson rejected as ~ community," he said.
parhamentary session. i"emotive nonsense" calls Eor '"It is a social evil with
~ir Thompson, a former~ the reintroductioa of the 'potentially destructive conse-
Crewn Prosecutor in Hoag: ~death penalty or imprison- quences and we still do not
Song, satd a positive .~tep ' ment without full benefit of know enough about long-
had been taken last qear to I tl~e legal procesa. , term effects of using such
e~sure vehtcles used in con- Tra{fickers must be hit ~Bs a~ marijuana. ~
nectibn- with drug otfences hard in the et, however, "Without much bet; -r
nufd be Eorfeited.. ~ kno~vledge, better testin
~~ut thera wae room for and,it a:aa appomting that~ and treatment facilities, g
the fiaing and torfeiture pra ;
iinprovement in the area of visioas of the 1978 amend- s~ ~ J~~ication for
pepalties for convicted. drug, ment of thee Misuae of Drugs a less tirm approach than
tcdtfickers aad users and for~ ~Act ~waa not used more often at presenk"
- reeovering the proceeds of bq the courts.
- dduq-related crime. ~
.i~lad in tactan ldl! ir,stead ~Firm .Line
he usual tails, Mr Thomp- There were difficulties in
~ had an audience of about lapplying those aspe~ts of the
_ 1SQ~ in the public gallery as law, he said, and there was
r~Rll'as felloa? MPs. justiflcatjon for reviewing
''~jonsense' them and making the seiztu~e
~ ma or thrust of his ad- of . assets a. "more stralght-
~ fonvaxd and s~lutary pro-
s was to advacat~ a con-
t~ ed firm line by the Gov- Mr Thompson said there
entaga~nst "greedy and ,should alao be no slackening
~ less drug dealers, whom
cso: s3zo ~
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NEW ZEALAND
BRIEFS
POLICE HEROIN RAID--Six people were arrested and about 15 grams of heroin were
- seized yesterday in the latest bid by Wellington police to curtail ~he supply of
drugs in the region. In their third major drugs operation for the month, 50
� uniform and CIB staff raided addresses in Wellington, Porirua, Lower Hutt, and
U~per Hutt. They recovered about 15 grams of heroin w1.th a street value of around
$2000. Detective Inspector Brian Hartley, in charge of the operation, said this
figure could go as high as $5000, depending on the drug's purity. Police are
waiting on an ana.lyst's report from the DSIR. Mr Hartley said heroin and morphine
were the main drugs involved. He said yesterday's aearch was tYie result of several
months of planning. ~Excerpts~ ~Wellington THE EVEIJING POST in Eng~.ish 28 May 81
p 4~
HONG KONG WORKER CHARGED--Tauranga, Today (PA)--A cargo clerk was charged ~n
Tauranga District Court yesterday with illegally importing heroin into New
Zealand and supplying heroin. Fuk Shing Law, 30, of Hong K~ng, working in the
NPdlloyd Freetown berth at the port of Tauranga, was also charged with supplying
heroin to Peter Francis Atkinson. ACkinson, 37, a self-employed builder, of
Auckland, faced a charge of possessing heroin. ~Excerpt~ ~Wellington THE EVENIi~G
POST in English 19 May 81 p 4~
- HEROIN IrIl'ORTATION CHARGE--Auckland, Today (PA)--Tw~ Whangarei brothers charged
with importing heroin were remanded for a depositions hearing when they appeared
in the District Court. Mark Anthony Granich, 22, unemployed Y~airdresser, and
Michael Shane Granich, 26, unemployment beneficiary, both of Kamo, Whangarei, did
not plead to the charge of importing heroin on May 17, ~Text~ ~Wellington THE
EVENING POST in English 20 May 81 p 27~
CHURCH LEADERS SENTENCED--Two leaders of the Neo-American Church who used
marijuana as a sacrament were sentenced in the High Court aC Auckland yesterday.
Mr Justice Speight sentenced Edward John Comer, a 49-year-old minister of reli~i~n
to 12 months in jail on two charges of cultivating cannabis and possessing cdnna-
_ bis for supply. Judith Anne Comer, a 37-year-old housewife, was given a 12-month
suspended sentence after being found guilty of possessing cannabis for supply.
Both of the accuaed had pleaded not guilty. ~Excerpt~ LAuckland THE NEW ZEALAND
HERALD in English 21 May 81 p 4J
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ODYSSEY HOUSE SUPP~RTED--The Odyssey House method, a schem~ ta raht~t~ilitc~er drt~g
addicts which began in America, has received the blessing of the New Zealand
Government. The Odyssey House Trust has announced that it has government support
to use a government building in Auckland to accommodate up to 40 addicts. These
addicts will qualify for an additional sickness benefit towards treattaent costs
while receiving long-term live-in treatment. 1lie programme, started in America
about 17 years ago by Dr Judianne Densen-Gerber, is a drug-free rehabilitation
programme for narcotic and alcohol drug dependents. Mrs Barbara Goodman, chair-
man of the trust in New Zealand, said government support would help the trust to
- raise money to fund the programme. She hoped the Odyssey House would open in
~ Auckland before the end of the year. [Excerpts~ ~Wellington THE EVEIJING POST
in En~lish 1 Jun 81 p 5~
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PAKISTAN
BIG HASHISH HA.UL IN ISLAMABAD: SIX AELD
Islamabad THE MUSLIM in English 19 May 81 p 8
[Article by Anwar Iqbal]
[ Tea t] [SLAMAIIAD, May 18: A Hame~t? Gull. wsa ~n the pidc u.
s cisl teant of the Advanced Th~ P~ ~~odtie' '~'~'ad
Enf
orcement School uf the ~t ~~~u~s w~ �10~bert
of en intemational gan8 and the}'
Pakistan Narcotics Controt ~~ed to scom the ~ nar Ptr-
Board today rocovered 170 ~
~~~~o~d
~b~.'
slabs of ha~, ,~ur ~ 158 slabs ia theu
weighit?g about 180 kilogcarils, piatodY - 58 fra~ the car and 100
from two vehicles at the Kaah- the picic up- tbe team ca~ied
mir Road. The cantrraband is a subseqneat ndd sc the sco~e aa~
worth about Rs.300,Ob0 i~ ttie ~O1'�~ g~t 12 slsbs of charaa
local market. Six per~ns were ~ m~~,tj,mo
ba~wjtt; ~pg;m
also taken into custody. . ~a~,
Howrver~ all the acwxd except
The vehicles, were cominB fmm Abdul Karim pleaded lnnocent.
Peshawar aad wan ~pposed to H~neah u~d Zahir ' Gul ~id that
deliver the stuff ' to a nore in the they had coub from Peshaaar in
vicfiitS' of Ialamabad. the pick up ta meet ona Mian
pnlimi~aty iafoanatlon about Gul Mobmead and wen asitiag for
the oon~gaamat was provlded to him at the `Den' whea polia
the PNCB guthontiea about a week appnheaded them.
back aad if aaa conSrmed day bd Alceat. Afial and Akram
foie yestecdsy that the ~nu~ cl~imed ttiat they were paseeraby
would be oa the move on May 18. and had stopped to watch when
Accordin~ly, a:aid woaa~n~ed they ta~+ the police party. Polia
u?d the vehicles, Toyo 7633 ~A~l
Kuim+ ~tt~ed~at he
aad Opel Record RIJ
stopped by thsee (~atoma oPflaer~ was a local diuR ~aftiCkar md had
four PNCB otY9cen aad une ~oiice came � to the ~tore on an
. oPticez-all puticlpatiaB ia a cout~e infomwdon paved on to hjm bY
of the Enforcement SchooL Mobammad Ashiaf . to collect h:s
apa~e which was ebout me maund.
The amug~ler thou6h aemed~ He+ sdd that he uaed to do the
, fiiled to abecon~ in view of the dlttiibutlon work oa hi~ bicycle
{~t proof nooee of the nidin6 He ~~it ~e local
laadlord, o~med a hotel in Pir-
P~y ota a?as beias d~vea by vandhai and he was eLw one of the
Zah}r Gul of Bara whib l~oh~mmad di~nib~utora and not the boaa as the
A~al arat ~ttia~ ia'the back ~eat; potkx cltimed.
aIleQadly holdfng a gun. The othez All' the accuaed said theY
car wae being dirvea by Abdul wera utested froa? Pirvndt?ai and
ICa.~n.~ md Mohammad Akat a~?d not from Kaahmir Ruad a+ th~
, Mohammad Akrun wete aittio~ authorltiet claimed and the charas
with him. The ~ng leader, Hai~, was aL~o mcovated fmm there.
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PAKISTAN
BRIEFS
SMUGGLERS HELD; OPIUM SEIZED--Ten and a half kilogram opium worth Rs 60,000 was
seized by the Mustafabad Police on Wednesday who arrested two narcotic smugglers.
- The accused, Jehangir Hussain and Shafqat Ali of village Baseen in horder area
were carrying the narcutics on a motorcycle L;i 3527 for smuggling *_o India when
they were intercepted on an information near Railway crossing on Allama Iqbal
Road. The opium was confiSCated and the culprits booked under the law. They
were remanded to Police custody for two days for further interrogation. [Text]
[Lahore THE PAKISTAN TIMES in English 21 May 81 p 5]
- 70 LAKH CHARAS SEIZURE--Charas worth over Rs 70 lakh was recovered from the
tonnage hatch of a cargo ship m.v. Pussur at the East Wharf on Sunday. As soon
as the drug was detected by the cleaning staff engaged by the Pakistan National
Shipping Corporation, the Master of the vessel was informed who posted some of
his staff inembers for keeping a strict watch over the contraband stuff. Later,
he informed the Customs staff belonging to Drug Enforcement Cell for proper in-
vastigation and seizure of the drug by them. Malik Mohaffinad Mobin Khan who has
recently been promoted as Superintendent, Preventive Service immediately re-
sponded to the call of the ship's Master and searched the whole vessel along
with a team of his officers. After rt~mmaging of the vessel thoroughly, the ship
was allowed ta eail according to its schedule to the East African ports.
- However, it was established that the charas was intended to be smuggled to some
_ European country as the ship had to visit the UK-Continent ports after visiting
the African ports. [By Mansoor Alam] [Text] [Karachi MORNING NEWS in English
2 Jun 81 p 5]
OPIUM SIEZED--Naushero Feroze Excise unit hauled up a person in possession oF
opium worth over Rs one lakh after a raid on a hiding place near Sarhel minor
on the National Highway. The accused person has been remanded to police custody.
[Text] [Karachi MORNING NEWS in English 1 Jun 81 p 3~
_ 7 KILOS OPIUM SEIZURE--Rawalpindi, May 16--The Excise authorities today recovered
- seven kilos of opium from ~ bus passengers, coming from Haripur. According to
details, Customs Inspector, Abdur Rashid was informed that an effort would be
made to smuggle opium from the NWFP. He arranged a raid and arrested Abdul
Qadir at the Wah Cantt. bus stop, as he came down from the bus. [Text]
_ [Islamabad THE MUSLIM in English 17 May 81 p 3]
NARCOTICS RECOVERED--Rawalpindi, May 18--About four kilos of opium was recov-
ered today by the Excise authorities, f rom a bus-passenger, at Wah Cantt. Tne
_ Excise authorities g~t a bid that Sher Afzal, who had boarded tl:: bus for the
NWFP, was carrying opium. They arranged a raid and recovered the opium fYom
him. Meanwhile, Industrial Area police recovered 600 grams of Charas from
Mohammad Rashid who was standing near the Faizabad bus stop. [Text] [Islamabad
THE MUSLIM in English 19 May 81 p 3]
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PECPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

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BRIEFS
HEROIN SALE; 'TWO CHARGED--The Investigation Bureau cracked a drug trafficking
ring in Kaohsiung recently and arrested two suspects in the case. A total of
5.2 pounds of heroin was also discovered, announced the bureau. THe bureau
received information that illegal drugs would be smuggled into Taiwan on a fish-
ing boat at the beginning of May. After investigation, a Pingtung resident
Li Huang-min was found selling heroin Kaohsiung May 22 and was arrested on the
spot. Li confessed that another man, Chen Wen-yi, living at a hotel in Kaoh-
siung gave him the heroin samples and asked him to sell them. Investigators
then arrested Chen at the hotel and found eight bags df heroin weighing 5.2
pounde at Chen's home in Pingtung. Chen, 35, is a captain on a fishing boat.
He said that he bought the heroin in February this year in Penang, Malaysia for
- 75,000 Malaysian dollars, about NT$1.3 million. [Text] [Taipei THE CHINA POST
in English 27 May 81 p 12]
CSO: 5300
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THAILAND
FIGHTING TIDE OF HEROIN SMUGGLING; CHALLENGE FOR OFFICIALS
Colombo SUN in English 23 May 81 p 5
. [Text] Bangkok, May 22 (DPA)--The seizure of 57 kilogrammes of heroin and the
arrest of four alleged drug smugglers by Thai police last week have underlined
the massive challenge faced by enforcement officials in the wake of this year's
- bumper opium harvest in South-East Asia's infamous "Golden Triangle."
Among those arrested in the drug raid was a Thai police private.
_ A nationwide arrest warrant has been issued for a police colonel also implicated
- in the case.
The huge profits accompanying the illicit drug trade make corruption almost in-
evit3ble, especially in a poor country like Thailand.
According to Thailand's office of the Narcotics Control Board (NCB), a kilo of
3-4-pure heroin is worth about 7,500 U.S. dollars in the Golden Triangle where
the borders of Thailand, Burma and Laos meet.
Once officials told DPA that the harvest of Golden Triangle heroin is more than
triple last year's and the supply glut has caused a decline in heroin prices
locally and internationally.
Staggering profits obviously make the war against narcotics an uphill battle,
easily affording high pay for thousands of smugglers, with plenty lef t over for
- palmgreasing in Thailand and wherever the heroin is ultimately marketed.
~ According to Robert J. Defauw, Regional Director of the biggest foreign anti-
narcotics agency operating in Thailand, Americu's Drug Enforcement Administra-
tion (DEA), the most successful narcotics suppression is that closest to the
supply source.
_ For this reason, he told DPA, a concerted effort is now underway to disrupt the
operations of the most powerful Golden Triangle warlord.
"Khun Sa is our number one enforcement target," Defauw said. "But we are also
targeting the distribution network between the Golden Triangle and Bangkok.
- Since Bangkok's Don Maung Airport is the exit point for most foreign drug
traffickers, it is not surprisingly the current site of a major anti-smuggling
campaign.
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Unlike other international airports, Thai custom o�ficials concentrate their
scrutiny on outgoing rather th an incoming passengers. But heroin and the in-
teraaediate product morphine base, often preferred by amugglers are concentrated
&nd easy to conceal.
With 5,000 passengers passing through Don Muang Airport daily, a body search
of every departing passenger 3s near to impossible.
Thai customs, with the advice of a round-the-clock detail of DEA agents, make
selective searches of passengers in the departure lounge. Customs agents are
trained to spot passengers who fittraffickers profiles in appearance and actions.
For example, a frequent visitor with no steady 3ob might be regarded as a prime
suspect, enforcement officials said. Such individuals are sub~ect to surveil-
lance while in Thailand as well as predeparture searches.
On May 4, Thai police arrested three young Frenchmen when 400 grammes of top-
grade heroin allegedly was found in a secret compartment in a wheelchair used
by one of the suspects.
Defauw said the most grisly way of smuggling he ever encountered was the stuff-
ing of heroin in the corpses of infants carried through customs.
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ARGENTINA
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BRIEFS
DRUG TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED--Cordoba, 5 Jun (NA)--The police have arrested Bolivian
citizen Juan Padilla Ro3as, 26 years of age, engineering student, and radio announcer
Nelly Trenti on charges of selling cocaine. [PY111822 Buenos Aires NOTICIAS
ARGENTINAS in Spanish 1455 GMT 5 Jun 81]
CSO: 5300/2357
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BRIEFS
DRUG ARREST--Col Arturo Doria M~dina, director of the National Narcotics Control
Council, has revealed that in the past few hours 30 drug traffickers have been
arrested. The significance of this report is that it shows that military officers
are still participating in the fight against drug trafficking despite President
Luis Garcia Meza's latest determination on the contrary. [PY120332 Paris AFP
in Spanish 1809 (~IT 10 Jun 81]
CSO: 5300/2357
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BRAZIL
- POLICE DISMANTLE TWO COCAINE DISTILLERIES IN ONE WEEK
Large Capacity
" Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 15 May 81 p 1
[Text] A distillery with a large cocaine-producing capacity found by federal police
in the Papucaia district of Cachoeira de Mmcacu municipality was used by a rin:g that
was a drug-traffic connection between Cali, Colombia, and Miami, Uni~ed States.
Breakup of the ring began when four Colombians and a Brazilian woman were arrested
in Monte Aprazivel, Sao Paulo [SP]. Later, with the arrest in Rio de Janeiro of
Colombians Humberto Jimenez and Walter Ospina (in photo),~.they found the distillemy,
with capacity, according to police, for producing up to 10 kilograms of cocaine per
week (see page 12).
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Cali-Miami Ccnnection
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 15 May 81 p 12
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[Text] Federal ~olic~ yesterday showed repor~ers a distillery with large cocaine-
producing capacity that was s~ized the day before yesterday in the Papucaia district
of Cachoeira de Macacu municipality. According to pclice, the distillery was used
- as an important drug-traffic counection between the cftfes of Calf, Col~mbia, and
_ Miami, United States.
Breakup of the ring began Tuesday in Monte Aprazivel, SP, where federal police agents
arrested four Colombians and a Brazilian woman, Tania Maria Fiuza Cerqueira, as they
were trying to pick up 20 kilograms of basic cocaine paste brought from Colom~ia by
the aircraft PT-JOW, whic: took off again from the small sirport with most of its
cargo. Ensuing raids by federal police netted Colombians Humberto Antonio Jimenez
and Walter Giraldo Ospina in Rio de Janeiro and found the rural house in Papucaia
where the distillery was functioning.
A lert Guard
A policeman who was in the Analysis Section of the federal police in Rio de Janeiro
when the distillery was being exhibited said he had participated in the arrest of
the Brazilian woman, Tania Maria Fiuza Cerqn~tra, and the Colombians, Gustavo Adolfo
Messias Medina, Jairo Gonzales, Jose Maria Ortiz Binilha and ~uilherme Teshima Perez, `
when they were picking up the drugs from Colombia. In his view, it all came about
through the alertness of the guard at the small Monte Aprazi~vel airport.
"There isn't much activity at that sirport. When the guard saw all those people
getting off the plane with all that baggage, he became suspicious and told the local
police about it. Agents of the federal police in Sao Jose do Rio Pr~to--about 30
kilometers away--went into action immediately. But the traffickers also became
aware of everything and the plane took off again. Until then the Colombians and the
Brazilian had been staying in a Monte Aprazivel hotel, which was surrounded by the
police."
In Rio
Alerted by the Sao Paulo team, federal police in Rio de Janeiro went into action.
One of the Colombians arrested in Sao Paulo, Guilherme Teshima Perez, had lived in
Rio some years ago with Tania Maria at 166 Nossa Senhora de Copacabana Avenue. Ac-
cording to police, Guilherme had also stayed at number 245 of the same avenue,
where Humberto Antonio Jimenez and Walter Giraldo Ospina, who had fled by taxi from
Monte Aprazivel, were arrested Tuesday.
The series of arrests led police to the country home of Tania Maria`s father in
Papucaia, Cachoeira de Macacu municipality. In addition to federal police agents,
an undisclosed numbe-r of Rio de Janeiro ~'M;"[Military Police] took part in the raid.
The Distillery
Police were able to apprehend only 1.9 kilograms of basic cocaine paste in Tania
Maria's possession. The rest of the 20 kilograms brought by the aircraft had to be
taken back to Cali.
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The goods seized in Rio de Janeiro, however, include 45 boxes ~f chemic:al a~enty
worth 300,000 cruzeiros--ether, acetone, alcohol, hydrochloric acid, suIfuric acid,
_ a sack of:barilla--a powder used to make cocaine hydrochlorate--teat tubes, acale,
strainer, filter paper, plastic buckets, five 500-watt lamp~s for drying and other
supplies for decantation and distillation of cocaine: "A structure able to produce
over 10 kilograma of cor.aine per week, depending on the quantity of raw material,".a
federal police agent asserted.
Six Kilograms
Invp4tigation of the nearly 6 kilog~ams of cocaine seized last week by the PM in
Copacabana has since yesterday been the responsibility of Commissioner Walterson
Bote'lho of the Narcotics Commission, after several days of silence from the 12th
- DP [Police District) about the progress of the investigation.
Coimnissioner Wa~terson Botelho said he does not wish to say what steps he will take
regarding the case, but reported that Raimundo Lisboa Lobo and his wife, Tereza de
Sa Lobo--owners of the apartment where the drugs were found--were interviewed by
the acting commissioner of the 12th DP, Rui Dourado, for about 5 hours on Monday.
Previously Commissioner Rui Dourado had asserted he had not yet interviewed the
couple.
Two Arrested
The Narcotics Commission yesterday arrested in Campo Grande and in the Cidade Alta
housing complex in Cordovil traffickers Felipe de Oliveira Pinto (Caolha), 40, and
Gilberto Gomes Rodrigues da:.Silva (Juba), 23, who had in their possession weapons,
marihuana and cocaine.
Caolha, who sold marihuana outside the Formigao supe~arket on Santa Maria Highway
in Campo Grande, had 41 small packages, a 6.35-caliber pistol and amanunition for a
7.63-caliber weapon. Police found Juba with two 32-caliber revolvers, 10 packets
- of cocaine and some musket shot in a hiding-place.
Second D istillery Discovered
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 19 May 81 p 8
(Text] The Narcotics Co~ission last weekend broke up another cocaine-refining
laboratory, the second in less than 1 week. It was operated in a house of the
Sertaozinho estate in Miguel Pereira and was rented to trafficker Claudio Di.as
(Claudinho), 23. He was found sleeping in the laboratory, along with Maria da
Graca Goncalves de Brito, on Saturday afternoon.
Wilson Navarro, 27, and Bedenil Macena de Brito (Negao), 36, both of Mato Grosso, who
were responsible for converting the basic cocaine paste into powder, were arrested
_ in Caxias during the morning of the day before yesterday.
The clue leading to the arrest of Claudinho, owner of four apartments in Botafogo
and supplier of nearly all the South Zone traffickers, was obtained with the ar-
rest of trafficker Gerson Ferreira de Souza, 47, and his girlfriend, Eliane Alves
Lopes, 21. The police, on arriving at the country house, found the laboratory fa-
cilities for diatilling cocaine and asked for help from a Carlos Eboli Institute
expert.
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The Sertaozinho estate belongs to Senator Aarao Steinbruck, who, according to Com-
missioner Walterson Botelho, has nothing to do with the cocaine distillery.
By Telephone
During the operation to arrest Geraon and Eliane, the police found clues leading
them to Claudinho.
~ In his apartment, in the same building;c Inspector Nelio Macha~io fould a tel~phone
- bill with charges for several calls to Mato Gresso and Miguel Pereira. He called
the number in the latter city and learned that it was that of a rea.l-estate lessor.
Th~~ person who answered the telephone gave::him the address of the country house, on
Itaperuna Street, where Claudinho had set up the laboratory.
On Saturday afternoon the police went to Miguel Pereira and broke_inzo three other
houses by mistake. When they found the house in which the bandit had set up a
laboratory, they arrested him without reaistance. Police found in his possession
a jar containing almost 65 grams of pure cocaine, which he would mix with sugar,
tripling its weight to sell it to South Zone traffickers. Maria da Graca, who was
in his company, despite having a record of drug involvement was not booked on any
charge, as was Claudinho, because she gave testimony as a witness.
Material seized in the house included twenty-six 1-liter flasks of ether, acetone,
methyl alcohol, suTfuric acid and hydrochloric acid, used in the chemistry of con-
version; acrylic jars, plastic buckets of variaus sizes, filter paper, a scale and
three lamps (two of 500 watts and one infra-red Zamp of 250 watts). With this ma-
terial the two from Mato Grosso and Claudinho refined the basic cocaine paste.
For several hours the trafficker said he did not know
the names of thase who were helping him, but he
e~rentually confessed that they were Wilson Navarro
(Ladario Street, Corumba) and Bedenil Macena de
Brito, of Marica Street in the Cavaleiros district
of Caxias.
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BRAZIL
NEO-NAZI GROUP CHIEF ENGAGF~D IN TkAFFICKING SOUGHT
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 14 May 81 p 6
[TextJ Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul--Joachim Fiebelkorn, 34-year-old German, leading
member of the "Special Command Group," which heads the "Los Novios de la Muerte,"
neo-nazi movement of Bolivia, is at large and being sought by the federal police in
Brazil.
This information ~oas given yesterday by Lt Col Carlos Macias Kraljevic, commandant
_ of the 6th Cavalry Regiment, with headquarters in the city of Puerto Suarez, near
~olivia's border with Brazil.
The army officer said the La Paz government intends to request extradition of the
eight foreigners, who were detained last week in Campo Grande for questioning after
weapons and neo-nazi propaganda were found in their luggage.
Federal police sources in Campo Grande, meanwhile, said that as yet no country has
_ expressed itself about the situation of the detainees and rou~ine investigations of
_ the inquiry looking inta ~Xpulaion of the group are continuing.
'Novios'
According to information gathered in Campo Grande, Corumba and Puerto Suarez, the
"Special Co~and Group" coordina~ed all activities of the "Novios de la Muerte," a
paramilitary group connected with cocaine tzaffic.
The "Group" consi�ted of three members: Joachim Fiebelkorn--who has fled and is
probably in Sao Paulo--Ike Choppin, also German, about 40, held by a military unit .
in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, and Willi Herbert Manfred Ruhlmann, 41-year-old German,
held in Campo Grande. At first it was thought that Fiebelkorn was being held in
Bolivia.
Fiebelkorn and Kuhlmann had access to Bolivian security agencies but suthorities of
that country revealed that the documents found in possession of the German prisoner
were forged.
According to Colonel Macias, the "Group" did not have much political influence in
his country but, financed by drug traffickers, it acted against the military and
took part fn the attack last July on an office of the Interior Ministry, where files
containing names and information about the drug Mafia were ~estroyed.
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The Bolivian arury officer also revealed that 33 peraons were arrested in an action
against the neo-nazis of Santa Cruz de la Sierra on 30 April, although th~ major
leaders have managed to escape.
RafAel Ustaris, an attorney who worked in the Finance Ministry, is under arrest in
_ La Paz. He appears, along wit'n Joacliin Fiebelkorn and other members of the "Novios
de la Muerte" in a photograr:~ seiz~d by the federal police.
Who He Is
Fiebelkorn had connections with cocaine traffickers and it was he wY~o brought to
- Brazit the package containing 2.8 kilograms of the drug seized bq police. According
to Colonel Macias, thanks Co his contscts, the neo-nazi chief learned where his
group was located and fled on 30 April to Corumba in the Piper aircraft CP-1604 pi-
loted by the Bolivian Antonio Ramon Gutierrez de Ortiz (held in Campo Grande).
In Campo Grande, Fiebelkorn stayed at the Grande Hotel and disappeared 2 May, hours
before federal police ar"rived at the hotel and arrested pilot Qrtiz, Austrian
Wolfgang Walterkirchen and Bolivian Jose Ali Parada.
An informer in Sao Paulo told federal police that Willi Herbert Manfred Kuhlmann, a
German, was fleeing from Bolivia to Brazil.
Kuhlmann is thought to be the most confirmed nazi of the group and it was he who was
most devoted to training ~he paramilitary elements. He arranged for arrival of the
films shown at meetings in the Bavaria Reataurant in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
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Argentine sisters Ymelda and Rosa M~riana Penserolli and Peruvian Jose ~".achiavello,
all of whom are under arrest in the federal police headquarters in Mato Grosso do
Sul, worked in ttne rest~urant. Machi~vello was the cook and a few days before com-
ing to Brazil was expelled fram Bolivia "for activfties contrary to the ideals of
the Bolivian people."
The three, together with Tatiana V~ca Diez Ortiz--wife of pilot Antonio Ramon--were
arrested in Posto Esdras on the border when Federal Revenue agents examining their
luggage found Brazitian-made grenades, a field uniform, two walkie-talkies, photo-
graphs and neo-nazi p.ropaganda material, seized by the federal police.
8834
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BRAZIL
POLICE' S~JRPRISE T(d0 ~RAFFICi~RS WIiO ROB$ED MINAS BANK
Rio de Janeiro JORNAL DO BRASIL in Portuguese 10 May 81 p 25
[Text] Belo Horizonte--Drug traffickers Renato Caetano da Silva and Genir Gomes
Pereira are two of the five assailants who stole 10.6 million cruzeiros Friday morn-
ing from the Banco Mercantil do Brasil branch in Contagem--2.28 million cruzeiros
of which have been recovered. Found accidentally by Narcotics Coffinission agents in
a house in the Santa Amelia district, the two fled with their accomplices in a Passat
after exchanging gunfire with the police.
According to Military Police Operations Headquarters, the Passat, with license plate
- BJ-9284, of Belo Horizonte, was found at 0820 hours yesterday in front of 170
Engenheiro Vicente Assuncao Street in the Itapua district and sent to DOPS [Depart-
ment of Political and Social Order]. In a combined operation, 100 agents of the
DOPS, the Robbery and Burglary Commission an1 the Narcotics Commission are still
looking for the sssailaats:.
Machine Gun
In the house were: found 1.8 million cruzeiros, an Argentine machine gun, a suitcase
with 75 kilograms of marihuana and 3 sutomobiles. Two women were arrested and taken
to the Narcotics Commission, where they were charged with trafficking.
Patrolmen from the 13th Military Poltce Battalion, called by the Narcotics Com~is-
sion, found 40U,000 cruzeiros concealed in strips of paper from the Banco Merc2~nti1~_
do Brasil dated 7 May on a wall near the house. The money must have been dropped
during the flight of Che assailants and, together with the weapons, was taken to the
DOPS, Agents of Team B of the Na~cotics Co~udis"sion Odilon Costa Coelho, Jose de
- Fatima, Onofre and Elias explained that finding the assailants was an accident.
They were on a routine assignment, looking for a marihuana trafficker known as
Tonho. When they knocked on the door of No 80, in the Santa Amelia district,
Renato Caetano da Silva recognized agent Odilon and the assailants began to fire
- and escape through the back of the house.
~ The two women, questioned b~ Commissioner Eduardo Angelo Campos, are Maria Quiteria,
25, and Janete Russo, 28. The former is married to Genir Gomes and hss two children.
She said she knows nothing about robberies or marihuana, since her husband said
very little about Y~is activities away from h6me.
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The three cars seized at the house are a Brasilia (license plate MT 7110 of Aguas
~ Formosas), a Fiat (2269, Belo Horizonte) and an Opala (0720, Sao Paulo). The as-
sailants also used a Passat from Ipatinga (FR-2709) in the robbery and a Chevette
stolen during the getaway (license AY 8886), later abandoned. The lic~nse plate on
the Passat from Ipatinga is stolen and belongs to a green Opala of that city.
The DOPS inspector on duty yesterday, who identified himself only as Wilson, said
that on weekends there is no working shift and he was unable to say where to find the
chairman of the investigation Commissioner Mauro Campelo.
8834
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- s~,zYL
C6MBINID OPERATION NETS MARIHUANA, COF,~IINE
Rio de Janeiro 0 GLOBO in Portuguese 14 May 81 p 14
[Text] In a joint operation, federal police and military police seized at dawn yes-
terday over 19 kilograms of marihuana, 16 grams of cocaine, almost 40,000 cruzeiros
in cash, a 38-caliber Taurus revolver, 20 rounds of ammunition, a scale, a stapling
machine, pape~c for dozens of cigarette packs snd three pocketbooks in the house at
139 Versalhes Street in the Areia eection of Mesquita. Arrested at the scene were
Gilson Ariel Setubal dos Reis, who police say is the owner of the seized goods,
� Damiao Soares de Moura and Pedro Raulo Trinidade (Tobias).
According to the public information service of the Regional Superintendency of the
Federal Police Department in the state of Rio de Janeiro,:kahich exhibited the mate-
rial and the prisoners to reportera, police "managed to break up one of the major
sales points for drugs in Rio."
Police promised to exhibit today at 1500 hours a cocaine distillery and other traf-
fickers arrested.
PM [Military PoliceJ Col Nilton Cerqueira, who was present at the Federal Police
headquarters, told reporters:
"As you can see, we are_:combating crime and lawiessness. But we cannot do everything
- alone. We need the collaboration of persons who really want to combat drugs and vio-
lence. For instance, if someone sees a group in the street that looks suspicious, he
should call the police. Then we will go there and check it out, I feel that anyone
who mistrusts someone is obliged to inform the police."
Resistance
One policeman told how the joint operation took place:
"This is the result of several operations in Che area of Austin, Mesquita and their
environs. Just to break up this powder magazine (the house on Versalhes Street) we
investigated for more than 48 hours."
Police reported that Gilson Ariel, indicated to be the owner of the house and of the
drugs, tried to resist arrest, but he was subdued. He was then taken to the Federal
Police station, along with his two accomplices.
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The DPF [Federal Police DepartmentJ public information service reported that Gilson
- Ariel had been convicted by the Federal Police in 1978 under Article 12 of Law No
6368/76. A retired marine sergeant from Bahia, 44 years old, he has been convicted
several times by civil courts in Rio.
Col Nilton Cerqueira asked the prisoner Pedro Paulo: .
"Have you been working with this for a long time?"
"I have nothing to do with this," replied Pedro Paulo, shackled to the other two by
handcuffs.
The commandant turned again to the reporters and said:
"The police need moral support much more than, for instance, money. A waxm compli-
ment is much more important to a soldier than is money. The public must get to know
the police better. And you can help very much in lthis. Today (~esterday~, for.ex-
ample, a soldier died. I ask you to stress tiie death of this man; who died in ser-
vice. It is sad news and I regret it. We need your help."
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BRAZIL
POLICE DESTROY MARIHUANA WORTH 300 MILLION CRUZEIROS
Rio de Janeiro JORNAL DO BRASIL in Portuguese 13 May 81 p 14
[TextJ Recife--After searching the Sao Francisco backlands for 15 days, 12 Federal
Police agents, in "Operation Belem do Sao Francisco," burned 20,231 marihuana plants
that weighed 10,150 kilograms and were worth 300 million cruzeiros.
The operation was completed last weekend but the Federal Police Superintendency re-
ported the outcome only yesterday. It culminated with the arrest of six of the seven
persons responsible for planting the herb, usually grown in the midst of corn and
beans to confuse the police. The area searched by the agents is very favorable to
growing marihuana due to an abundance of water and sunlight.
Where They Were
The 20,231 marihuana plants were found by Federal Police agents on three farms--two,
Pau Ferro and Poco da Volta, in Belem do Sao Francisco municipality and the other,
Cacimbinha, in Betania municipality.
Six plots were found on the three farms. The first, with 1,421 plants, belonged to
Manoel Alves Ferreira; the second had 5,580 plants and Teofanes Goncalves Torres was
responsible; the third, owned by Antonio Alves Ferreira, had 5,300 plants; the fourth
_ plot had 350 plants and belonged to Francisco de Sa Ferreira; and the fifth, with
- 1,060 plants, belonged to Antenor, whose surname is unknown and who so far has not
been located by police, being the only one of the group to remain at large.
The sixth plot belongs to Henrique da Silva and Genival Pereira da Silva and had
2,500 plants. All the planters except Antenor were arrested at the scene by federal
police, indicted under inquiry and detained in Betania and Belem do Sao Francisco,
where they will be tried.
The Belem do Sao Francisco operation is the first this year to seize a large amount
of marihuana in Pernambuco and is part of the federal police activities to combat
drugs every year. TF~e police carry out similar operations in which, besides burning
the seized marihuana and arresting those responsible for planting, ~hey try to get
to the traffickers.
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BRAZIL
BRIEFS
MARIHUANA SHIPMENT--Sao Paulo, 29 May (AFp)--Federal police personnel have seized
1 ton of marihuana smuggled from Paraguay in Anhumas, 700 km of Sao Paulo, it was
reported here today. The police said that two drug traffickers--a Paraguayan and
a Brazilian--confessed that they had bought the marihuana in Pedro Juan Caballero,
Paraguay, and intended to sell it in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. They smuggled
the marihuana into Brazil in two small planes which landed at clandestine air strip
in Anhumas, where they were arrested. [PY].20332 Paris AFP in Spanish 1335 GMT
29 May 81]
COUPLE ARRESTID WITH COCAINE--Narcotics Commission agents caught the couple Gerson
Ferreira de Sousa, cabinet-maker, 47, and Eliane Aives Lopes, 21, at 38 Natal Street,
Apartment 303, in Botafogo, �ith about 200 grams of cocaine in their possessiono
The intention of the raid was to capture trafficker Clatidio Dias, brother of Paulo
Rogerio Dias (Pelezinho), who is also a trafficker. According to police, Paulo
Rogerio always travels to the United States to traffic in drugs. Claudio is owner
of the apartment and, according to anonymous sources, he was going to bring 1 kilo-
gram of cocaine there from Resendea However, he was not found. :The police w2re
- also in Apartment 202, which also belongs to Claudio. The tenant of Apartment 303
is Beatriz Assuncion dos Guimaraes, Paraguayan designer, who was in the company of
makeup artist Eduardo Meckelburg. With her permission, police searched the apart-
ment and found no drugs. When the Narcotics Commission agents were about to leave,
Gerson and Eliane arrivedo When he saw the police, he tried to hide something:
some white powder and remains of some plants. Later, an examina~ion verified that
these were cocaine and marihuana. Gerson tried to take all the blame, asserting
that his companion only brought the drug to him, that he sold drugs in the vicinity
of the movie houses of Botafogo Beach. Police discovered that he always went to
Resende to meet a Bolivian from whom he bought cocaine. [TextJ [Rio de Janeiro
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CflILE
BRIEFS
- COCAINE SEIZED, PEDDLERS ARRESTED--The Arica police today dealt the drug peddlers
a hard blow by seizing 6 kg of cocaine worth $1.2 million. The investigation also
led to the arrest of three traffickers, two of whom are Peruvians who normally
live in Tacna and Puno. The third peddler is a Chilean resident of Arica.
[PY111822 Santiago Chile Domestic Service in Spanish 0000 GMT 6 Jun 81]
SANTIAGO COCAINE TRAFFICKERS--The Narcotics Department has arrested Nora Meza Meza,
49 years ot age, and Manuel Barrios Pizarro, 31 years of age, for trying to sell
200 grams of cocaine base in Santiago. [PY120332 Santiago TERCERA DE LA HORA
in Spanish 26 May 81 p 39]
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MEXICO
RING OF OPIUM GUM TRAFFICKERS BEING TRACKED DOWN
Nuevo Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 28 May 81 Sec B p 3
[Text] The coordinating entity of the agencies of the Federal Public Ministry of Zone
11, headed by Carlos Aguilar Garza, reported that the investigations are continuing
for the purpose of disbanding completely the international ring of opium gum traffick-
ers.
The official from~the Attorney General's Office said that the Federal Judicial Police,
under orders from Comdr Jose Siordia Jimenez, are on the right track in their probe,
because the three youths who were arrested in Ciudad Victoria have disclosed impor-
tant "names."
As will be recalled, it was last Friday when State Judicial Police agents succeeded
in capturing Gaudencio Castillo Aguilar, aged 20, a resident of Jalapa Avenue, in
Jalapa, Veracruz; as well as Gonzalo Chavez Aceves, aged 20, of Emiliano Zapata, and
a native of Tampico; and Estuardo de los Reyes, aged 24, who claimed to reside at
4th and Sth Streets in Ciudad Victoria.
According to the report which they submitted, the arrest took place at 1900 hours,
when Guadencio arrived with his "friends" at the La Veracruzana bar, where he went
about offering opium gum to certain persons.
TTnderstar.dably, one of them became aware of this action, and quickly notified the
State Judicial Police, who arrived a few minutes later and arrested the three indi-
viduals.
Gaudencio had the opium gum in his possession, in a�denim briefcase. He was taken
to the headquarters, and a report was subsequently made to the coordinating entity
of the Public Ministry agencies. Carlos Aguilar Garza appointed an expert from the
Attorney General's Office to accompany the commander, Jose Siordia Jimenez, and
take over the case.
It was also stated by the Federal Judicial Police that they expect to capture the
heads of this international drug trafficking "gang" soon.
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Gaudencio Castillo Aguilar, aged 20, the individual who was selling the opium
who was responsible for offering the gum.
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MEXICO
SUCCESSFUL DRUG RAIDS CONDUCTED IN COAHUILA TOWNS
Piedras Negras EL DIARIO DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS in Spanish 9 May 81 Sec B p 1, Sec A p 2
[Text] Several death blows were dealt to the drug traffic in the entire northern
area by the chief of the Federal Judicial Police, Comdr Luis Calderon, and the forces
under hie command, in an unpr~cedented action which was carried out in various set-
tlements in the area of Piedras Negras, Sabinas, Aeuna and other towns. In those
locations, smugglers of laborers, drug traffickers and individuals who committed
other federal crimes were arrested, and seizures of drugs, including cocaine and
marihuana, were made. Also, warranta for the arrest.of persons involved in ma~or
drug trafficking cases were implemented.
Chemical Findings Awaited To Remand Six Arrested Here
Yesterday, EL DIARIO was informed that the remanding..of the six.persons arrested in
connection with cocaine traffieking is sti11 pending. The entire group was headed
by Gabino Wilsar Rodriguez, his wife, Audelia Sanchez de Wilsar, Catarino Pruneda
Sanchez, and others, all of whom have already made their preliminary statements to
_ ~the Federal Public Ministry agent, Xavier Eltzondo. All that is being awaited is
the result of the chemical test made of the half a~ kilogram of cocaine, in the
Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, where the drug was sent.
It was claimed that these individuals in custody may possibly be remanded by next
Monday; and it was also noted that there was a possibility that the prosecutor or
the federal judge might order the release of aeveral of'those under arrest because
of the fact that it is assumed that they are not liable in any way.
For the present, in the compilation of the evidence, it was established that Gabino
Wilsar was fully guilty of the crime of cocaine trafficking and distribution, and
even of exporting it to the United States.
The half a kilogram of cocaine seized in Sabinas, ~oahuila, is one of the largest
seizures made in that area.
Several Arrested in Ciudad Acuna for Marihuana Possession Transferred
EL DIARIO was told yesterday by sources in the agency of the Federal Public Ministry
_ that the remand had been received for two persons in custody, namely, Victor Blanco
and Juan M. Bermea. It was said, without confirmation, that they are being held by
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Federal Judicial Police forces, at the order of the prosecutor, Elizondo, both for
crimes against health, apparently in the degree of marihuana posaession and traffick-
ing.
It was stated yesterday that the two individuals under arrest were still in the
Federal Judicial Police lockup, with their eyes blindfolded. These are devices or
practices used by the Federal Judicial Police to prevent the eacape of those being
held, because there is a group of individuals also in custody for various federal
crimes, and it is thought that the Federal Judicial.Police ce11s are full.
Raymundo Gabirio Gonzalez Arrested for Selling 10 Kilograms of Marihuana in Guadala-
~ ara
Federal Judicial Police forces succeeded in eapturing Raymundo Gabirio Gonzalez,
[hus implementing a ma~or arrest warrant issued by the federal judge of the second
district court, Gilberto Carlos Canto Lopez.
Yesterday, Gabirio Gonzalez made his preliminary statement to the federal ~udge,
denying the crime with which he ia charged, namely, the sale.of marihuana.
Moreover, in the record it was noted that ~laro Roberto Martinez Felan and Rogelio
Rodriguez Jaime, in turn, stated that they had purchased 10 kilograms of marihuana ~
in Guadala~ara, and that this.graes had been sold to them by some individuals
named Felix Ramirez and Fausto Gomez, and also Raymundo Gabirio Gonzalez.
Claro Roberto Martinez Felan, Felix and Fausto Gomez, as well as Raymundo Gabirio,
are being tried for the crimes of purchase, sale, posseseion, supply and trafficking
of marihuana. .
Some of them have been in custody since January~1978, such as Claro Roberto Martinez
and Rogelio Rodriguez. They were caught in Ciudad�Acuna and two bags of marihuana
which they had buried on Rogelio's property were seized from them.
Investigation Being Completed on One.of the Ma~or Labor Smugglers
Yesterday, the agent of the Federal Public Ministry completed the investigation of
- one of the leading labor smugglers.operating in the area, in response to the charge
submitted by a group of fellow countrymen in Ciudad Acuna, Coahuila.
Calderon Keeps His Promise To End the Drug Traffic
The commander of the Federal Judicial Police in this port, Luis Calderon, has been
keeping his promise to engage in action to its fin~l con~equences, in order to
eradicate the drug traff ic, with the recent operations wherein the Federal Judicial
Police have been fulfilling their commitment. The seizure of the SOC~ grams of
cocaine, as well as the arrest of those responsible, have uncovered a series of
situations wherein the drug traff.ickers had been acting surreptitiously.
If this forceful action continues, we shall soon have an actually clear border,
from a more decisive standpoint, in this regard.
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MEXICO
MARIHUANA TRAFFICKING RING BROKEN UP
Shipment Seized
Nuevo Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 26 May 81 Sec B p 3
[Text] Agents from the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, attached to
the Vice Squad, led by the coordinator.for Zone 11, Jose Siordia Jimenez, dealt a
devastating blow to an international "gang" of drug traffickers which had been
operating outside the law for some time.
The capture of this ring took place after the investigations carried out discreetly
by the federal agents, since it was learned from the "underworld" that a marihuana
shipment was soon to be taken to Houston, Texas, and that it might be transported
through a settlement near this town.
At dawn last Saturday, a 1980 LTD car with Texas license plates arrived at the resi-
dence located at No 909 Francisco Munguila. Later, a Torton truck with Jalisco
plates arrived and, finally, a 1974 Suburban pick~p truck appeared, from which
several persons emerged and began unloading the shipment from the Torton truck.
They had already taken half of the shipment from the aforementioned Torton when
Siordia Jimenez and his agents surrounded the drug traffickers and warned them to
surrender, because they were the Federal Judicial Police. ~They succeeded in arrest-
ing them, and then proceeded to search the contents of the boxes, noting that mari-
huana was being carried inside the vehicle, camouflaged with fruit.
The trafficking ring was taken to the Federal Palace, where its members were identi-
fied as Oscar Constancio Juarez Melendez, aged 31, a reaident of 1815 Callaghan;
Antonio River, aged 34; Gonzalo Gonzalez Elizondo, aged 36, who resides at 2902
Convento; Jose Villalobos, aged 22, a resident of 2506 Garcia; Guadalupe Torres,
aged 26, residing at 1414 Juarez; Mario Gonzalez, aged 26, residing at 915 Plutarco
Elias Street; Ovidio Juarez Melendenz,.residing at 6128 Canales; as well as his
brother, Armando Juarez, residing at 607 Francisco Munguia.
The ringleaders of this criminal gang were identified by their accomplices as Oscar
_ Constancio Juarez Melendez and Antonio Rivera. These individuals confessed separate-
ly that they were "partners," and had been engaged in this illegal business for some
time. They also stated that, on this occasion, they had gone on 18 May to the town
of Huerta Jalisco, where they purchased 500 kilograms of marihuana from an individual
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whom they identified as Lino Benavides, who sold it to them for 1,500 pesos per kilo-
gram, making them turn over only 400,OOO.pesos,.because the rest would be paid
after they delivered the "goods" in Houston, Texas, to a person named Juan Gonziilez
- Rodriguez.
Gonzalo Gonzalez Elizondo, for his part, confessed that he was Antonio Rivera's
assistant, and had been transporting this.grass for some time to the United States,
through a settlement naar ('~lomlaia, Nuevo.Leon; adding that this was not the first
time that he worked wi~.h Rivera, because he had spent some.time engaged in drug
trafficking.
He also stressed that he had gone to hire the rest of those under arreat to have
them help him unload the in~urious grass which was concealed under some boxes of
fruit.
Com~:~ Jose Siordia Jimenez emphasized that this operation was carried out after the
rumors heard about a marihuana shipment. He added that the agents had stationed
themselves in several locations where the operation to carry the marihuana across
the river was supposedly going to take place; and that this was how the Federal
Poliee scored a victory, capturing this criminal ring.
Today, its members will be placed at the disposal of the agent of the Federal Public
Ministry.
Traffickers Make Statements
Nuevo Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Sp~nish 28 May 81 Sec B p 3
[Text] Y~sterday, the agent of the Federal Public Ministry, Marcelino Garcia Rizo,
took the statements from the ring of youth poisoners that was captured last Saturday
at dawn with half a ton of marihuana in their possession.
Antonio "Tony" Rivera, and his accomplice, Oscar Constancio Juarez Melendez, admitted
to being the chiefs of the trafficking ring, and claimed that they had been operating
but a short time. At first, these individuals tried to deny their guilt, but had to
ad~~it it later, because their companions identified them as the ones who had hired
them.
"Tony" Rivera is an individual known as one of the big "czars" of the drug traff ic
in recent years, since this same su~iject has confessed that he delivered certain
amounts to state and municipal officials.
Rivera had also set up several business establishments in Laredo, Texas, to pretend
"good" conduct.
Agents from that town ~tated that they had been unable to arrest them because the
shipments that they were transporting to the United~States were never found in their
possession.
Gonzalo Elizondo is also very much implicated because, as he noted in his statement,
"Tony" had hired him on several occastions,to take the marihuana or oCher drugs
across to the neighboring town.
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United States narcotics agents are striving to put an end to the activity of the rest
of the ring located in that country. These individuals will be turned over to the
district court today, where they wi11 make their preliminary statements.
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one of the chiefs of the drug trafficking drug trafficker, with a dossiQr in the FBI,
"gang" who confessed to having engaged in Narcotics Bureau and other Texas entities,
drug trafficking for a long time. was finally caught by the Mexican police
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cipants in the big drug business. A major probe was conducted by Federal Judicial
Police agents under orders from that entity's Zone II coordinator, Jose Siordia
Jimenez.
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they were unloading the cannabis indica. The first-mentioned individual stated
_ that he had spent a long time in this "business."
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DRUG WAR MOTIVE FOR ATTACK ON PRISONER
Nuevo Laredo EL MANANA in Spanish 5 May 81 Sec B p 5
[Text] Supremacy in the control of drug purchases, sales and distribution in the La
Loma prison is the presumed motive for the "contract" made by~"someone" behind the
scenes to have the criminal Juan Martinez Garcia, alias "La Coquena," attempt to
_ assassinate Juan Pablo Garcia Sandoval, alias "La Pata," who, after sustaining three
stab wounds, disarmed his attacker and ended up killing him with 13 knifings and
several blows with a heavy metal bar.
It was learned from the investigations made by the authorities until yesterday that
"La Pata" Garcia S~nd~~val had invaded the drug market in La Lama, and this caused
the plotting of the crime over a month ago. He was on the brink of death from
knife wounds on 25 April, when the brothers Alfredo and Catarino Perez Sandoval
attempted to eliminate him. ~
The foregoing was ascertained from the arrest made by the La Loma guards at 1300
hours on Sunday, when they found a marihuana cigarette on Aurelio Escalante Garcia,
aged 20, c~~ho claimed that the grass and the knife that he was carrying on his belt
were to be delivered to "La Pata."
The deputy warden of the prison, Arturo Reyes Cisneros, ordered the guards Tomas Mar-
tinez and Pedro Luna to search the 1973 Mercury Cougar car, with license plates
217-ZPD, in which Aurelio Escalante had arrived at the 3ai1.
Under the front seat, they found a"ball," in other words a moderate amount of canna-
bis indica, tied with insulation tape, which the individual intended to throw over
the fence to reach Juan Pab1o Garcia; but, according to his statement, he wanted to
- talk to the latter first, so as to come to an agreement with him.
The order was immediately given to remove Juan Pablo Garcia from jail, and he was
taken to the cell for unruly inmates, where "La Coquena" had been for a week, for
having attacked another inm~te.
- According to Arturo Reyes, at 1600 hours in the afternoon, two guards went to the
aforementioned pnealty cell occupied by the aforementioned prisoners as well as by
Juan Fernando Rivera Mo~ica, alias "E1 Nino" and Jose Luis Solis Villarreal, and
proceeded to search them and at the same time check the cell.
Within the next few minuts, "someone" delivered to "La Coquena" a 2 b y 4 me tal
bar and a colossal dagger.
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He took advantage of the interval when the visitors departed and, when Juan Pablo
Garcia was crouched down looking outside the cell through the bars, Juan Martinez
approached and gave him the first stab in the back.
He wounded him two more times but "La Pata", overcoming the intense pain, seized tlte
metal bar that his attacker had, and gave him several blowa on the forehead, causing
m~ltiple fractures.
Juan Martinez freed the dagger which his "victim" had, and with it inflicted 13
- fatal wounds. ~
The witnesses Juan Fernando Rivera and Jose Luis ~olis shouted to the guards for
help, and the latter arrived to capture "La Pata" who was venting his wrath on the
dying Juan Martinez, who succumbed upon.arrival at the Civil Hospital.
The prison authorities immediately turned Aurelio Escalante Garcia over to the
agency of the Federal Publ.ic Miniatry for questioning.
Federal Intervention Needed
The heated situation that prevails in the La Loma prison merits immediate, decisive
- inter~vention on the part of the Federal Judicial Police and the agents of the Federal
Public Ministry but, as of yesterday, they had not paid the slightest attention to
the tragic brawl, arguing that "this is a matter for the court of equity."
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MEXICO
BRIEFS
OPIUM GUM SEIZED--An exhaustive investigation on the part of Federal Judicial Police
forces resulted in.the arrest of one individual and the confiscation of a kilogram
of opium gum, a drug which he had intended to distribute among addicts once the
reduction cuts to which that substance is sub~ected had been made. According to
information provided by the coordinator of Zone 006 of the permanent campaign against
drug trafficking established by the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic,
Hector Aviles Castillo, the forces under orders from the second commander of the
Federal Judicial Police, Manuel Espindola Martinez, arrested Espiridion Urtusuastegui
Loe*-a as the person presumed guilty of the crime of drug possession. Aviles Castillo
added that, after several days of investigation, it was leaxned that the presumed
drug trafficker resided in Coipa, in the municipality of Guasave. The police went
there and, after arresting him, managed to have him turn over a plastic bag contain-
ing a dark-colored substance with a pervasive odor which, after it was subjected to
- the respective analyses, was found to be opium gum. Urtusuastegui Loera stated that
he had purchased.the drugs for 300,000 pesos, and intended to sell them for 400,000
pesos, something which proved impossible owing to the action of the police entity
which prevented the accomplishment of the business transaction. [Text) [Culiacan
EL SOL DE SINALOA in Spanish 22 May 81 Sec B p 2] 2909
JAILED TRAFFICKER TRANSFERRED--Mexico City, 18 May (EXCELSIOR)--The Supe~ior Court
of Justice of the Federal District granted the benefit of federal justice to the
drug trafficker Alberto Sicilia Falcon, so that he might be transferred from the
Santa Maria penitentiary to the Eastern prison. The convict won the "battle" with
the heads of those ,jails who want, at.any cost, to keep him in a special cell owing
to his dangerous character. Both Juan Alberto Antolin Lozano and Jose Tanus Trevino
_ filed an appeal for review of protection so that Sicilia Falcon would not be moved
to the Eastern ,jail from which he had already escaped on one occasion. The convict's
defender, Enrique Ostos, stressed that it is unconstitutional for a person to be
- incarcerated in the penitentiary when the ~udgment has not as yet been determined:
- Evidence of this is the fact that the Superior Court of Justice upheld the protec-
tion that was granted Falcon by the second district ~udge of administrative proceed-
ings. The defense attorney explained that they had appealed the 10-year sentence
imposed on the drug trafficker by the third district ~udge of penal proceedings.
The sentence is not definitive, and therefore Alberto should be transferred to the
Eastern jail, he claimed. [Text] [Mexicali LA VOZ DE LA FRONTERA in Spanish 19 May
81 Sec B p 15] 2J09
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COCAINE TRAFFICKING SUSPECT--Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas--The secretary of the 3oint
courr of the firet inetance, Mario Alberto Rodriguez Arevalo, announced yesterday
that a requisition had reached that court from the district court located in Nuevo
Laredo, requesting an investigation of the evidence submitted by the attorneys foY
the presumed drug trafficker, Ben~amin Benavides, of Nuevo Progreao. The aforemen-
tioned document was issued owing to the fact that a moderate amount of cocaine was
discovered in Benavides' wine and liquor establishment,~which caused the authorities
to think that this individual was engaged in drug traf~ficking. Ben~amin Benavides
already has a record for this, which is why he will be investigated with particular
care,something the districL 3udge has requested in order to determine liability.
[Text] [H. Matamoros EL BRAVO in Spanish 16 May 81 Sec B p 5] 2909
OPIUM GUM DISTRIBUTORS CAUGHT--Ciudad Victoria, Tamaul.ipas, 25 May--In a swift inves-
tigative action, State Judicial Police forces dealt a severe blow to the internation-
al drug traffic upon capturing three drug traffickers and seizing 25 million pesos
worth of opium gum. The investigation which culminated in~that definitive victary
for the State Police took place last weekend, when l~kilogram and 200 grams was
confiscated, and three youths arrested while they were attempting to distribute it.
The head of the State.Judicial Police, Lt Col Matias Rodriguez Garcia, announced
that, at the conclusion of the action, the drugs and those responsible were turned
over to the Federal Judicial Police detailed in the Nuevo Laredo border town. The
police official said that the quality of the drugs and their corresponding value
had been determined by a chemist with the Federal Judicial Police itself, who made
a special trip to this capital to analyze them. In the course of the action, the
three drug traffickers were questioned personally by the head of the Federal Judi-
cial Police concerning this crime under the latter's ~urisdiction. [Text] [Nuevo
Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 26 May 81 p 1] 2909
COCAINE, HEROIN, OPIUM SEIZURES--Mexico City, 11 May--This morning, the Federal
Judicial Police seized 10 million pesos worth of cocaine, heroin and opium gum in
various parts of the country. The Judicial Police also succeeded in capturing the
six individuals involved in this drug traff~icking. In the settlement of E1 Salado,
Sinaloa, in the municipality of Nogales, the Judicial Police arrested the drug
trafficker Trinidad Molina Gonzalez, who was engaged in the purchase and sale of
heroin. A total.of 600 grams of this drug were seized from him, an amount that he
was attempting to take to Los Angeles, California, where he would sell it. Subse-
quently, Gabino Aguilar Aguirre, Eudelia Sanchez Islas, Elodia Aguilar Guzman,
Luciano Sanchez Rodriguez and Catalina Pruneda Sanchez were capCured in Piedras
Negras, Coahuila. The latter had in their posaession half a kilogram of pure
cocaine. [Text] [Nuevo Laredo EL DIARIO DE NUEVO LAREDO in Spanish 12 May 8Z Sec A
- p 2J 2909
MARIHUANA, PILLS BURNED--Today, on the grounds of the Health Center, there will be
an incineration of the marihuana and drugs confiscated by the authorities last
month. The administrative head of the Health Center, Roberto Perez Linares, said
that at 1200 hours today high-ranking local government officials, as well as person-
nel Erom the institution, would burn several kilograms of the harmful grass, and
also a large quantity'of pills. He noted that this event would be attended by the
second district ~udge, Cayetano Hernandez Valencia; the third judge, Ricardo Rodri-
guez Villarreal; the coordinator of the Federal Judicial Police, Carlos Aguilar
Gar~a; and the chief of the Federal Judicial Police for the llth Zone, Jose Siordia
Jimenez. Perez Linares also stated that 4 kilograms of marihuana would be burned,
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in addition to 21,800 toxic pills. He stressed that the ma~ority of these drugs
had been seized by the authorities in the common aeEtioris of the town, as well as
from individuals who were attempting to take drugs into the La Loma prison. [Text]
[Nuevo Laredo EL DIARIO DE NU~,VO LAREDO in Spanish 15 May 81 Sec C p 1] 2909
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PERU
DRUG TRAFFICKERS RULE BORDER TOWN
PY122137 Lima EXPRESO in Spanish 4 Jun 81 p 28
[Article by correspondent Nestor Ruiz]
[Text] Iquitos, 3 Jun--The daily sorties which persons armed with submachineguns
and pistols make into thP border town of Caballococha has prompted Iquitos govern-
_ ment officials to ask the appropriate branches of the central government to
establish a military garrison in Caballococha, according to Popular Action
Departmental Committee Secretary General Juan Checley Iberido.
Checkley said: "We have asked for a military garrison of 50 or 60 men to be
established in Caballococha in order to protect the population and stop the
activities of the drug traff ickers who unscrupulously operate in this area.
Caballococha, where approximately 900 families live, is located on the coast of
a picturesque lake ~f the same name which is linked to the Amazon River by means
of a 15-lan long tributary.
Reports which are constantly being received in Iquitos state that these armed
sorties are carried out by persons involved in drug trafficking who use powerful
motorboats or planes. These persons arrive in Caballococha at any time and no
one can stop them because, accordiag to occasional witnesses, the loading or
unloading operations take place under the cover of guns ready to f ire at the least
attempt to ask them to identify themselves.
"The people and the few policemen who are stationed there (three or four civil
guards) live in fear and concern, without doing anything," a traveller who
recently arrived from Caballococha has told EXPRESO.
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PERU
BRIEFS
DRUG TRAFFICKERS--Personnel of the Civil Guard arrested a gang of drug traffickers
known as the Colombians and seized weapons and nearly 30 kg of cocaine paste from
them. The criminals were arrested in (Pago Mimitia), Ayacucho, last Saturday night.
- [PY111822 Lima Radio America in Spanish 1130 GMT 1 Jun 81]
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IRAN
, ANTINARCOTICS HEADQUARTERS FINDS DRUGS IN MANY CITIES
Tehran KEYHAN in Persian 2 Jun 81 p 6
[Article: "During the Past Two Weeks: 1500 Kg of Drugs VJere Dis-
covered in 20 Different Cities'!]
[Text~ With the constant searching of the anti-
narcotics headquarters and law enforcement offi-
cials, more th an 1500 kg of naxcotics were.dis-
covered during the past 2 week s. In this connec-
tion, dozens of smugglers were arrested and handed
over to ,judicial authoriti.es.
- Varamin--The antinarcotics officials of the Islamic revolutionary
court of the city of Varamin discovered and confiscated, in the
course of their operation, a total of 1.14 grams of heroin from 3
~ersons. One of the accused offered officials a bribe of 2 million
rials for his freedom, but the antinax'cotics officials took the
money and attached it to his file.
Quchan--The antinarcotics officials of Quchan discove-red on the
person of 'Askar Javadi, son of Fara~ollah, 250 grams of heroin and
5.05 million rials in cash. He was handed over to ~udicial authori-
ties.
Shemiran--The public relations section of the Office of the
Prosecutor for Antinarcotics announced that after much effort by
officials of the antinarcotics headquarters at Mehrabad Airport and
2 other places in Tehran, they succeeded in finding 1.89 kg of raw .
opium, 6.66 kg of opium, and 5.45 kg of heroin In this connection,
five old and well known smugglers were arrested and one of the
smu~;glers was shot dead.
- Borujerd--The Islamic revolutionary pasdaran army of Borujerd
discovered and confiscated 10.65 kg of opium, 2 revolvers--a J-3 and
a colt, an d 21 bullets with 3 loaders.
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Accordin~ to a report by PARS NEWS AGENCY in this connection, four
persons, Mohsen Shushtari, 'Ali Faryad-Hasanvand, Ahmad Mo'azami-
C~udarzi~ and Rezaqoli Gorzbord, were arrested and handed over to the
I~lamic revolutionary court of Boru~erd.
Mashhad--5earch officials of the second police precinct of Mashhad
discovered and confiscated 8.5 kg of opium.
According to a report by PARS NEWS AGENCY, this opium was discovered
in a Zhiyan automobile with a Mashhad license plate No 62858, driven
Uy Musa Pudineh, son of Mohammad, from Zabol. Also, the pasdaran in
the Islamic revolutionary committee of Talgerd, P~ashhad, discovered
more than 8 kg of heroin and 51 kg of opium in the course of the
past week. According to a report by PARS NEWS AGENCY from Mashhad
in this connection, Sorur Teymuri, son of Qorban, with 17 kg of
opium and 500 grams of heroin; Amir Zolfi, son of Molla Amir, with
7 kg, of opium; Ma~id Mirpish, son of Hoseyn, with 27.1 kg of opium;
and Mohammad Mirpish, son of Khan Mohammad, with 7.8 k g heroin, were
- arrested and all were handed over to the Islamic revolutionary court.
Gonabad--Officials of the gendarmerie of Gonabad discovered 9.7 kg
of opium on a passenger bus.
PARS NEWS AGENCY reports that the opium found in 13 plastic bags had
been hidden in 3 mattresses and was discovered on a passenger bus
going from Zahedan to Mashhad. In thia connection, five passengers--
Naz ar Chakeriyan, son of 'Ali; Hoseyn Khosh-Atefeh, son of 'Ali;
Kobra Sheykh, daughter of Gholam; Banu Khosh-Atefeh, daugtiter of
Dara; and Sadiqeh Makariyan, daughter of Hoseyn--were arrested and
h anded over to ~udicial authorities.
Hamadan--Antinarcotics officials of the police of Hamadan province,
after a series of search and seizure apera~ions, succeeded in cap-
turinp a smuggling ring which had produced and distributed heroin in
Hamadan. In the c ourse of these operations, 2.14 kg of pure heroin
and 6.5 kg of a powder auspected to be heroin were discovered in the
home of 'Ali Ch arkhchi, alias 'Ali Uru~. In the course of the inves-
ti~ation and his confession, six others were also arrested and handed
over to the proper authorities.
Torbat Heydariyeh--Officials of the gendarmerie of Kameh, Torbat
- 1�~eydariyeh, in searching a Peykan automobile headed from Bir~and to
Mashhad yesterday, discovered seven kg of opium th at had been skill-
fully hidden in the gasoline tank of the automobile and was handed
over to the revolutionary court.
Fariman--Accordin~ to a report by the correspondent of VAHED-E
A4ARKAZI-YE KHABAR from Fariman, 28 kg of opium and 800 grams of
heroin were discovered on 2 smugglers, Reza Sa'ed-Hannaneh and
Khoshdel Tayyebi.
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Bo;jnurd--Antinarcotics officials of Bojnurd succeeded in discoverin~
13 , 876 k~; of opium, raw opium, and burned opium, and one colt revol-
ver and 20 bullets. Two person.s were also arrested and handed over
to the revolutionary courts of Bojnord.
The public relations division oP the Islamic revolutionary pasdaran
army of N1ahan, Kerman, announced: The strike forces of the army in
P~Iahan discovered three kg of heroin on a person by the name of
Shir-Mohammad I~Zokhtari of Zahedan.
Also, the antinarcotics strike forc2 succeeded in discovering 35 kg
of opium from Masha' allah Sadeqi in Hutak, central Kerman. And
18.25 lc~ of opium was discovered on narcotics dealers by the Islamic
revolutionary pasdaran of Mahan.
The correspondent of PARS NEWS AGENCY contacted the public relations
office of the Islamic revolutionary pasdaran army of Mahan and was
informed that last ~reek 11.5 kg of opium on 'Azizollah Mohammadi, son
of NIorad; 6.5 kg of opium on Mohammad Gholami, son of ~toseyn; and
250 nrams of opium and 20 grams of raw opium on 'Ali Bokharpur were
discovered and the accused were handed over to the Islamic revolu-
tionary court of Kerman.
Zahedan--The officials of the Kuleh Sangi gendarmerie of Zahedan
discovered 412 kg of raw Afghan opium in 62 bags which had been hid-
den in a Volvo truck by 2 smu~glers. The public relations office of
the gendarmerie of the Islamic Republic of Iran announced with this
report: The carriers of the opium disclosed to officials the names
of the principle owners of the confiscated narcotics in the course of
the inquiry.
t11so, antinarcotics officials of the Sistan-Baluchestan police
department discovered and confisc ated 16.68 kg of h ashish.
PARS NE4JS AGENCY, quoting the public relations office of the Sistan-
Ba.luchestan police department, states that 13 kg of the above-men-
tioned narcotics were found in an unclaimed box around the Zahedan
bus terminals and the rest were discovered on the person of 'Alireza
Chera~hi.
This Ordibehesht [Apr-May], 13.865 kg of heroin, 87.499 kg of raw
o~ium, and 4.t ,12 kg of hashish were discovered and confiscated in
the province of Sistan-Baluchestan. According to PARS NEWS AGENCY,
quotinl; the Islamic revolutionary court of Sistan-Baluchestan, with
these discoveries, 70 narcotics cases are presently under investiga-
tion by this court.
`i'abriz--The pasdaran of the antinarcotics unit of Tabriz, with
headquarters at the Central Committee, discovered and confiscated
3~i0 ~rams of heroin and 750 ~rams of hashish.
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Accordin~; to PARS NEWS AGENCY, the accused is 'Ali Akbar Khodaband~h,
son of Hamdollah, who was sent to the Islamic revolutionary court
alon~ with his completed file.
In Nahavand, 364.5 k~ of opium was found in a truck.
The Islamic revolutionary court of Boru~erd and Nahavand announced:
Antinarcotics officials of the pasdaran army of Nahavand found 364.5
k~; of opium in a watermelon truck. In this connection, a person
named ' Alipanah Karamkhani was arrested and handed over to authori-
ties for legal action.
Antinarcotics officials of the revolutionary court of Kashmar suc-
ceeded in the course of the past 10 days in discovering and confis-
cai~in~ 13 of opium, 16.5 grams of heroin, 200,000 rials in cash,
and opium extractin~ equipment from 5 smugglers.
These five smu~~lers were arrested and handed over to the revolu-
_ tionary court o~' the region.
IChorramabad--The Islamic revolutionary pasdaran army of I{horrarr?abad
reporteci that through the efforts of the brother members of this army,
more than 60 kg of opium and 6 single barrel guns were discovered and
confiscated from 4 smugglers in Khorramabad-who were put throu~h
le~;al procedures.
Tn Norabad and Kuhdasht of Lorestan, 296,5 kg of opium was discovered
and the accused were handed over to proper authorities. PARS NEWS
AGFIVCY, quoting the communication and information unit of the Islamic �
revolutionary pasdaran army of Khorramabad, states that 270 kg of the
above-mentioned opium was discovered in Norabad and the remaining
26.5 kg in Kuhdasht.
~irjand--In Birjand, 1172 k~ of heroin, 4 guns, and 350 bullets were
discnvered on 2 professional smugglers.
PARS rrr~~rs AGENCY reports that because of the efforts of the Islamic
revolutionary pasdaran and officials of the antinarcotics head-
~ qt~arters of IIirjand, the aforementioned smugglers, Gholamreza
Ralchshi, son of 'Ali, and 'Ali Yusofi, son of Khaleqdad, were arres-
ted and handed over to the Islamic revolutionary court.
Kerman--According to a report by the antinarcotics division of the .
Kerm~n police department, in Ordibehesht [Apr-May), 7.5 kg of raw
Afnhan opium and 175.3 grams of heroin were found on 17 persons.
The accused were arrested and handed over to the Islamic revolu-
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The police department of Kerman province announced that according to
renorts of the antinarcotics division of this police department,
7.5 kg of raw Afghan opium was found on 'Abbas Dehqandokht-Koruki,
son of Mohammad, who is a welder, and 70 grams of heroin on 'Ali
Khabir~ son of Reza. The accused were arrested and their case was
sent to the Islamic revolutionary court of Kerman.
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
ASYLUM POLICY SAID TO AID DRUG SMUGGLERS
Frankfurt/Main FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE in German 30 May 81 p 11
[Article by Dr Wolfgang Phillipp: "Asylum Seekers, Drugs and Currency"]
[Text] A drama is currently playing in the FRG, the scope of which has not been
fully recognized. The scene of the action--with focal points in Berlin and Frank-
furt--takes place in the cities and villages across the entire country. Middle
Eastern workers and asylum seekers are the actors. The object of their activity
is the illegal import and distribution of all kinds of narcotics. Tre victims
are countless young people on the other hand, and our entire economy c,~~i the other.
The following facts characterize the situatio.n:
1. In the Bundestag debate about drugs on 25 January 1980 the number of hard drug
addicts, with an upward trend, was estimated at about 80,000. This is made up
principally of heroin addicts (fixers). The disease spreads in snowball fashion,
since addicts often earn money for the stuff by building up a circle of customers
dependent on them--they addict others. A fixer uses about 1 gram of heroin daily
and mdre. So it is plausible that the amount of heroin used in the FRG was esti-
mated in a broadcast by the Hessian Radio to be 30 tons annually.
2. Very few people realize what 30 tons mean in human and economic terms. In
human terms this quantity is the equivalent of the death sentence for tens of thou-
sands of young people. Any other way of presenting it is too optimistic a picture;
the possibilities of therapy are psychologically and itnancially marginal. In
economic terms this is linked with the workers who otherwise pay taxes and other
social contributions and who, in the reverse situation, place a burden on the
social state as premature invalids.
One gram of heroin cost the end consumer about DM 1,000 about 2 or 3 years ago.
Since then the price has been falling steadily, once the job of,importing passed
from the broken up Amsterdam head organization to Turkish workers and asylum seek-
ers (heroin from production in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey). In the
last 2 years numerous applicants for asylum have been arrested who were receiving
social assistance and at the same time making enormous profits fram trafficking
in heroin and other narcotics. Through an "ant trade," organized like an army
general staff, those in control--mostly large Turkish f amilies--import an excess
of very pure heroin, which is sold at "above price." By reducing the price the
drug is made affordable to young people and gets them started on drugs, usually a
path of no return af ter the f irst try.
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3. In addition to heroin, there are other drugs, mostly cocaine and the cannabis
derivatives hashish and mar.ijuana, which are consumed in massive quantities. The
total enc~ consumer turnover in narcorics in the FRG can be estimated to be at
- least DM 10 billion.
4. In spite of the intensive use of police forces, the Middle Eastern importers
_ and dealers in the FRG can operate practically without hindrance. In 1980 300 kg
of heroin was confiscated, almost nothing, 1 percent of the estimated amount
_ peddled. The risk run by the narcotics criminals is proportionally minimal, the
opportunities for prof it are almost unlimited.
5. In terms of tre nation's economy it is of particular significance that the
entire "demand" for heroin, cannabis products and cocaine is importPd fram abroad,
as a consequence renatively affecting the FRG's balan.ce of output and payments and
the exchange rate of the DM. It must be assumed that--ev~en when the banks are
involved--several billions are being transferred in this way, particularly to the
home countries of the criminal inporters. There these sums strengthen the currency
reserves even more than development aid. Because of this link it is hardly to be
expected that such countries will make serious efforts to stop the flow of poison.
6. It is tantamount to dereliction of dutq that those ir. responsible positions at
the national and Land level do not react more strongly to these notorious fadts.
In particular they refuse to see the connection between the right to asylum on the
one side and the impo~t of narcotics on the atherl. Since hero~n smuggling is
usually carried out in small or very small amounts because of the risk at the bord-
ers, at least 30,000 to 50,000 smugglers (ants) are needed each year for 30,000 kg.
In addition there are equally numerous people behind the scenes and accessories
inside the country, as well as the importers and dealers of other types of narcot-
- ics. So it is not, as is still euphemistically asserted in the Bundestag, a
matter of the crimes of a small minority, but emerging mass criminal activity of
the most serious kind, especially among asylum seekers and Turkish workers, and
~ the German police force is,in no way adequate to the task of inethodically eliminat-
ing it.
It is indefensible, under these circumstances, to cultivate a legal situation
which has just compelled the Constitutional Court to further limit the practice of
deportin~ fake asylum seekers. Rather, the law pertaining t.o asylum and aliens
must be expc;sed as a significant contributory cause of the narcotics catastrophe.
It is vital--as many experts, including the vice president of the Constitutional
Court have demanded--to limit the basic right to asylum by a proviso to the 1aw.
The legal state is obviously being dangerously overextended when tens of thousands
of individual cases are turned over to the courts for a decision, although accord-
ing to the government's information, for example, in the allied NATO country of
Turkey there is no political persecution in the sense of the Basic Law, and it i~
certain that the courts~will decide in this sense after 3 to 7 years residence.
The resulting harm to the nation's economy (court costs, housing problems, social
assistance, unemployment support, loss of currency, damage fram the narcotics
trade) is enormous, quite apart from the psychological effects on the German pop-
ulation. What kind of Basic L~aw is it (containing anarchic elements), of which
one can only hope desperately that it will noY. be involved by milliona of foreign-
- ers (theoretically it could be half of Asia)? All other nations grant a5ylum
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only according to the measure of their productivity and do not contemplate simply
subjecting themselves to autonomously drafted resolutions on the immigration of
- countless foreigners. No one has thought of reproaching these countries with "in-
humanity." The legislator's obligations to his own nation take precedence. This
is not to say anything against foreigners or the granting of asylum as such.
Whether and to what extent asylum should be granted can not be left for the courts
alone to decide. The elected parliament must be able to express its opinion,
with a simple majority, but it is being prevented from doing so by the present
Basic Law solution, which is unique in the world.
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ICELAND
JUSTICE MINISTER DETAILS NARCOTICS SITUATION TO ALTHING
Reykjavik MORGUNBLADID in Icelandic 23 May 81 p 24
[Text] An Zncreased Supply of Drugs on the Icelandic Market?
Sigurlaug Bjarnadottir pointed out off the agenda in the Althing yesterday
evening that the supply of narcotica was on the upswing and that the
diatribution of druga was becoming an unscrupulous "way of life" involving
billions of kronur. She asked the minister of justice about the drug
situation today and the government's reaction to the curae in the past and
in the future. The following is Minister of Juatice Fridjon Thordaraon's
_ reply.
"When the use of narcotics t,ecame wideapread in Europe and in Scandinavian
countries between the years 1960-1.970, the proapects were that the drugs would
- also apread to Iceland, although it would occur at a Yater time. The old
opium law was amended in 1968 to include other drug.s. In 1970 the poeaession
of narcotica became puniahable by law, and the acale of puniehment was
increased. Around that time, i.e. 1969-1970, the influx of narcotics started.
"The Reykjavik Police and other interested groups, especially Che Kiwania Club
Katla, acquired a dog to sniff out hashiah in 1971. The dog was used until
1977 when it was killed. The search was auccessful, eapecially in the
beginning, and the presence of the dog engendered a great deal of awareness
about prevention. The miniatry of juatice sent a letter to all the chiefa
of police in the country encouraging increased cooperation, police surveillance,
and narcotics monitoring. In the beginning of the year, two police officers
were put in charge of narcotics problema only. The number of police officers
who work in this area has gradually been increased, and now a special
department in charge of thia matter has been aet up under the chief of police
in Reykjavik. One police officer in Keflavik is also in charge of thia
problem only.
~ "In 1970 the government decided to aet up a task force, and in 1972 when it
finished its work, the govPrnment decided to set up another task force to
coordinate and organize measures on behalf of the government. The group,
consisting of represen*ativea from the juatice, health, education and
finance ministries, was set up again last year.
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"A considerable amount of narcotica wae discovered in 1972, and many of
the cases were unraveled. The minister of juatice at the time, Olafur
Johanneseon, decided to work on a project to aet up a special court to hear nar-
cotics cases. Law 52 of 1973 eatablished the poeition of a criminal judge
for narcotica casea. The arguments for this epecial court are eelf-
evident.
"There are a great many Icelandera who have been living abroad, especially
in Denmark and Sweden, who make their living by buying narcotics in the
southern countries or in the Netherlands and then selling it in Denmark
and Sweden and even to some extent in Iceland. A number of these people
have become addicted to stronger drugs, and their arrival in this country
entails a great danger. Quita a few of them have been caught and sentenced
and have been in prisons abroad and in thia country.
"There is great concern among the members of the ministry about these
developmenta. Last year, the chief of police in Reykjavik received a letter
calling for propcaals to bolster the police force and to step up narcotics
safeguards. In his letter of July last year, the chief of police submitted
various pronosals in which he pointed out the need for close-knit cooperation
between the police and customa authorities. He mentioned special courses
in these matters that have been given and that will be given by the State's
Police School. Furthermore, he mentioned the need to send police officers
abr.oad to become acquainted with the tactica of foreign police.
"Concerning the reinforcement of the activitiea of the police administration's
narcotics department he suggeate~i the following:
1. 'A peraon trained in the law be appointed as a representative to
_ administer the investigation of the cases-.' .
"The representative's position was authorized, and just before the end o~ last
year, Olafur Jonsson, the former customa superintendent who had also worked
as a representative for the chief of police for several years, was appointed
_ to the post.
2. 'The number of police officers be increased by three.'
"Budget funds were granted for three additional people in the work force of
thP narcotics department.
3, 'One or two dogs be trained to aearch for narcotics.'
~ "Early this year a dog trained to search for narcotics was purchased in
Denmark. Both the dog and the police officer in charg,s of him received
trai~ing with the Danish Police. Due to quarantine laws, the dog has not
yet been used, but we will not have to wait much longer.
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4. 'Addirional equipment be acquired.'
"In his letter of 20 May 1981, the chief of police epecifies whaC equipment
he considera necessary. The miniatry will meet those requirements in the ne~t
- future as well as it can. Asgeir wae given this judicial position in May
1973 and was later appointed. One legal representative worked in the
court from 1973 to 1977,when permission for two representatives was secured.
Moreover, a secretary has been working, mostly part-time.
"A division of police officers has not been included in the court as the
judge is not in fa~~or of it. He hae backed hia opinion with the following
arguments:
1. It is inappropriate for a judge to be in daily command of police officers.
2. Thpir status and the range of their tasks are vague.
3. It was to be expected that extenaive investigations would be conducted
involving a large number of suspecta in many juriadictions. It is probable that
the existence of auch a�police division would make the necessary and
close-knit cooperation among ~genciea more complicated.
4. ThP establishment of auch a police division would.probably leave it
isolated and work against the spontaneous initiative and responsibility
of the various rural district chi.efa and mayors. ~
"The court is loc~ted zt the Reykjavik Police Department. Thia close
connection with the chief of po.lic~'s narcotics department has been beneficial
in many ways, auch as the avoidance of redundancy regarding minor
tranagressors of the law.
"The nur:ber cf narcotics cases hae increased eteadily. The number of
peraonnel at the Attorney General's Office had to be increased to handle
additional work. Most of the casea are brought to a settlement, and the
people involved are users, buyera, minor aellers and to some extent
middlemen who diatribute the narcotics from smugglers and major distributors.
From May 1973 to November 1977, 37 people had been aentenced, 20 of them
to unconditional terms in prison. .
"The most comcrion drug that has been smuggled in over the years has been
hashish, that is, cannabis derivatives. In 1973-74 some LSD was smuggled
- in, but there is little of that today. The amphetamine traffic is increasing
and cocaine as well.
"The trend is clearly similar in this country to what it is abroad, a gradual
increase. It starts with hashish, and then the stronger narcotics follow.
Only small quantities of opium, heroin and morphine have arrived in this
country so far, but indicationa are that these druga will be coming in before
too long.
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"Experience hae ehown that many tools are needed to uncover narcotics
cases.
"A plan has been under way for some time in the ministry to increas~ information
onthe harmful effecta of drugs, eapecially among young people. Clearly, a major
effort is required in this regard, and aoon the task force on the narcotics
problem will complete a plan for a publicity campaign."
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~rEi,Artn
JUSTICE MINISTER'S REPORT SHOWS SERIOUSNESS OF DRUG PROBLEM
Reykjavik MORGUNBLADID in Icelandic 23 May 81 p 22 .
[Editorial: "Iceland Threatened by Drug Market"]
[Text] Sigurlaug Bjarnadottir addresaed a few queations in the Althing
~ to Miniater of Justice Fridjon Thordareon, regarding the increased supply
of narcotice in the country. The minister replied among other things that
_ a group of Icelanders who had resided in Sweden and Denmark, "macie their
living by buying narcotica in the aouthern countriea or the Netherlands and
and then aelling it in Denmark or Sweden and even aome of it in Iceland. Some
of these people are addicted to stronger druge, and their arrival in this country
entails a great danger," the miniater said.
In light of the information furnished by the Althing member and the minister,
it is clear that Iceland is moving into the danger zone of the narcotics
market, which ie one of the most dreadful scourges in the world today. Every
educational and police measure muet be adopted to halt thia trend, and social
organizations in the country muat mobilize society's ailent majority for an
organized crusade against this evil. Prevention ia better than cure; a strong
and conaolidated public opinion along with draetic government measures can
avert the danger to the nation, at least to a great extent.
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NORWAY
CUSTOMS REPORTS HASHISH SEIZURES INCREASE BY A THIRD
Oslo ARBEIDERBLADET in Norwegian 20 May 81 p 2
[Text] During the first 4 months of the year, 35 kilograms of hashish have been
confiscated by Customs. This is a third more than the same period last year.
= Nevertheless: the co~nfiscated material makes up at the most 4 percent of what
conCinually floods in over the border. This means that this year over 2.6 tons of
hashish will come in to Norway. Tha ferry cities of Kristianssand, Larvik and Oslo
are seen to be the "hashish channels" into Norway.
"We do not deny that we are afraid of the coming summer, even if we feel we are
better equipped than ever before," said the chief advisor, Vidar Vestereng, and
advisor Oddvsr Saether, in the control section of the Directorate of Customs and
Excise Tax, in a conversation with ARBEIDERBLADET. They confirm police experience:
more and mare hashish is streaming into the country, but there is also an increase
in stronger drugs. So far this year, 26 grams of heroin have been confiscated.
During the same period last year, about 1.5 grams were confiscated. A gram of
heroin can cost about 10 thousand droner on Che street in Oslo.
"Norway~ is in an unfortunate geographical position. Our long bordere and many points
of entry ^~.^.!ce us into a relatively open couatry. We know we cannot stop the flow of
drugs, but we are trying to slow it down," Vestereng and Saether said.
The activity of the drug section of Custome has been significantly increased.
Thirteen special groups with dogs are spread over the country. Each group has both
male and female members and a dog trainer. In addition, a contact net of about 70
- persons has been trained in othar sections of Customs, so that they can be alert
to drugs in the sh3pment of goods.
"One result of this was the drug confiscation in, for example, holl.owed-out ornaments
from countries where the drugs are produced. If an ornament comes from Thailand,
we want to do more with it than collect duty and excise tax."
~ut the customs people are fighting a hopeless battle with reality. Each year they
are faced with: 2 million goods shipments, 193,000 trailers, 31,000 entering air-
- craft, 32,000 ship arrivals, 12 million travelers, and 50 million letters.
"We know that what we confiscate is only the tip of a huge iceberg. If we get
- 3 to 4 percent, that is good, also according to international Customs standards.
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We regard it as a sort of war where the front is always changing. Last year we ran
a control operation on letters from India and made a few coafiscations. This year
we have not made similar confiacations in this area. If we make an effort in one
plgce, the smugglers have to find other ways."
"What methods of smuggling are used ~nost today?"
"We arrest more and more people with the drugs on their person. If they are strong
drugs, such as heroin, then of course this is a fortune that the smuggler wants to
have within r.each. It is hidden in the rectum and the vagina."
Last year, the customs people made 2,000 personal checks in which the official
orders the one checked to strip off all his clotihes.
"We expect this to increase to 3,000 this year. But we do not immediately check
inside their bodies. The police, legal measures, and medicaL personnel are necessary
in such cases," Saether and Vestereng said.
"I would characterize the development as alarming, and I think that the drug flow
into Norway is perhaps our society's greatest problem," Customs and Excise Tax
Director Jens Sterri said to ARBEIDERBLADET.
"In 1977 we confiscated 16 kilograms of hashish. In 1980 we took in 55.4 kilograms!
It is nothing to write about in the newspapers if we take in 200 to 300 grams of
hashish. It has become so usual. The ferry ports are the problem areas of fore-
most importance, but air traffic has also become more and more important for us."
- "What can be done?"
"We are dealing with a comprehensive social problem. Neither we nor the police
can solve it, even though we can certainly improve. In my opinion, it must become
more forbi~iding to smuggle drugs. The smuggler must know that he or she is really
taking a risk and that there are consequences. I am very much in favor of raising
the penalty for serious narcotics crimes to 15 years," Sterri said.
He empliasizes that the problem with drugs is also inextricably bound up with social
attitudes. The schools, the mass media and all organizations have the responsibility
to take it seriously. "In this connection, I think it is good that we have so few
complaints. We will undress 2,000 to 3,000 this year and of course by far the
ma~ority of them will have no drugs on them. When we explain why we are doing this,
we find that people understand," the director for customs and excise tax said.
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NORWAY
DEFENSE COMMAND WANTS TO TIGHTEN PENALTIES FOR DRUG USE
Oslo AFTENPOSTEN in Norwegian 9 May 81 p 10
[Textj (Knut Falchenberg) The Defense Command will recommend a strengthening of the
two "narcotic groups" that are tryiag to elimiaate the misuse of drugs. Even if
misuse by soldiers seems to have increaeed in recent years, it is felt that the
_ problem has increased even more rapidly in civiliaa yout~'i outside the service.
This summer the defense medical section will begin a new study to find the causes
of the misuse.
E ach of the two "narcotic groups" in the defenae department has iCs part of the ~
- country, and consists of two officers, two policemen, and at least one dog trainer.
Last year the southern Norway group was involved in 305 cases of which further
investigation revealed 68 definite cases of illegality. These cases are sent to
the prosecuting attorney. The group has confiscated 30 small quaatitiea of drugs,
mainly hashish and mari~uana. Since it was establiahed in 1978, the group has only
come upon one case of heroin.
In northern Norway, all 3.n all 28 thoroughly investigated cases were transferred
to the prosecuting attorney, after 180 investigations had been made. In this part
of the country, 16 confiscations of mild drugs were made in 1980, according to
statiatics.
Some soldiers were watched if their civilian past gave rise to suspicion, and last
year 46 cases were transferred between the north-south groups if the soldiers were
transferred to a naw post.
The head of the personnel section in headquarters, Colonel Heming Synnebag, says
that in spite of the uncertainty 3n the statistics of recant years, it is believed
that drug abuse among snldiers is rising. Nevertheless, it is believed that the
increase outside the military is greater.
The situation has recently been discuased with the narcotic groups in which
individual manmbers have had up to 300 hours overtime this year. Headquarters wants
to ease the presaure of work by first of all gettiag office help and work-saving
~ technical equipment such as, for example, radio equipment. Thi.s will soon ba
recommended to defense leadership. A large part of the groups' activities involve
instructior..
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The defense Medical Corps will start an investigation Chis summer in which randomly
selected soldiers will be interviewed personally. Profeasor Arne Sund in the
psychiatric section of the Medical Corps emphasized to AFTENPOSTEN that the inves-
tigation will not be used in any way against the eoldiere.
Neither will the data end up on the military record of health card. It will oniy
be uaed anonymously in research.
Using the means available, the recruits will be fallowed during their whole period
of service and for a time after discharge. An effort will be made to find out
what kind of drugs (alcQhol or narcotics) are used, and to what extent.
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NORWAY
- PARLIAMENT APPROVES LONGER SENTENCES FOR DRUG OFFENSES
Oslo AI'TENPOSTEN in Norwegian 27 May 81 p 3
[Text] "It is a form of misplaced humanity and underestimation of the seriousness
of the situation not to use the law's heaviest guaishment, 21 years, for the worst
of the drug offenders," the Chairman of the Storting's Justice Committee, Jan P.
Syse (Conservative), said yesterday in the lower house. Syse sharply ciiticized the
socialistic ma~ority which adopted 15 years as the most severe penalty. Minister
of Justice, B~orn Skau, did not rule out a possible increase in the penalty later,
after the penal law council and other appellate authorities have had their say.
While the Conservative Party, Christian People's Party and the Center Party,--
- supported by Liberal Party--voted to make the highest penalty for drug criminals
21 years, the ma~ority in the lower house adopted 15 years as the penalty. In addi-
tion, there was agreement in the lower house to remove the life penalty, and the
majority, all excluding SV, [Socialist Left Party] agreed that the law's highest
penalty should be 21 years. SV wanted 15 years here. The Conservative Party, the
Christian People's Party and the Center Party also had the majority against them
when their proposal that persons released on probation cou].d be arrested for up to
7 days if this is necessary to prevent illegal acts was voted down.
The Chairman of the Justice Committee, Jan P. Syse (Conservative Party), as well as
the spokesman for the matter, the Center Party's Ole Gabriel Ueland, argued
strongly for the non-socialist parties' desire for 21 years to be the highest
penalty for the worst drug offenders. The Christian People's Party's Jorgen
Sonstebo made it clear that he considered the sale of drugs to be the most serious
crime today, and did not hesitate to call those involved in this business "pro-
fessional murders," who will go to any lengths to make money. The Liberal Party's
Odd Einar porum followed this up and said that he had no scruples in using severe
methods with such criminals.
The main spokesman for the Labor Party, Gunn Vigdis Olsen-Hagen, called the non-
_ socialist parties' position an extreme bid at an auction that the LaUor Party could
not go along with. He also praiaed the government's efforts to deal with the
drug problem, and reminded the non-socialist par~ties that it wss the arbeiderparti
suggestion that propoaed the elevation of the present 10 years for drug crimes to
15 years.
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Minister of Justice B~orn Skau warned against the non-socialist parties' suggestion,
among other things becasus such a strong emphasis on punishment can easily give the
impression that a 21 year penalty will solve the drug problem better than ~ 15 or 10
year one, Just the same, the ~usti~e minist~r was not averse to the law's most
severe penalty being used against the worst drug crimes, but in this case the law
must make it clear that these crimea are in a different category. The cabinet
therefore found it reasonable that the Crimiaal Law Council and other higher
authorities evaluate the question.
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NORWAY
PAPER SAYS NEW MAXIMUM DRUGS SENTENCES ARE T00 SHORT
Oslo AFTENPOSTEN in Norwegian 27 May 81 p 2
[Editorial]
[Text] Some types of crimes are in a special class and are more serious than others.
These are the ones that endanger the lives of others and that often have fatal
consequences. They qualify for the 1aw's highest punishment, 21 years in prison.
With r_;,e knowledge we have today about the drug problem, it would be natural in our
opinion to relegate the large importers of drugs and those who deal in them to this
category of criminals. There is no doubt at all that many of the large and powerful
ones in this area who stay cynically in Che background and rake in enormous amounts
of money cause more suffering and more fatalities thatt murderers who are sentenced
to the law's maximum penalty. Even if, of course, it is difficult to prove
concretely a11 the consequences of such a business.
We have the feeling that there is basically not so much political.disagreement about
these things. At any rate not so deep as yesterday's debate in the Storting would
indicate. We find that it is regrettable that so much prestige should be invested
in stopping the non-socialist suggestion of applying the law's maximum penalty for
the worst drug offenders. Such a change in the law would namely have been a
natural indication on the part of the Storting, an indication that could have
stressed the seriousness that surrounds the sCruggle against drugs.
Ttie present suggestion comes from Professor.Anders Bratholm and it was issued in a
_ letter to the Storting's ~ustice committee at the end of April. And it should have
been possible for members of the Labor Party to find a more construczive reaction
to this initiative than yesterday's cry of "cximinally political overkill policy"
And a following "go ahead" for those who say that imprisonment is actually without
significance.
We noticed that Justice Minister Bjorn Skau said that it was still possible that it
was right to make drug crimes one of the very few cases in which the moet severe
penalty is imposed. But the ~ustice minister had, among other things, the ob,jection
to the non-socialist proposal that it did not clearly differentiate the very serious
crimes.
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The wording of the paragraph in question has also been met with a certain skepticism,
by the way, from other legal authorities who have expressed themse?ves on it.
'I'he cabinet minister says that the law is generally not good enough as it applies
to drug crimes. Therefore we must take the time to work out a well thought-out
proposal. There can be something in this. And the main responsibility to see that
this happens lies with Mr. Skau himself.
But in this session, the Storting cuuld have determined that the big drug criminals
risk the law's highzst penalty--and then improved the details in the aext session.
Instead, we got a heated and somewhat confusing debate with a resolution--passed
by a small socialist ma~ority--that 15 years imprisonment is sufficiet~t.
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NORWAY
- BRIEFS
BIGGEST BERGEN DRUGS CASE--A 30-year-old man from Rogland, who is suspected of being
the head man in one of the biggest drugs cases that has appeared in Bergen, was
sentenced to 8 years in prison Friday in the Gulating court of appeals. This is
the most severe punishment ever given in Bergen for the breaking of the so-called
professional paragraph in the criminal law, which gives a sentence of 15 years.
It is also one of the most severe sentences given in Nonaay for selling hard drugs.
A 31-year-old man and a 27-year-old woma.n from Bergen were both sentenced to 4
years' imprisonment according to the same paragraph. The sentences were unanimous.
The three convicted persons asked for a stay of execut3.on of the sentence. The
prosecutor, District Attorney Svein Simmonnaes, asked for imprisonmpnt of 10, 6,
_ and 5 years respectively. [Text] [Os1o AFTENPOSTEN in Norwe;ian 16 May 81 p 9]
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TURKEY
BRIEFS
FOUR DRUG SELLERS SENTENCED--Four suspects being tried for selling hashish in
bulk, have been sentenced to 50 years in prison at hard labor and fined 2,063,082
lira. In hearings in the ~nd Crirainal Court, the bench sentenced suspect Cumali
Canpolat to 8 years and 4 months, and Ibrahim Kunduru and Murat Ganidagli each to
16 years and 8 months of prison at hard labor and fined them each [the latter two]
- 1,030,833 lira. The bench furthermore decided to sentence suspect Sami Ucanefe
to 8 years and 4 months in prison and to fine him 1,416 lira on the same charge.
Mehmet Iltemis was released due to insufficient evidence. According to informa-
tion obtained, security forces on 8 March 1980 seized 6.185 kilos of powder
hashish [toz esrar] in a house in Adana's Sakirpasa quarter following a tip. At
this time, Cumali Canpolat, Ibrahim Kunduru, Murat Ganidagli, Yunus Saud Ucanefe
and Mehmet Iltemis were arrested. [Text] [Adana YENI ADANA in Turkish 29 May 81
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