JPRS ID: 9896 WORLDWIDE REPORT NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS

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6 August 1981
Worldwide Re ort
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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
(FOUO 36/81)
FBIS FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE
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~ JPRS L/9896
~ 6 August 1981
WORLDWIDE REPORT
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NARCOTICS AND DANGEROUS DRUGS
~ (FOUO 36/81)
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~ CONTENTS
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~ ASIA
HONG KONG
; Briefs
_ Major Drug 12aid 1
~ Heroin Seized 1
i Drugs Sealed in rish 1
~ P AKIS TAN
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~ Pakistan Emerges as Heroin Center
I (John Schidlovsky; BUI.LETIN TODAY, 16 Jul 81) 2
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i Charas Worth 11 Crore Seized
i (MORNING NEWS, 19 Jul 81) 3
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; Karachi Hashish Haul 5
PHILIPPINES
Briefs
Gangsters Use Tourist Spot 6
Dollar Black Market 6
Marihuana Farm Raided in La Trinidad 6
THAILAN D
UN-lhai Crop Substitution Effort Continues
(SIAM RAT, 26 May 81) 7
Opium Caravan Guards Shoot Police
(DAO SIAM, 11 Apr 81) ...............................a............ 8
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Hong Kong Tr.,fticker Arrested Enroute to PRC
(TAWAiv SIAM, 12 Apr 81) 9
- Lao-Thai Marihuana Trafficker Cooperation Noted
(TAW~u~ SIAM, 13 Apr 81) 10
CANADA
Drug Trial of 17 May Set World Record for Length
(THE GLOBF AND MAIL, NATIONAL EDITION, lQ Jun 81) 1~
Briefs 12
Drug Deale r Jailed
LATIN AME RI CA
B AHAMAS
New Defense Force Craft Will Aid Antidrug Effort 13
(Athena Damianos; ~iE TRIBUNE, 22 Jun 81)
BOLIVIA
Government Approves New Antidrug Trafficking Plan 14
(PRESEN CIA, 11 Jul 81)
B RAZIL
European Cocaine Connection Kingpin Arrested in Rio
(0 GLOBO, 9 Jul 81~ 16
Chilean Trafficker Arrested With Cocaine
(0 GLOBO, 11 Jul 81) 18
~ Seizure of IS D, Cocaine Reported 2Q
(JORNAL AO BRASIL, 11 Jul 81)
Marihuana Seized en Route to Suriname, Route Revealed
(0 ESTADO DE SAO PAULO, 2Q Jun 81) 22
Briefs 23
_ Peruvian Trafficker Arrested 23
Pernambuco Marihuana Use Data 24
Escaped Trafficker Arrested 24
Trafficker Arrested biith Marihuana 24
Rio Woman Trafficker Arrested 24
Trafficker Arrested at School
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JAMAICA
Briefs 25
Plane Smuggling Attempt
MEXICO
State Judicial Police Testify Against Marihuana Traffic'.cers
- (EL BRAVO, 1 Jul 81) 26
Zhree Traffickers Captured, Heroin Seized
(LA VOZ DE LA FRONTERA, 25 Jun 81) 28
Cocaine Traffickers Captured in Ciudad Acuna
(EL DIARIO DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS, 14 Jul 81) 29
Six Heroin, Qpium Gum Traffickers Captured
(EL SOL DE SINALOA, 30 Jun 81) 30
Antidrug Campaign Resu lts in Sinaloa Area for June Reported
(EL SOL DE SINALOA, 4 Jul 81) 31
Former Customs Officia? Caught Supplying Marihuana
(EL DIARIO DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS, 3Q Jun 81)...........o...���~���� 32
IAng-Sought Marihuana Trafficker Captured
(EL MANANA, 30 Jun 8(1) 33
Woman Caught Smuggling Pills Into Jail
(EL DIARIO DE PIEDRAS NEGRAS, 22 Jun 81) 34
B riefs 35
Four Heroin Traffickers Caught
Seized Marihuana Burned 35
Traffickers Given Early Release 35
Police Claim Trafficking Reduced 36
~ Heroin Zaboratory Discovered 36
: Dr.ug Elimination Results Cited 36
~ Marihuana Plantations Destroyed 37
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Gendarmerie Reports Massive Narcotics Discoveries 3~
(KEYHAN, 16 Jul 81)
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SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
UJIBOUTI
Security Fa~rce Officers Punished for Diversion of Qat
(LA NATION DE DJIBOUTI, 9 Jul 8?) 39
WEST EUROPE
AUS TRIA
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Cacaine Smugglers Arrested
FI N LAN D
~1ew Controlled Substances Law Restricts Irbre Drugs
(UUSI SUOMI, 2 Jul 81)........~ 41
Briefs
Pharmacy Theft Arrests 43
SWEDEN �
Loan Authority Stops Funds '~'o Students Tied to Drugs
(Barbro Westman Tullus; SVENSKA DAGBLADET, 6 Jul 81)............ 44
Prison Officials Worried About Drugs Problem
_ (Willy Silberstein; SVENSKA DAGB LADET, 3 Jul 81) 46
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HONG KONG
' BRIEFS
MAJOR DRUG RAID--Hongkong, July 12 (AP)--Cu~toms officers raided a drug syndicates
storeroom Saturday and seized heroin worth about US$2 milli�on, customs officials
reported Sunday. A spokesman said a man and his wife were arrested in the raid on
an apar.tment, and 12 kilograms (26.4 paunds) of heroin base and 7 kilograms (15.4
pounds) of prepared heroin were found. Officers also raided another apartment,
where they found a small quantity of heroin and arrested another woman. Customs
Investigation Bureau Asst. Supt. David Zbng, who supervised the operations, said
he believed ir.. flats were the storage Point and sample zoom of one of Hongkong's
biggest 3rug syndicates. The seizure was the second major drug haul by CIB offi-
cers in three days. Four Thais and three Chinese iaere arrested en Thursday when
customs men swoAped in on a Thai-operated drug syndicate and seized :.arcotics worth
about US$800,000. Tong said customs officers had confiscated 170 kilograms (374
pounds) of narcotics so far this year, compared to 173 kilograms (380.6 pounds)
seized for the whole of 1980. [Text] [Taipei CHINA POST in English 13 Ju1 81 p 6~
HEROIN SEIZED--Hongkong, July 9(AP)--Customs officers Thursday arrested seven men,
including four Thais, in connection with the seizure of 9.2 kilograms of heroin
worth about four mill~.on Hongkong dollars (about 800,000 U.S. dollars). Police
said the four Thais and a Hongkong Chinese were nabbed at Hongkong's Kaitak Inter-
national Airport for attempting to smuggle 3.7 kilograms of heroin into this Brit-
- ish colony. In another separate operation, customs officers raided an apartment
in the colony's twin city of Kowloon and seized 5.5 kilograms of heroin. They also
arrested two Hongkong Chinese. The names of the suspects were not disclosed. They
a�re to be charged later with trafficking in dangerous drugs. Police said the two
operations have resulted in the smashing of an international syndicate involved in
smugglir~g drugs into Hongkong. [TextJ (Taipei CHINA POST in English 7 Jul 81 p 6]
DRUGS SEALED IN FISH--Hongkong, Suly 11 (AP)--A woman from Singapore was charged
with possession of dangerous druqs Friday night after she was arrested for carry-
ing salted fish containing heroin, police said Saturday. The spokesman said Chu
Po King, 42, was about to board a flight to London and Burssels on Wednesday when
she was searched by detectives. [Text] [Taipei CHINA POST in English 14 ,7u1 81 p 6]
CSO: 5300/4956
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~ PAKISTAN
PAKISTAN EMERGES AS HEROIN CENTER
Manila BULLETIN TODAY in English 16 Jul 81 p 3
~Article by John Schidlovsky~
- ~Text) Islamabad, Pakistan--Once they used to come for simple ~leasures, hashish,
marijuana or even mountain trekking, Bt~t today, many of the young western
travelers heading north from this capital are here for heroin.
The attraction is obvious. Pakistani drug dealers have amassed the world's largest
stockpile of illegal opium and heroin. Most of those who go the country's north-
west mountains these days go in search of quick profits.
So abundant is the opium in Pakistan--more than 350 tons are believed to be kept
in private stocks--that this nation is now said to have far surpassed the legendary
Golden Triangle in Southeast Asia as the world's main source of illegal opiates.
Along with Afghanistan and Iran, its politically troubled neighbors to the west,
Pakistan forms what interna.tional drug officials now call the Golden Crescent--a
new starting point for the world's heroin route to the cities o~ Europe and North
Atnerica.
There is nothing surprising about Pakistan's production of opium, a narcotic
obtair~ed from the pod of the opium poppy plant that grows abundantly in the
country's western mountains. What is new is the sheer quantity of raw opium
now being stored, as well_ as the growth of backroom "laboratories" that process
opium into heroin.
About 15 of these tiny labs have sprung up in Pakistan's wild northwest frontier
province. In open bazaars just a few hours drive �rom this capital, a traveler
can easily buy a kilogram (about 2 pounds) of high-quality heroin for about $5,000.
Smuggled into the United States, that same heroin will fetch about $250,000.
CSO: 5300/4957
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PAKISTAN
CHARAS WORTH 11 CROP.E SEIZED
Karachi MORNING NEWS in English 13 Jul 81 p 1
[Text] Charas w~orth Rs. 11 crore was seized by the Drug Enforcement Cell of the
Pakistan Customs from the conveyor belt rollers being smuggled out to a party in
Rotterdam.
The 1,100 kilograms of hashis [as printed] had been cleverly concealed in the empty
rollers of the conveyor belt.
Accused Mohanunad Naeem, who was not arrested till our going to the Press, imported
hashis from the tribal area of the NWFP and had concealed it in over 500 conveyor
belt rollers.
The consignment was still under examination by an appraiser when the staff of the
Drug Enforcement Cell under the directive of Syed Shuja Shah, Assistant Collector,
- seized the contraband consignment and recovered a huge quantity of hashish.
Two persons namely Syed Akhtar Sajjad Jaffery and Syed Ahsan Zaidi who w~ere clear-
ing and forwarding agents of the main accused Mohamanad Naeem have been arrested by
the Pakistan Customs.
Syed Ahsan Saidi, one of the clearing and forwarding agents, told Morning t~~ews that
he was hired by Mohammad Naeem, a fugi.i:ive accused for shipanent of the cont;~aband
consignment to Rotterdam. For this j~~b he had been promised a payment of Rs. four
lakh by the accused.
He also said that he had been employed by the accused on the recommendation of an-
other clearing agent who is now in Saudi Arabia for performing Umra.
Probe
Mr. Mubeen Ahsan, Collector of Customs, also told Morning News that a probe has
also been initiated to ascertain whether some appraisement staff were in collusion
with the smugglers of the contraband hashish.
He said that if somebody from his staff was found guilty, stringent action will be
taken against them.
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It may be mentioned that Malik Mobin Ahmad I~an, Superintendent of i:he Drug Enforce-
ment Cell of the Customs, who seized this consignment, had earlier in 1973 smashed
an international gang of smugglers and had a record seizure of 12 tons illicit
charas in Karachi.
He had been awarded a gold medal by the Drug Enforcement authori�~ties of the USA
for his distinguished performance~
CSO: 5300/4626
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PAKISTAN
BRIEFS '
KARACHI HASHISH HAUL--Over 1,100 kilograms of Hashish intended for shipment to Rot-
t~rdam by a ship s.s. Mount Sanana was seized by the Customs officials in Karachi
vesterday. According to an official press release on a tip off that contraband
'i:.haras' is being smuggled out under unique guise of 'Coneyor belt rollers' being
smuggled out to a party in Rotterdam, in Netherlands, raiding parties were orqan-
ised to seize contraband consignment on examination it was found that~l errinside
over 1,100 kilograms of 'Hashish' cleverly concealed in the "empty
of frames of the conveyer belt~. Initial investigations were conducted which re-
vealed that the Pakistani smugglers were working under the guise of regusaase~sr'
ters and were registered with the Chief Cont~~lYegistrationtNoan204
169� The con-
Sunny and Marshal International, having expo ~~unt Sanana',
_ traband consignment was intended for shipment to Rotterdam bY galereno (Italy),
which was to leave Karachi port on 20-7-81 for ~rope via Bombay,
Sete (France), to Antwerp (in Belgiiun), from where the container containing the
~ contraband consignment was to be transferred imto smugglers boats for delivery to
M/s J. Van Den Oz Trading Co., at Rotterdam. [Text] [Karachi BUSINESS RECORDER in
English 19 Jul S1 p 1]
CSO: 5300/4626
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PH IL IPP INE S
BRIEFS
GANGSTERS USE TOURIST SPOT--Puerto Galera, a tourist spot in occidental Mindoro,
is being used by for~~ign gangsters as a base for illegal traffickin~ of drugs.
Immigrati